Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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Description
As a part of the dynamic and growing Electric Drive team at Caterpillar, the Virtual Product Development (VPD) team is looking to expand our capability to support simulation of additional electrification opportunities. The VPD team is a part of the Motors and Generators section and we are looking for a capable thought leader with proven experience in physics based modelling of electric machines, power electronics, and the systems interactions between them. This role will be located in Mossville, IL and you will be a part of a growing global team of simulation experts.
Job Duties (including but not limited to the following)

• Create, Correlate & Maintain Detailed Power Electronics Component / System Models
• Support Power Electronics Designers in Optimizing Component & Systems
• Semiconductor Selection, Bus Bar Design, Capacitor Selection, PCB Design, Sensors & Magnetics
• Multi Goal Optimization such as Cost, Robustness, Weight, Space Claim & Control Stability
• Predict System / Component Losses, Temperatures & Life Given Various Load Profiles
• Support NPI, NTI, CPI, and Cost Reduction programs to meet quality and performance targets
• Drive knowledge management including developing standard work and automating processes
• Ongoing professional development including seminars, training, and courses as needed
• Collaboration and mentoring of global team
• Help to develop and refine global VPD strategy for Electric Drive components
• Working in the labs with our lab teams to understand and drive alignment of simulation to test data

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering discipline
• 3-5 years engineering experience in simulation of motors, inverters, and/or electric drive systems

Top Candidates will also have

• PhD in Engineering discipline
• Experience with hybrid electric transmission development
• Experience with battery electric vehicle development
• Experience with VPD tools such as the ANSYS tool suite
• Strong Background in Multiphysics Modeling (Thermal & Electromagnetics)
• Experienced in CFD Modeling Tools (examples: Fluent, Icepak, Star CCM
• Experienced in Electromagnetic FEA Tools (examples: Q3D, Maxwell, COMSOL)
• Experienced in Modeling Power Electronics Systems
• Power Semiconductors, Bus Bars, Cables, Capacitors, Magnetics & PCBs
• Experience with CAD tools: circuit and behavioral simulation (SPICE, Plecs/PSim, Saber, Matlab/Simulink) or understand PCB layout guidance
• Experienced in Reduced Order Modeling
• Strong Background in Simplification Complex Systems for Transient Load Cycle Analysis
• Understanding of Linear Systems & Techniques to Linearize Non-Linear systems
• Experienced & Comfortable Support HV Lab Testing and Model Correlation

Additional Information

• This position will close on 11/18/21 at 11:59PM.
• The location for this position is Mossville, IL
• Relocation assistance is available for this position.
• This position may require less than 20% travel

Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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Relocation is available for this position.
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