About Pierce, an Oshkosh companyAt Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.FINAL ROUND INTERVIEW WILL BE HELD IN PERSON IN APPLETON, WI. At Oshkosh Corporation, we are redefining how mission-critical vehicles connect, communicate, and deliver value through technology. As Chief Engineer Principal – Software, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our next-generation, cloud-native connected vehicle telematics platform serving fire and emergency response, refuse collection, and concrete mixer vehicles. This is an opportunity to combine architectural leadership and hands-on software engineering to build innovative, scalable, reliable software solutions that transform vehicle data into actionable intelligence and deliver meaningful impact for our customers. YOUR IMPACT<ul><li>Architecture leadership – Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle’s Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations. Make pragmatic decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost.</li><li>Hands-on engineering - Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications.</li><li>Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.</li><li>Cross-functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions, remove roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.</li><li>Platform optimization — Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency through continuous improvements.</li></ul> MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<ul><li>Education - Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.</li><li>8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.</li><li>Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.</li><li>Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus</li><li>Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.</li><li>Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.</li><li>Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.</li><li>Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.</li></ul> STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS<ul><li>Experience designing and developing cloud applications for connected vehicles, devices, or equipment at scale.</li><li>Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices.</li><li>Experience with Linux command-line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, and maintaining self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines.</li><li>Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills. Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, balance architectural rigor with delivery speed.</li></ul> CORE COMPETENCIES:<ul><li>Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.</li><li>External Contacts:  Limited external contact to gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.</li><li>Communication Skills:  Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos; Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals; Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups; Read, analyze and interpret business manuals, technical procedures and/or government regulations: Read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.</li><li>Decision-Making:  Significant responsibility for decisions and final results, affecting more than one function or a function with multiple unites. Substantial analysis is required and many factors must be weighted before a decision can be reached. </li><li>Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving:  Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems, work from broad instruction, and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated.  Decisions require considerable judgment, initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.</li><li>Supervisory/Managerial:  General instructing, scheduling, and reviewing the work of others performing the same or directly related work. Acts as “lead worker”.</li></ul> WORKING CONDITIONS: <ul><li>Physical Demands: Frequent: Standing, Walking/Running, Sitting, Reaching, Hearing, Talking, Visual, Typing; Occasional: Driving, Fine Dexterity, Manual Dexterity; Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion; Seldom: Lifting/Carrying 25lbs., Pushing/Pulling 25llbs.</li><li>Non-Physical Demands: Frequent: Analysis/Reasoning, Communication/Interpretation, Math/Mental Computation, Reading, Sustained Mental Activity (i.e. auditing, problem solving, grant writing, composing reports), Writing.</li><li>Environmental Demands: Frequent: Work Alone, Frequent Task Changes, Tedious/Exacting Work; Occasional: High Volume Public Contact.</li><li>Work Schedule:  Routine shift hours. Infrequent overtime, weekend, or shift rotation.</li><li>Demands/Deadlines: High volume and variable work demands and deadlines impose strain on routine basis or considerable stress intermittently; OR regular direct contacts with distressed individuals within the immediate work environment; and/or exposure to demands and pressures from persons other than immediate supervisor.</li></ul>Pay Range:$118,600.00 - $204,000.00<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at corporatetalentacquisition@oshkoshcorp.com.Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

Moving the world forward Oshkosh is an industrial technology company of approximately 17,000 team members, that designs and manufactures some of the world&rsquo;s toughest specialty and access equipment under the brands of JLG&reg;, Hinowa, Pierce&reg;, Power Towers, MAXIMETAL, Oshkosh&reg; Defense, McNeilus&reg;, IMT&reg;, Jerr-Dan&reg;, Frontline&trade; Communications, Oshkosh&reg; Airport Products, Oshkosh&reg; AeroTech and Pratt Miller. We make a difference in people&rsquo;s lives by creating mission-critical equipment that serves the everyday hero. Our innovation is people focused and developed by sharing advances across our portfolio of companies. For us, it&rsquo;s about moving the world forward through building, serving and protecting communities. Our purpose: Make a difference in people&rsquo;s lives.

Chief Engineer Principal – Software

About Pierce, an Oshkosh companyAt Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.FINAL ROUND INTERVIEW WILL BE HELD IN PERSON IN APPLETON, WI. At Oshkosh Corporation, we are redefining how mission-critical vehicles connect, communicate, and deliver value through technology. As Chief Engineer Principal – Software, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our next-generation, cloud-native connected vehicle telematics platform serving fire and emergency response, refuse collection, and concrete mixer vehicles. This is an opportunity to combine architectural leadership and hands-on software engineering to build innovative, scalable, reliable software solutions that transform vehicle data into actionable intelligence and deliver meaningful impact for our customers. YOUR IMPACT<ul><li>Architecture leadership – Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle’s Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations. Make pragmatic decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost.</li><li>Hands-on engineering - Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications.</li><li>Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.</li><li>Cross-functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions, remove roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.</li><li>Platform optimization — Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency through continuous improvements.</li></ul> MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<ul><li>Education - Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.</li><li>8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.</li><li>Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.</li><li>Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus</li><li>Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.</li><li>Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.</li><li>Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.</li><li>Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.</li></ul> STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS<ul><li>Experience designing and developing cloud applications for connected vehicles, devices, or equipment at scale.</li><li>Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices.</li><li>Experience with Linux command-line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, and maintaining self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines.</li><li>Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills. Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, balance architectural rigor with delivery speed.</li></ul> CORE COMPETENCIES:<ul><li>Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.</li><li>External Contacts:  Limited external contact to gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.</li><li>Communication Skills:  Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos; Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals; Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups; Read, analyze and interpret business manuals, technical procedures and/or government regulations: Read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.</li><li>Decision-Making:  Significant responsibility for decisions and final results, affecting more than one function or a function with multiple unites. Substantial analysis is required and many factors must be weighted before a decision can be reached. </li><li>Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving:  Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems, work from broad instruction, and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated.  Decisions require considerable judgment, initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.</li><li>Supervisory/Managerial:  General instructing, scheduling, and reviewing the work of others performing the same or directly related work. Acts as “lead worker”.</li></ul> WORKING CONDITIONS: <ul><li>Physical Demands: Frequent: Standing, Walking/Running, Sitting, Reaching, Hearing, Talking, Visual, Typing; Occasional: Driving, Fine Dexterity, Manual Dexterity; Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion; Seldom: Lifting/Carrying 25lbs., Pushing/Pulling 25llbs.</li><li>Non-Physical Demands: Frequent: Analysis/Reasoning, Communication/Interpretation, Math/Mental Computation, Reading, Sustained Mental Activity (i.e. auditing, problem solving, grant writing, composing reports), Writing.</li><li>Environmental Demands: Frequent: Work Alone, Frequent Task Changes, Tedious/Exacting Work; Occasional: High Volume Public Contact.</li><li>Work Schedule:  Routine shift hours. Infrequent overtime, weekend, or shift rotation.</li><li>Demands/Deadlines: High volume and variable work demands and deadlines impose strain on routine basis or considerable stress intermittently; OR regular direct contacts with distressed individuals within the immediate work environment; and/or exposure to demands and pressures from persons other than immediate supervisor.</li></ul>Pay Range:$118,600.00 - $204,000.00<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at corporatetalentacquisition@oshkoshcorp.com.Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

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