Data Engineer

Requisition Summary

PACCAR is a global manufacturer of heavy-duty transportation equipment, including Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks. The Engineering Solutions team at the PACCAR Technical Center in Mount Vernon WA is looking for a talented and highly motivated data engineer with software engineering experience who is willing to work across disciplines. The team is part of the PACCAR Global Engines group with a goal to provide highly generic, robust, and streamlined software solutions to multiple departments and divisions within PACCAR. These solutions will typically support data acquisition and analysis, rapid controls prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, calibration control, diagnostics, and software configuration management activities. The engineer will have an opportunity to utilize a variety of technologies along with core engineering and computer science fundamentals to deliver solutions to achieve this goal. This role has a strong potential to continue to make a significant impact in the long term.

Company Information

PACCAR is a Fortune 500 company established in 1905. PACCAR Inc is recognized as a global leader in the commercial vehicle, financial, and customer service fields with internationally recognized brands such as Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks. PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of premium light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates and also provides customized financial services, information technology and truck parts related to its principal business.

Whether you want to design the transportation technology of tomorrow, support the staff functions of a dynamic, international leader, or build our excellent products and services, you can develop the career you desire with PACCAR. Get started!

Job Functions / Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a robust data pipeline focused on ensuring data quality, global accessibility, and conformance to regulations at PACCAR.

• Design and Develop software solutions for data archival, analysis, and reporting, with a strong emphasis on data science methodologies.

• Development and maintenance of software solutions that support processes for data analysis, software release, software configuration management, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and rapid controls prototyping activities.

• Responsibilities include capturing user stories/requirements, writing both functional and test code, automating build and deployment, and/or performing unit integration, and end-to-end testing of the software solutions.

• Ensure compliance with established policies, standards, and best practices for software documentation within the development team. Continuously improve these practices to promote accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across all project documentation.

• Stay up to date with the latest software development trends, technologies, and tools, and apply them to drive innovation and improve software development processes and deliverables for PACCAR.

Qualifications

• At least two years of proven experience in a professional environment with a focus on software engineering or data engineering (graduate qualifications may be considered in lieu of experience)

• Strong programming and object-oriented design/development skills required (MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Java, C, C++, C#, embedded software development)

• Use of version control systems (SVN, Git) & database development tools (SQL, MySQL)

• Strong attention to detail, a passion to solve problems, and strong communication skills

• Availability to work on-site, travel up to 10%, including international travel

• Experience with data collection systems, data acquisition hardware, and sensors commonly used in vehicle and systems testing.

• Knowledge of the automotive industry and the commercial vehicle industry preferred.

Education

Bachelor's degree (Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering)

PACCAR Benefits

As a U.S. PACCAR employee, you have a full range of benefit options including:

• 401k with up to a 5% company match

• Fully funded pension plan that provides monthly benefits after retirement

• Comprehensive paid time off - Minimum of 10 paid vacation days (additional days are provided with additional seniority/years of service), 12 paid holidays, and sick time

• Tuition reimbursement for continued education

• Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family

• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)

• Paid short-and long-term disability program

• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance

• EAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more

Additional Job Board Information

PACCAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability. At PACCAR, we value talent and promote growth and development. We carefully consider numerous compensation factors, including your education, training, or experience. The salary range for Software Engineer is $84,000 - $131,700 annually. Additionally, this role is eligible for a full range of benefit options listed above. This position is also eligible for a holiday gift. #LI-ZP1

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