Senior System Engineer
Trimble
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Job summary
Trimble CTCT in Dayton, Ohio, seeks a Senior System Design Engineer to lead the design of machine control systems for earthmoving and paving equipment. You will collaborate with marketing and multi-disciplinary teams to define architectures, integrate hardware and software, and drive safety-focused solutions.
You will apply electrical, software, and mechanical engineering expertise to create robust system designs, mentor junior engineers, and influence product strategy while traveling up to 25%.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of embedded product development experience.
- 3+ years of functional safety product development experience.
Responsibilities
- Design earthmoving and paving machine control systems.
- Collaborate on system architectures, product design, and verification.
- Contribute to product safety concepts and architectures.
- Decompose system and safety requirements into subsystems.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams on V-model execution.
- Support hardware component selection and design.
- Define machine control networks, interfaces, and messaging.
- Participate in hazard and risk analyses and FMEDA activities.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.
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Transform the Future of Heavy Equipment: Lead Next-Gen System Design as our Senior System Design Engineer! Ready to shape the future of heavy machinery and revolutionize earthmoving and paving technology on a global scale? Join our CTCT team in Dayton, Ohio, to design and integrate high-impact, innovative machine control systems that keep essential industries moving forward efficiently and safely.
Trimble Field Systems develops hardware, software and services that connect the site to the office for key industries around the world, including civil construction, surveying, mapping, automotive, marine, utilities and more. Leveraging decades of expertise and a commitment to driving innovative breakthroughs, we offer solutions that drive digital transformation across your field operations.
The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance.
As a System Design Engineer within CTCT, you will play a vital role in the team developing technology that works for our customers. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the specification, design, and integration of future machine control systems for earthmoving and paving machines (excavators, bulldozers, graders, etc.). You’ll work with marketing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and machine OEMs, to ensure we develop innovative, high-quality products. You will utilize your detailed knowledge of practical applications of electrical, software, and mechanical engineering skills to lay out system architecture and the systems that are dependent on them. In addition to your broad-ranging technical skills, you will have excellent interpersonal skills to work within ambiguous situations, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define and develop products, and help transform requirements into product strategy and technical direction, including sometimes serving as the technical lead in engineering teams (leading through influence).
- Create earthmoving and paving machine control system designs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the creation and application of system architectures, product design, and verification
- Contribute to the creation of product safety concepts and architectures
- Assist in the decomposition of product system and safety requirements into subsystem requirements
- Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams on V-model execution
- Support electronics hardware component selection and design ensuring system needs are met
- Define machine control networks including layout, system usage, security, and messaging
- Define communication interfaces including electrical implementation, bus loading analyses, and messaging protocols
- Participate in assessments influencing product safety such as hazard & risk analyses, DFMEA, FMEDA, PFMEA, and common cause failure analysis
- Assume a leadership role in resolving complex technical problems
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and technicians
- Travel (including international) is less than 25%
- BS in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience working in embedded product development
- Minimum 3 years of experience developing functionally safe products
- Familiar with system design - application level problem solving, system architectures, CAN networks, machine integration
- Electronics experience; capable of understanding and developing system diagrams and schematics
- Experience designing and interfacing with vehicular communication and control systems
- Knowledge of electronic hardware and software product development processes and tools
- Proven record of applying functional safety principles and practices to product development
- Experience contributing to product risk assessments, FMEAs and FMEDAs
- Technical leadership - use of influence and experience to achieve goals
- Solid analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of writing technical specifications and presenting to customers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to work independently and as part of a global team
- Experience designing Machine Control Systems
- Familiarity with functions and usage of construction or agriculture machinery
- Deep understanding of industry standards such as ISO 19014, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, and ISO 26262
- Ability to reconcile functional and regulatory product requirements, and process them into detailed engineering requirements
- You possess expertise in analog and exposure to digital electronic circuit design and risk mitigation strategies
- Experience in the development and management of organizational standards and processes
- You have a proven track record working with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), specifically with accelerometers and gyroscopes
Location: Dayton, Ohio.
Travel Requirement: Less than 25% (including international).
Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full-time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law. Hiring Range $115,600.00–$158,900.00. Pay Rate Type: Salary. Bonus Eligible? Yes. Commission Eligible? No.
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Disability
- Time off plans
- Retirement plans
- Tax savings plans for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under Governance→Governance Documents. Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.
If you need assistance or would like to request an accommodation in connection with the application process, please contact careers@trimble.com.
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