Electronic Systems Engineer, Software
Cummins Inc.
Key Responsibilities
- Mitigate failure modes by identifying critical interfaces, functions, interactions, and risks to improve long‑term product robustness.
- Model and analyze system, subsystem, and component behavior to predict performance and guide architecture.
- Develop holistic product platforms, evaluate architectural trade‑offs, and maintain traceable plans that align future products with market needs.
- Build and verify software using strong engineering principles, ensuring updates are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with product requirements.
- Create and manage validation plans, assess risk, interpret analytical and physical test results, and recommend solutions that ensure requirement compliance.
- Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements, manage lifecycle changes, and maintain linkages that keep teams aligned and designs on track.
- Analyze interactions across the system to predict behavior, refine designs, and drive modifications that deliver the intended product effects.
- Partner across functions, communicate effectively, apply statistical methods, solve problems with rigor, and document insights.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Ability to investigate software issues, understand causal mechanisms, and recommend corrective actions.
- Proficiency in using coding, compiling, static analysis, integration tools, and HIL environments for software builds.
- Application of systems knowledge for decision-making in requirements, architecture, design, and testing.
- Effective communication and teamwork for gathering input and coordinating with teams.
- Ability to execute established development processes independently.
- Embedded microcontroller software development.
- CAN, CAN-FD, and J1939 message interpretation and analysis.
- Software programming in C.
- Ability to read and interpret Matlab Simulink models and their generated code.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field.
- Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
- Entry level/Early career professional.
- Preferred candidates have relevant experience working in either a temporary student employment environment (intern, co-op, or other extracurricular team activities) or as an early career professional in a relevant technical discipline area.
- Knowledge of MS Office tools is also preferred.