Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a general team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Career Area

Engineering

Job Summary

Responsible for evaluating, validating, and optimizing the structural integrity, strength, durability, and safety of products, equipment, and assemblies through analytical calculations, simulation tools, and engineering principles. This role ensures that designs meet applicable engineering standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations while balancing performance, manufacturability, cost, and reliability.

Responsibilities

Structural Analysis
- Perform linear and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) of components and assemblies.




- Conduct static, dynamic, fatigue, vibration, buckling, thermal, and impact analyses.
- Evaluate stress, strain, displacement, and load distribution under operational and extreme loading conditions.
- Verify structural performance against design requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Identify high-risk areas and provide design recommendations to improve structural integrity.

Design Validation
- Validate engineering designs through analytical calculations and simulation methodologies.
- Support concept development by evaluating alternative structural designs.
- Create and review hand calculations to verify simulation accuracy.
- Ensure compliance with design factors of safety and strength requirements.
- Participate in design reviews and provide technical recommendations.

Tooling Development Support
- Collaborate with design engineers to develop robust structural solutions.
- Support ne

📌 Design Engineer (Santa Catarina)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Santa Catarina