Software Engineer

• You’ll rotate through different teams and projects that match your skills, knowledge, and abilities.
• You’ll work on meaningful projects, connect with mentors, and get exposure to various areas of the company.
• Design components and systems for Caterpillar products to meet customer needs.
• Conduct analyses such as CFD [Computational Fluid Dynamics] (ANSYS), FEA [Finite Element Analysis], 3D modelling, system/subsystem/component design optimization.
• Apply strong mechanical engineering understanding in a test/validation (hands-on) environment.
• Develop/implement control system algorithms using Matlab/Simulink.
• Design and test various electronic control modules and electronic components.
• Develop embedded software in C, C#, and/or C++ for various electronic control modules.
• Verify functionality of a feature or control system algorithm.

Engineering Rotational Development Program – Product Development Track

• Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
• Interns will have assignments that provide them with experience and significant learning opportunities.
• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• You can focus on building technical abilities in roles including Product Design, Simulation/Performance Analysis, Test/Validation/Hands on, Controls Development, Electronic Components, Embedded Software Development, Software Validation/Verification for Electronic Systems, Engineering Data Analytics, Process Engineering.

Corporate Intern – Engineering

Backend Engineer

• own the technical direction and architecture across several teams building API capabilities
• establish the engineering practices that teams build on
• define how APIs are designed and governed at scale
• lead the effort to embed AI-powered capabilities into the developer experience
• lead the design and delivery of AI capabilities embedded into the developer platform
• architect and build MCP servers exposing the enterprise API catalog as a queryable context
• participate in architecture reviews, design documents, and pull requests

Principal Engineer, API Platform

• Developing and deploying scalable and elegant code
• Work with distributed systems and data pipelines
• Lead and drive projects to completion
• Innovating on creative solutions to difficult problems
• Work with related data infrastructure technologies

Full-stack Engineer

• Provide technical leadership and support for industrial control systems across Polaris manufacturing facilities
• Partner with manufacturing, maintenance, tooling, and engineering teams to implement automation solutions
• Analyze manufacturing processes and recommend automation solutions that improve efficiency, quality, reliability, and operational performance
• Oversee the installation, commissioning, and integration of control systems for new and existing manufacturing equipment
• Integrate manufacturing control systems with MES platforms to support product quality and process visibility
• Troubleshoot and resolve controls, automation, and equipment-related issues to minimize downtime and support production objectives
• Train production and maintenance personnel on control system operation, maintenance, and programming practices
• Develop, modify, and maintain PLC, HMI, and related control system programming to support production requirements and process improvements
• Develop standards, machine specifications, and controls documentation to support manufacturing equipment and applications

Senior Controls Engineer

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Own identity and trust at the core: Set the direction for how users, agents, and services authenticate and authorize across CoCounsel Legal.
• Own the design and evolution of authentication and authorization across CoCounsel Legal – considering roles, autonomous agents, etc.
• Partner with security, platform, and compliance teams on multi-tenancy isolation, data residency, privilege protection, and the audit trails that legal and government customers require.
• Join a tight group of senior engineers and researchers shipping quickly, with direct access to product leadership and customers.
• Technical leadership and cross-functional influence: Lead and/or design initiatives that cut across AI, product, identity, and infrastructure.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers, raising the bar on AI integration practices, system design, code quality, and security across the org.
• Help shape the team’s roadmap, technical strategy, and engineering culture – from experimentation practices to testing, rollout, and postmortems.
• Design for high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads: caching, queuing, rate-limiting, model failover, and cost/performance trade-offs.
• Work with large-scale data: millions of documents, retrieval and search, vector stores, and indexing strategies tailored to legal use cases.
• Establish and refine SLOs, observability, and incident response for AI systems that must be correct, auditable, and trustworthy in professional legal workflows.

Principal Engineer

• Design and maintain enterprise databases, including stored procedures, indexing, views, SQL scripts, and database objects.
• Develop and optimize ETL pipelines and workflows using SSIS, Python, PySpark, and SQL Server.
• Build data ingestion and transformation workflows across raw, staging, curated, and analytics data layers.
• Develop and optimize SQL scripts and stored procedures for data conversion, validation, and ongoing processing.
• Execute large-scale data migration projects, including data cleansing, validation, and transformation across enterprise systems.
• Design and implement logical and physical data models (ERDs).
• Develop database components supporting transactional and reporting systems.
• Build and maintain reporting solutions using SSRS and Power BI.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize SQL Server database performance.
• Provide production support, including troubleshooting performance issues and participating in on-call support when needed.
• Collaborate with developers, business users, QA teams, and project stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, development activities, code reviews, testing, and release cycles.
• Provide technical documentation and knowledge transfer.

Database Developer

• Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to design, develop, document, and implement software solutions that align with project requirements and business goals.
• Collaborate with the development team, stakeholders, and participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Conduct bug investigations and verification tasks.
• Participate in technical design meetings and contribute to the overall design of solutions/products.
• Research and develop solutions for problems identified by QA or Support.
• Write secure code according to best practices (familiarity with OWASP vulnerabilities and solutions).
• Understand CI/CD build and deployment strategies.
• Conduct unit testing and integration testing for functionality, security, and limits.
• Continuously improve coding skills and learn development best practices

Software Engineer – Intermediate

• Working with the largest utility-scale substation and/or energy storage customers in the United States to bring the next generation of storage and renewable generation assets onto the grid.
• Designing utility scale substation physical designs and energy storage designs with the latest technology available
• Developing innovative designs to optimize overall cost and performance.
• Comfortable interfacing and presenting to multiple stakeholders (e.g., customer decision-makers, project teams, etc.).
• Provide technical support to personnel/cross-functional teams for proposals, estimating, detailed engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines, Project Managers, and Design Phase Managers to successfully deliver design projects.
• Participate in project teams that execute the design, analysis, or evaluation of assigned individual and team projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements.
• Begins performing lead engineer tasks on 1 - 3 large design projects.
• Mentor and guide other Engineering Professionals.
• Technical review, approval, and selection of equipment vendor quotes on major equipment from manufacturers with Design Phase Manager / Lead Engineers review.
• Collects and evaluates data to recommend courses of action.
• Assure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and Mortenson QA/QC procedures.
• Performs data analysis and engineering tasks, calculations, and studies to develop preliminary and detailed designs for the completion of large and small projects.
• Developing technical specifications, providing direction and guidance to drafters and designers, directing the flow of drafting and designer duties ensuring design schedules are met, including regularly providing project status updates to the project engineer.
• Responsible for handling multiple projects and providing a detailed design package that complies with applicable engineering design standards and all safety codes.
• Strong understanding of discipline-specific technical designs, QA/QC procedures, and engineering policies.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering principles, business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements.
• Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, and adaptation or modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Review of engineering work produces a first-time review rate of documents at 80% correct.
• Understand and be able to apply the equation S=P+jQ.
• Verify that construction agrees with civil and protection engineering design drawings, including preparatory meetings, and QA/QC.
• Develops and evaluates the technical requirements for fabrication and construction tender packages.
• Creates detailed designs aligned with our customer requirements and Mortenson’s best practice standards

Engineer III/IV - Energy Storage

Frontend Engineer

• Build new websites on WordPress from initial concept through launch
• Set up and configure e-commerce functionality (e.g., WooCommerce) for client-facing sites
• Develop internal tools/web pages to support staff and operational workflows
• Perform regular updates to existing WordPress sites (plugins, themes, core software)
• Troubleshoot and resolve site bugs, downtime, or performance issues
• Manage hosting-related tasks within SiteGround
• Maintain and update e-commerce site features, product pages, and checkout flows
• Monitor e-commerce functionality to ensure a smooth user experience
• Support any integrations tied to online transactions
• Maintain HubSpot integrations connected to the website (forms, tracking, workflows)
• Collaborate with Google Workspace tools for documentation and team coordination
• Ensure consistency and functionality across all connected platforms
• Provide light design support for web pages using existing brand assets
• Incorporate AI-generated and Canva-created content into site pages
• Ensure visual consistency across new and existing pages

Web Developer

• Design, develop, and maintain SQL Server databases
• Build and optimize ETL pipelines and data workflows using SSIS, SQL Server, Python, and/or PySpark
• Lead or support large-scale data conversion and migration efforts
• Develop data ingestion and transformation processes
• Create and maintain logical and physical data models
• Build and support reporting solutions using SSRS and Power BI
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues
• Provide production support and participate in on-call support

Database Developer – Contractor

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services for pricing, including rate engines, discounting logic, and billing integrations
• Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, code reviews, testing, deployment, and ongoing monitoring of pricing systems
• Partner with Product Managers, Finance, Sales, and Data teams to translate complex pricing strategies and business requirements into robust, maintainable solutions
• Lead and influence architectural decisions while continuously strengthening the platform’s technical foundation
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, including code quality, testing approaches, and performance standards
• Mentor and support mid-level and junior engineers, fostering growth and technical excellence within the team
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term preventive solutions
• Monitor system performance proactively, optimise query efficiency, and ensure pricing APIs consistently meet SLA targets
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve development efficiency and reliability
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure pricing systems remain compliant with relevant regulatory and business requirements

Senior Software Engineer

• Serve as technical lead or study manager on transmission planning engagements, owning scope, schedule, quality, and client relationship
• Perform steady-state load flow and contingency analysis (PSS/E, PSLF, PowerWorld) for utility transmission planning and interconnection studies
• Conduct transient stability and dynamic simulation studies, including modeling of conventional generation and inverter-based resources (IBR)
• Lead generation and large load interconnection impact studies, including feasibility, facilities, and cluster/serial study processes across CAISO, MISO, PJM, ERCOT, WECC, and other regional footprints
• Develop and assess long-range transmission expansion plans evaluating load growth scenarios, generation retirement, renewable buildout, and infrastructure needs
• Support FERC Order 1920 proactive transmission planning and Order 2023 interconnection reform compliance work for utility clients
• Perform NERC reliability standards studies and assessments including TPL-001, FAC-001/002, TOP-001, and MOD series standards
• Author and QA technical study reports for regulatory filings, client deliverables, and interconnection submissions
• Develop Python-based automation and tooling to improve study execution efficiency, model management, and output quality
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical review, guidance, and day-to-day collaboration
• Participate in business development through proposal writing, scope development, client presentations, and identification of new opportunities
• Monitor evolving FERC policy, regional planning standards, and grid technology trends to inform client strategy and internal capability development

Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

• Serve as the senior technical point of contact for partners integrating with NinjaTrader APIs, providing expert guidance on authentication, endpoints, data models, and architectural best practices
• Partner directly with external engineering teams to debug complex integration issues, conduct code reviews of their implementations, and accelerate time-to-production
• Collaborate closely with Technical Account Managers to deliver a seamless partner experience, translating business requirements into technical solutions and providing real-time support during critical integration milestones
• Diagnose and resolve complex API issues spanning WebSocket connections, REST endpoints, and real-time data feeds, often under time pressure with high-value partners
• Own the quality standard for API support, establishing best practices for troubleshooting, documentation, and partner communication that the broader team can follow
• Build and enhance internal tools, scripts, and diagnostic utilities that improve support efficiency and enable faster issue resolution
• Drive continuous platform improvement by synthesizing partner feedback into actionable recommendations for Product and Engineering, influencing the API roadmap
• Mentor junior team members on technical troubleshooting, partner communication, and maintaining composure in high-stakes situations
• Develop deep expertise in NinjaTrader's evaluation platform, trading systems, and API architecture to provide authoritative technical leadership

Senior Software Engineer I, Evaluation Services

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of the bank’s Digital Assets and Tokenization Platform
• Design and build secure, scalable, highly available cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems principles
• Drive technical strategy, solution architecture, and engineering best practices across multiple Agile teams
• Develop and enhance digital asset transaction processing, payment orchestration, settlement workflows, and blockchain connectivity services
• Integrate enterprise applications with blockchain networks, digital asset custody providers, wallet platforms, payment rails, and core banking systems
• Architect and implement real-time transaction monitoring, ledger synchronization, reconciliation, exception management, and settlement processing solutions
• Establish and champion engineering standards including domain-driven design (DDD), API-first development, secure coding practices, CI/CD automation, observability, and operational excellence
• Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Compliance, Risk, Security, and Business stakeholders
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on coaching.

Lead Software Engineer – Digital Assets

• Define and scale the next generation of Shipt’s marketplace architecture.
• Set technical direction across modern frontend architecture, backend services, GraphQL orchestration, pricing, loyalty, experimentation, and AI-native engineering workflows.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and business stakeholders to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Drive the evolution of Config-Driven / Server-Driven UI patterns for flexible and reusable experiences.
• Architect and scale GraphQL orchestration patterns, including schema design and caching strategies.
• Guide the design of resilient backend microservices and APIs for high-scale marketplace domains such as pricing and promotions.
• Champion AI-native engineering practices across Marketplace Engineering.

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• Investigate and resolve production issues and customer-reported bugs.
• Contribute to system design discussions and architectural decisions.
• Continuously improve code quality, testing practices, and development processes.

Senior Backend Software Engineer, NodeJS

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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Senior Manager, Backend Services

Principal Engineer

Database Developer

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Engineer III/IV - Energy Storage

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Database Developer – Contractor

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