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Job Description:

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Job Title: CAE Software Development Engineer

Salary: £38850-£42500 Per Annum, depending upon experience

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave

• Up to 10% Bonus

• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%

• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.

About IPSD

Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat® and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

Job Summary

The Computer-Aided-Engineering (CAE) Software team sits within the CAE Simulation team which is part of the engineering team at IPSD-M (Industrial Power Systems Division – Medium Engines). We are seeking a CAE Software Development Engineer to join the team to support and enable the Simulation Team to serve the future needs of the business.

The CAE Simulation team is comprised of Thermofluids (CFD), Structural (FEA) and Software teams, and is responsible for supporting the design, performance and mechanical development of advanced powertrains for Caterpillar and driving the technical direction in the early stages of new products through the use of simulation tools and methodologies, as well as the virtual validation of these early concepts.

Additional Info

• Hybrid work pattern – Minimum 3 days in the office per week

What You Will Do

• Support the development and maintenance of proprietary Python based software to increase the efficiency of simulation workflows that are utilised throughout all disciplines within the CAE Simulation team.

• Develop and deploy process automation and integration tools using a mixture of proprietary and commercial simulation tools.

• Identify opportunities to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning tools to enable process automation with the aim to increase simulation efficiency and design insight.

• Development of workflows within commercial multi-disciplinary optimisation (MDO) tools that execute on both Windows and Linux based high performance computing environments.

• Work with a degree of autonomy both individually, and as part of a cross-functional team to deliver complex tasks concurrently.

What You Have

Required qualifications :

• Accredited Bachelors degree in a relevant Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics subject

• Python coding experience

Programming Languages: Knowledge of basic concepts and capabilities of programming; ability to use tools, techniques and platforms in order to write and modify programming languages.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Development of code in a specialized programming language (Python preferred) to complete a task.

• Experience and working knowledge of both Windows and Linux operating systems

• Follows an organization's standards, policies and guidelines for structured programming specifications.

• Develops code collaboratively with others using version control and modular coding standards.

• Regularly peer reviews code with others to share learning and develop robust solutions.

• Uses research techniques to identify solutions to programming problems autonomously.

• Diagnoses and reports minor or routine programming language problems.#

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Effectively communicate ideas to others and interpret others ideas and needs into software solutions.

• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.

• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.

• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

• Continuous improvement mindset to explore new techniques in, for example, AI and machine learning to enable future automation and efficiency gains in simulation workflow.

Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows defined procedures to document all routine information.

• Identifies relevant established standards, policies and practices.

• Fulfills routine information capture needs in own area.

• Uses automated tools to capture, organize and archive relevant information.

• Cites examples of different types of relevant information that need to be captured.

What You Will Get

Within this role you will get a great opportunity to solve a wide variety of problems working alongside a team of like-minded software engineers, helping to shape the evolution of process automation within a simulation team at Caterpillar. You will have the opportunity to be part of the team leading and developing software tools to enable simulation efficiency gains and opportunity to influence the wider simulation community in the global Caterpillar enterprise.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting. #LI-Hybrid

Posting Dates:

June 23, 2024 - July 7, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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