Lead Electronic Verification & Validation Engineer

As a key leader within our Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies joint venture, you will spearhead the validation of advanced IMUs and sensing solutions that power the worlds most sophisticated off-highway equipment. You will bridge the gap between digital design and physical performance, ensuring our cutting-edge electronic systems thrive in the most demanding real-world environments while driving innovation at the intersection of two global industry leaders.

About Us

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, see http://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.

Field Systems: The Trimble Field Systems segment provides solutions to increase precision and productivity in construction tasks by empowering stakeholders to collect accurate information and manage conditions with cutting-edge technology.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, you will hold the ultimate authority on product readiness, serving as the technical focal point across integrated teams to ensure our sensing components meet elite performance standards. You will have the unique opportunity to shape the entire validation strategy from simulation to machine-level field testing, directly influencing the reliability of global off-highway infrastructure solutions.

The Lead Electronic Verification & Validation Engineer is responsible for defining, planning, coordinating, and executing verification and validation activities for Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), angle sensors, and related electronic sensing components. The role ensures products meet performance, reliability, and quality requirements through structured, risk-based validation across the product lifecycle.

This role serves as the primary V&V focal point within integrated product teams, providing technical leadership across electrical, mechanical, systems, firmware, manufacturing, and machine test domains. The position is accountable for ensuring validation coverage is complete, traceable, and sufficient to support product release decisions.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

Verification & Validation Planning and Strategy

• Develop and maintain verification and validation plans (DVP&R) for IMUs, angle sensors, and related components.
• Translate product requirements and design risks into structured, risk-based validation strategies and test coverage.
• Ensure validation coverage addresses performance, functional behavior, environmental robustness, durability, and reliability requirements.
• Lead the application of FMEA outputs into validation planning, ensuring all identified risks are mapped to appropriate verification and validation activities with defined acceptance criteria.

Test Execution Planning and Coordination

• Plan and coordinate validation activities across multiple venues, including: Simulation / virtual testing, Bench and lab testing, Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), Environmental testing, Machine-level testing, Field/Application testing
• Coordinate internal resources and external test facilities as needed.
• Ensure test readiness, proper execution, and adherence to defined procedures and acceptance criteria.

Technical Evaluation, Reporting, and Release Support

• Review and analyze validation results to ensure completeness, technical correctness, and traceability.
• Provide clear technical feedback and recommendations to design and development teams based on validation evidence.
• Ensure validation results are documented, traceable, and properly archived.
• Support program milestone reviews with concise validation status updates.
• Own validation completeness assessment and provide recommendations on product readiness for design release based on validation evidence and residual risk.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Systems Engineers, Firmware Engineers, Manufacturing, and Program Managers.
• Align validation plans with program schedules, product maturity, and resource availability.
• Support multiple concurrent development and sustaining programs across the product portfolio.

Standards and Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the development of standard validation workflows and best practices.
• Capture lessons learned and drive improvements in validation methods and efficiency.
• Support consistent application of validation processes across programs.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Engineering & Technical Knowledge

• Understanding of electronic product development across multiple disciplines (electrical, mechanical, firmware, systems).
• Working knowledge of validation methods including lab, simulation, environmental, and machine testing.
• Familiarity with durability and reliability engineering concepts.
• Basic understanding of functional safety and cybersecurity concepts as they relate to validation.

Validation & Risk-Based Engineering

• Experience developing or executing test plans and DVP&R-based validation activities.
• Working knowledge of FMEA-driven validation planning and risk mitigation traceability.
• Ability to define test coverage based on requirements and product risk.

Execution & Program Coordination

• Ability to coordinate validation activities across multiple programs and test environments.
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external test providers.
• Ability to manage priorities across concurrent projects.
• Communication
• Ability to clearly communicate test status, results, and technical findings.
• Experience producing structured test reports and validation documentation.
• Comfortable presenting in program reviews.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with IMUs, MEMS sensors, or automotive/off-highway sensing systems
• Background in reliability or durability validation
• Experience in structured validation systems (DVP&R, gated development processes)
• Strong hands-on lab or machine testing experience
• Ability to work independently across multiple technical domains

Logistics

Location: Dayton, OH (In Office)
Travel Requirement: 10%

The Bottom Line

This is a role where technical validation judgment directly influences product release decisions and field performance. You will define and execute how electronic sensing systems are verified under real-world conditions, ensuring robust performance across demanding off-highway applications.
If you are motivated by ownership, structured engineering rigor, and solving complex validation challenges across multiple systems and programs, this role offers meaningful technical impact.

Why You'll Love Working With Us
At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.
You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.
Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.
Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

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Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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