Development & Research Technology Specialist
Caterpillar Inc.
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Job summary
Caterpillar Inc. in Mossville, IL, is seeking a Development & Research Specialist to advance electrification technologies by overseeing laboratory validation of high‑voltage systems and supporting integration efforts.
You will coordinate projects, manage vendors and contractors, ensure lab safety, and build prototypes while evaluating designs for feasibility and compliance. This role requires strong technical leadership and collaboration with internal teams and external partners.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical or related engineering field.
- Site electrification experience and power electronics background.
- Knowledge of Power Electronic Controls Systems and CANape Software.
Responsibilities
- Tests products, analyzes data, and modifies designs to meet specs.
- Provides technical support to internal partners and suppliers.
- Integrates components, ensuring compliance with requirements.
- Builds and tests prototypes; evaluates design feasibility and safety.
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Job description
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Engineering
Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions (E+ES) Division will focus on delivering advanced electrified power train, zero-emissions products/technologies, and the solutions and services associated with these technologies. Focus areas include batteries, fuel cells, motors, inverters, micro grid controllers, charging, energy storage systems, lifecycle solutions/services and integration of components for ePowertrain solutions across industries.
We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building.
The Development & Research Specialist plays a key role in advancing Caterpillar's next-generation electrification technologies by overseeing laboratory validation activities and supporting the integration of high-voltage systems. This position combines technical coordination, project execution, vendor and contractor management, and ownership of lab safety practices to ensure reliable, safe, and effective testing of innovative energy and powertrain solutions.
- This position is located in Mossville, IL.
- Minimal travel 0-10% is required.
- Domestic relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- This position is based in office, 5 days per week.
- Tests products, analyzes test data and makes modifications to ensure compliance with specifications and requirements.
- Provides technical support to internal partners, suppliers and team members throughout the product development and implementation process.
- Integrates components and materials, assuring compliance with specifications and requirements.
- Builds, tests and modifies product prototypes using working models or theoretical models. Evaluates new product designs for technical feasibility and compliance with technical standards.
- 5 years or more of relevant technical experience and background in electrical/electrification/integration of high-voltage
- Experience managing multiple projects across procurement, coordination between contractors, lab testing and validation, and other priorities
- Knowledge and experience working with transformers
- Experience and foundational knowledge with following and documenting industry safety standards, codes, and meeting safety guidelines
Extensive experience and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Extensive experience and knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
- Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective
- technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business
- problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Extensive experience and knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
- Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
- Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
- Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
- Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
- Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
- Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
Extensive experience and knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment.
- Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
- Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
- Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
- Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
- Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
- Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or a fundamental related engineering degree
- Site electrification experience
- Knowledge and experience in Power Electronic Controls Systems and CANape Software
This position will be posted until 11:59PM on 08/19/2026.
$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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