Joshua Fossum
Engineering Specialist - Product Compliance & Support (Functional Safety & Risk Assessment) at Caterpillar Inc.
Peoria Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Fossum is an engineering specialist with 15 years of hands-on experience in embedded controls and a decade-plus focus on enterprise functional safety and risk assessment at Caterpillar. He leads global compliance for industrial safety standards (IEC/ISO families and SOTIF), authors and reviews safety cases and system analyses, and serves as a trusted lead auditor and assessor across large product portfolios. His background in embedded software and control systems—where he earned patents for excavator motion and powertrain innovations—gives him practical credibility when translating complex standards into testable, auditable requirements. Joshua designs and delivers case-based training and mentorship that makes rigorous safety practices accessible to senior engineers and technical stewards, and he actively experiments with AI tools like LLMs and AI-powered IDEs to streamline compliance workflows. Known for embedding lessons from launches into scalable processes, he combines technical depth, regulatory savvy, and a pragmatic focus on delivering certifiable, real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Github Skills (2)
game-engine2
android2
Github contributions (3)
fossumja/TiltyRocket
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
game-enginegameandroidapplication-engine
fossumja/calamari
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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