Senior Project Engineer

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

From developing products that run on alternative power to productivity-enhancing precision tech, we are delivering solutions that benefit people – and they are possible thanks to people like you. If the opportunity to build your skills as part of a collaborative, global team excites you, you’re in the right place.

Grow a Career. Build a Future!

Be part of this company at the forefront of agriculture and construction, that passionately innovates to drive customer efficiency and success. And we know innovation can’t happen without collaboration. So, everything we do at CNH Industrial is about reaching new heights as one team, always delivering for the good of our customers.

Job Purpose

The Senior Project Engineer owns planning and execution for CNH's embedded controls software organization, working with multiple teams of engineers delivering parallel software releases for a single product line. This role sets the standard for how software programs are planned, tracked, and delivered at CNH, while working within the company's agile framework. The Senior Project Engineer acts as a trusted partner to engineering leadership, driving strategic improvements to how the organization plans capacity, manages risk, and reports on progress. In addition, the role is responsible for hardware logistics and test bench maintenance that keep the engineering organization productive day to day.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the SAFe or Agile framework used across the team, including sprint planning, PI planning, and ceremony facilitation
• Develop and maintain integrated software release plans, schedules, and milestone tracking across multiple parallel releases within the product line
• Lead gate reviews and milestone sign-offs, ensuring deliverables meet entry and exit criteria before progressing
• Support resource planning with engineering leadership and capacity forecasting across teams, identifying staffing gaps and rebalancing workload as priorities shift
• Track program budgets and report cost performance to engineering leadership on a regular cadence
• Build and maintain Jira dashboards that surface software quality metrics, release health, and KPIs for the team and leadership
• Lead software quality improvement initiatives, applying lean and process improvement methodologies to remove waste and tighten cycle times
• Coordinate cross-functional activities with global engineering centers, suppliers, and other internal groups across multiple time zones
• Manage defect tracking and requirements traceability in Jira and Polarion, ensuring documentation is complete, current, and audit-ready
• Own hardware logistics for the team, including ordering, receiving, inventory management, and allocation of controllers, sensors, and related components
• Maintain test benches in a working state through scheduled upkeep, configuration management, and coordination of repairs or upgrades as needed
• Communicate program status, risks, and mitigation plans to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, up to and including executive audiences

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Software or related Engineering field
• 7 or more years of experience in program management, technical project management, or a similar engineering leadership role supporting embedded software development
• Demonstrated technical fluency in embedded systems concepts, sufficient to engage credibly with software, controls, and hardware engineers
• Proven track record leading large, multi-team programs with parallel release trains
• Hands‑on experience with Jira for defect tracking, sprint management, and dashboard creation
• Experience with Polarion or a comparable requirements management tool
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project or similar planning and scheduling tools
• Working knowledge of process improvement and lean methodologies, with examples of applying them at scale to engineering workflows
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies at the team and program level, including PI planning
• Track record of managing schedules, budgets, and risks across multiple parallel workstreams with executive visibility
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, supply chain, supplier, and leadership stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering or MBA
• Prior experience in the agriculture or construction equipment industry
• PMP, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or other advanced Agile certifications
• Experience implementing or scaling SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) across multiple teams
• Deep familiarity with the embedded software development lifecycle, from requirements through validation and release
• Hands‑on experience with lab or test bench instrumentation, including setup, calibration, and troubleshooting
• Experience building Power BI dashboards or similar reporting tools for engineering metrics
• Prior experience mentoring or leading a team of project or program managers

Pay Transparency

The annual salary for this role is $106,725 - $163,645 plus any applicable bonus (Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as skill, experience and qualification for the role.)

For roles open across multiple locations, the salary range indicated refers to the primary location. If a different location is considered, the applicable salary range will be communicated to candidates prior to the first interview.

What We Offer

We offer dynamic career opportunities across an international landscape. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to delivering value for all our employees and fostering a culture of respect.

At CNH, we understand that the best solutions come from the diverse experiences and skills of our people. Here, you will be empowered to grow your career, to follow your passion, and help build a better future. To support our employees, we offer regional comprehensive benefits, including:

• Savings & Retirement benefits
• Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility & Family building support
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off

US applicants: CNH Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights by viewing the federal "Know Your Rights" poster here. CNH Industrial participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. You can view additional information here.

Canada applicants: CNH Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, place of origin, disability, marital status, family status, age, or any other ground prohibited by applicable provincial human rights legislation.

Explore the exciting and rewarding career opportunities in our engineering and technical departments, where you can grow your skills and experience, advance your career, and meet customer needs with innovative solutions.

Technology Creates New Opportunities to Feed the World

We partner with customers and listen to their needs, using their feedback to innovate technology that utilizes connectivity, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

We have shaped the history of agriculture with pioneering firsts spanning over three centuries.

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(DESCRIPTION) Breaking New Ground: Innovation Sustainability Productivity
(SPEECH) TIM ROSZHART: Farmers have a really important job, not just helping to grow the food that feeds all of us but to do it in a way that’s sustainable for us as a people and us as a planet.
DAN ESLINGER: CNH partners with our customers to enable their business to operate. That’s through the use of technology, deployment of capital, dealer and support networks, and everything that’s required for them to operate their business successfully.
TIM ROSZHART: So for those workers that were blessed enough to get into the ag industry into farming, it’s really around how do we amplify or expand the capabilities of what they can get done.
MATT AMES: It’s an exciting time for the tractors and for the farmers as these technologies mature and these designs are put into use and are going to be rolled out to our customers.
TIM ROSZHART: With technology, we’re able to make decisions that care for every square foot of ground. It’s a great way to take interest in connectivity and mobile apps, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, these things that we see in other industries, in automotive, even in the gaming industry, and others and how to– can actually bring those interests and those passions and those skills and use it for this great purpose to help feed the world. That’s pretty cool.
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(DESCRIPTION) Sunrays beaming down over a wheat field.
(SPEECH) SPEAKER: The pace of change has always been fast.
(DESCRIPTION) Tractors plow through a field.
(SPEECH) CNH and our brands have never stood still.
(DESCRIPTION) Black-and-white photographs of equipment from days gone by.
(SPEECH) Our legacy is farming’s progress.
(DESCRIPTION) Text, 1869, First steam engine tractor. 1892, First gasoline-powered tractor.
(SPEECH) We have written the history of agriculture for over 180 years,
(DESCRIPTION) 1904, First all-steel thresher.
(SPEECH) always innovating for the farmer, our customer,
(DESCRIPTION) 1917, World’s first mass produced tractor.
(SPEECH) helping generation after generation get the job done,
(DESCRIPTION) 1923, Farmall. First all-purpose implement tractor. 1940, First self-tying automatic pick-up baler.
(SPEECH) an endless dedication that has led to more firsts than any other agriculture company.
(DESCRIPTION) 1943, First commercial mechanical cotton picker. 1952, Europe’s first self-propelled combine harvester.
(SPEECH) We revolutionized and kept reinventing for the industry,
(DESCRIPTION) 1960, First self-propelled windrower.
(SPEECH) making operations more efficient,
(DESCRIPTION) 1964, First mower-conditioner.
(SPEECH) more effective,
(DESCRIPTION) 1974, World’s first twin rotor combine.
(SPEECH) more profitable.
(DESCRIPTION) 1975, First self-propelled grape harvester. 1977, First single rotor combine. 1980, First in-cab automatic sprayer control system.
(SPEECH) Utilizing precision technology to drive higher yields.
(DESCRIPTION) 1995, First commercial use of integrated precision farming. 1996, First tractor with four-tracked system.
(SPEECH) And in changing times, we are working to make our world more sustainable.
(DESCRIPTION) 2009, First wireless services to sync field to office. 2009, First zero emissions hydrogen-powered tractor.
(SPEECH) Our concepts challenge the status quo.
(DESCRIPTION) 2016, First autonomous row crop tractor concept. 2017, First smart application system with individual nozzle control.
(SPEECH) Introducing the future today,
(DESCRIPTION) 2019, First contactless camera system to navigate row crops. 2019, First production 100% methane-powered tractor.
(SPEECH) paving the way with electrification and alternative fuels
(DESCRIPTION) 2020, First commercial autonomous solutions for agriculture.
(SPEECH) we stand with the world’s farmers
(DESCRIPTION) 2022, First electric tractor prototype with autonomous features.
(SPEECH) doing the hard yards,
(DESCRIPTION) 2022, First autonomous spreader.
(SPEECH) carrying the banner of progress,
(DESCRIPTION) 2022, World’s first liquefied natural gas tractor.
(SPEECH) forever breaking new ground.
(DESCRIPTION) Logo, CNH. Breaking New Ground. Innovation, Sustainability, Productivity.
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A farmer oversees the growth of verdant plants.
Text, Grow Together. A diverse group of young women at work in a number of office settings.
Text, Diverse.
Workers in a warehouse. People hard at work in office settings.
Text, Inclusive. A team works together in collaboration. A worker walks through an office. Workers assemble machines. Text, One Team.
Text, Flexible. A sports team; construction workers on the job; men working as a team.
Text, At the forefront of Precision Technology. Images of technology and agricultural equipment in the field.
Using technology to modernize a wheelchair and modify a vehicle. Text, Digitalization.
Text, Electrification. Alternative fuels.
Text, Well Being. A dad with his baby on an outdoor swing. A couple of surfers head into the ocean.
Text, Our people make the difference. The faces of a diverse group of smiling people.
Text, Join us on our journey.
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CNH (NYSE: CNHI) is a global capital goods company specializing in equipment and services for Agriculture and Construction. The Company operates commercially through its brand portfolio which includes Case IH, New Holland Agriculture, CASE and New Holland Construction Equipment.