Jobs at Caterpillar

Design, prototype, test, and deploy software applications and emerging technology solutions. Evaluate generative AI, LLMs, automation, cloud services, APIs, and modern development platforms; convert ideas into proofs of concept, pilots, and production features. Apply secure, scalable engineering practices while collaborating with product, architecture, data, security, operations, and business teams. Communicate technical tradeoffs, mentor others, document learnings, and help transition successful experiments into enterprise-ready solutions.

Maintains cross-program portfolio intelligence for autonomous construction initiatives. Synthesizes roadmaps, dependencies, milestones, capacity, risks, suppliers, partners, and customer learning into scenarios, trend analyses, executive reporting, and decision-ready recommendations. Supports roadmap governance, traceability, intake alignment, prioritization, and leadership reviews while preserving authoritative sources and accountability boundaries.

Develop and deploy AI-driven annotation, labeling, and captioning systems for robotics, computer vision, autonomy, and Vision-Language-Action datasets. Train and evaluate machine learning models, build scalable data pipelines, integrate human-in-the-loop workflows, and improve annotation quality. The role requires production software engineering, distributed systems, sensor-data expertise, and experience with computer vision or autonomous systems. Work is onsite in Irving, Texas, with relocation assistance and visa sponsorship available.

Leads business operations, planning, performance management, executive decision support, and cross-functional coordination for a technology and autonomy organization. The role manages leadership operating rhythms, tracks commitments, monitors organizational performance, develops dashboards and scorecards, supports workforce and budget planning, and leads strategic initiatives. It partners with Finance, HR, Product Management, Engineering, and PMO teams to improve organizational effectiveness and enable leadership execution.

Develop and deploy AI-powered annotation, labeling, and captioning systems for robotics, computer vision, autonomy, and VLA datasets. Build data pipelines supporting human review, quality validation, and dataset publication; train and evaluate machine learning models; integrate Caterpillar systems with annotation providers; and ensure scalable, observable production services for heavy-equipment and construction environments.

Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines, microservices, cloud data platforms, and real-time or batch processing systems. The role uses Python, Java, AWS services, SQL, streaming technologies, automated testing, data quality controls, monitoring, and CI/CD. Responsibilities include solution architecture, data integration, stakeholder collaboration, performance tuning, production support, and ensuring reliability across distributed data ecosystems supporting construction autonomy initiatives.

Develop simulation logic, behavioral models, digital twins, and real-time 3D visualization experiences. Build high-fidelity scenes and environments with NVIDIA Omniverse, USD, and Omniverse Kit. Validate simulation models through data correlation, scenario testing, regression testing, and real-world telematics data. Contribute to integration pipelines, scripting utilities, automated testing frameworks, and modular C++ and Python libraries across digital-twin platforms and simulation engines.

Develop and deploy generative AI assistants, processing pipelines, tooling, and software using Python or Go. Build FastAPI services, edge-device components, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS infrastructure. Apply LLMs, prompt engineering, and modern agent architectures using LangChain and LangGraph. Collaborate with data scientists to productionize scalable analytics and AI solutions, and assist with Airflow-based machine learning pipelines. The role also requires software architecture, testing, technical writing, and cross-functional collaboration.

Leads development of high-fidelity digital twins, machine dynamics models, and reduced-order models for autonomous construction equipment. Establishes NVIDIA Newton simulation standards, validates models against real-world data, and enables robotics, autonomy, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and virtual validation workflows. Collaborates across engineering, AI, controls, hydraulics, and machine systems teams while shaping Caterpillar’s long-term physical AI and simulation strategy.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll design and implement complex solutions in Dynamics 365, leading projects and ensuring high-quality applications while collaborating across teams.

Develop and maintain Python data pipelines that support business applications. Design, implement, and deploy software solutions, CI/CD pipelines, source-to-target mappings, and automated unit and integration tests. Resolve complex technical issues, interpret engineering requirements, promote software quality practices, and identify team improvement opportunities. The role also involves AWS cloud services, Snowflake, Git, and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads a Scrum team developing and modernizing Salesforce Sales Cloud and digital marketing capabilities. Designs scalable, secure solutions, integrates Salesforce with backend systems and portals, oversees deployment and quality standards, collaborates with architects and product owners, supports testing and debugging, and mentors junior developers. Requires extensive Salesforce architecture, configuration, coding, integration, deployment, Agile, and certification experience.

Leads enterprise-scale data architecture and solution design for Caterpillar’s digital ecosystem. Responsibilities include developing data architecture deliverables, designing system-to-system data flows and conceptual and logical data models, evaluating and deploying data solutions, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to address business requirements. Preferred experience includes cloud architecture using AWS or Azure, ETL, Snowflake, semantic modeling, and extensive data modeling.

Leads a scrum team developing AI-driven annotation automation for robotics, autonomy, computer vision, and VLA datasets. Designs and deploys automated labeling and captioning systems, trains and evaluates machine learning models, builds data pipelines incorporating human review and quality validation, integrates annotation providers, and improves service reliability and scalability. Provides hands-on technical leadership and mentorship while applying technologies such as NVIDIA Cosmos, computer vision, multimodal AI, and sensor-data workflows.

Leads cybersecurity strategy, risk management, incident readiness, compliance, and security governance for Caterpillar’s Power and Energy segment. Oversees protection of manufacturing and operational technology, CRM, supply chain, and connected product systems. Translates enterprise policies into segment controls, manages budgets and suppliers, leads audits and response exercises, and advises executives on cyber risk. Builds global security teams and promotes security awareness across business and plant operations.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines, microservices, and cloud-native data platforms. Design real-time and batch processing solutions using Python and AWS services, establish data quality and testing frameworks, integrate enterprise systems, and monitor production platforms. Collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions supporting construction autonomy initiatives.

Analyzes large datasets for Caterpillar’s Power and Energy Drivetrain team, developing data models, applying machine learning and natural language processing, and delivering business insights. Responsibilities include data gathering and mining, requirements definition, algorithm and model optimization, visualization, stakeholder collaboration, and solution deployment. The role also supports process improvement, standardized practices, enterprise data platform use, and decision-making recommendations.

Build, enhance, deploy, and operate secure enterprise web applications and reporting solutions. Develop full-stack systems using Python, Django, React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and SQL; manage Azure cloud deployments, CI/CD, source control, monitoring, testing, and continuous improvement. Collaborate with Finance, IT, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate needs into scalable solutions, conduct code reviews, assess emerging technologies, and communicate application risks and performance insights.

Leads business analysis and solution definition for supply chain capabilities within Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related ERP systems. Partners with supply chain, operations, logistics, IT, dealers, vendors, and delivery teams to define processes, requirements, data needs, user stories, acceptance criteria, testing, releases, training, and change management. Supports planning, procurement, inventory, warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, reporting, integrations, governance, and adoption across a global dealer network.

Owns the vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, quality, support model, and stakeholder alignment for CatDealer.com. Translates dealer and business needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans. Leads Agile sprint and release activities, UAT, governance, compliance, accessibility, search, incident response, and continuous improvement while coordinating engineering, support, legal, content, and dealer-facing teams.