Senior Machine Integration Engineer at Caterpillar in Tucson, AZ

Senior Machine Integration Engineer Location: Tucson, Arizona Career Area: Engineering 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. Join Caterpillar’s Resource Industries team as a Senior Machine Integration Engineer for the Battery Electric 793 Diesel Electric, now entering the pilot  Build phase. This Tucson,AZ based role focuses on product design, validation, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, and customer-facing teams. You’ll drive requirements development, oversee early learner field follow, and coordinate across multiple product teams to deliver groundbreaking technology on Caterpillar’s flagship battery electric mining truck. What You Will Do: Lead cross-functional engineering teams across design, manufacturing, safety, and product support. Drive integration of conceptual designs, performance requirements, serviceability, and compliance. Influence outcomes through deep technical expertise—without direct reports, but with significant impact across multiple teams. Define project scope to address business challenges and opportunities. Coordinate resources across product development, testing, validation, value chain, and manufacturing. Monitor project progress and costs; communicate status to stakeholders; resolve issues promptly. Direct project staffing; motivate and develop project team members. Why This Role is Exciting: Expand Your Horizons: Build broad technical skills across advanced systems and entire machine architecture. Shape the Future: Ensure seamless system integration to meet or exceed business and customer requirements. Collaborate & Innovate: Work with diverse teams and cutting-edge technologies to deliver next-generation solutions. Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science from an accredited program. What Skills You Will Have: Design Process Improvement Knowledge of DPI methods to evaluate engineering and validation workflows and drive improvements that enhance cross‑functional efficiency at the machine‑integration level. Ability to guide teams toward more effective processes by recognizing system bottlenecks and aligning stakeholders on needed changes. Planning: Tactical & Strategic Ability to develop and adjust operational and tactical plans for complex machine programs, ensuring alignment across engineering, manufacturing, and validation teams. Demonstrated capability to anticipate integration impacts and maintain schedule integrity in a senior technical leadership role. Quality Management Understanding of Caterpillar quality processes and continuous improvement tools to ensure system‑level performance, compliance, and serviceability. Ability to influence teams to uphold quality standards throughout design, integration, and Concept Build execution. Analytical Thinking Strong analytical mindset with the capability to diagnose integration issues and drive resolution across multiple engineering domains. Effective Communications Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly across engineering, manufacturing, and customer‑facing groups, ensuring alignment on integration status and decisions. Demonstrated skill in influencing outcomes through clear, concise, and audience‑appropriate communication. Problem Solving Knowledge of structured problem‑solving techniques to identify integration or validation issues early and drive fact‑based resolutions across multiple teams. Ability to balance stakeholder perspectives and system‑level impacts when determining the best path forward. Systems Thinking Understanding of full machine architecture and the interdependencies among subsystems to identify systemic issues and ensure integrated solutions meet performance, safety, and manufacturability goals. Ability to guide teams in resolving cross‑system challenges that affect overall machine behavior. Additional Information: The primary work location for this role is Tucson, AZ, with a requirement to work on-site full-time at a Caterpillar facility. This position may require 15% travel. Domestic relocation assistance is available. Visa sponsorship, international assignments, or payroll transfers are not available for this role. Posting Date: 5/8/2026- 5/22/2026 Summary Pay Range: $112,710.00 - $169,060.00 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. Benefits: 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 Posting Dates: 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. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.