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The Role
Develop and lead production C++ software for embedded operator safety systems in heavy equipment. Responsibilities include perception pipelines, camera and sensor integration, collision mitigation, machine vision, software architecture, troubleshooting, testing, release, design reviews, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring. The role supports real-time safety applications using edge computing and sensing technologies for construction and mining equipment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global 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.
The Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer uses their experience to provide technical contribution in the design, development, integration, and deployment of production software that helps protect operators, personnel, and equipment in heavy equipment environments. Working with a high degree of independence, this role develops robust C++ software for perception-enabled safety features, operator awareness, and related safety-system capabilities used in mining, construction, and other demanding applications.
This individual serves as a hands-on technical leader within an operator safety systems team that supports projects such as Collision Mitigation, Camera/Radar/Sensor Integration, Machine Vision and Perception Pipelines, and Embedded Edge Software for Heavy Equipment. In doing so, this person would be responsible for influencing software architecture, implementation quality, system integration practices, and engineering decisions while mentoring other developers and partnering closely with systems, validation, product, and field teams.
What You Will Do:
What You Have:
Consideration for Top Candidates:
Additional Information:
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Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
October 13, 2026 - October 18, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global 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.
The Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer uses their experience to provide technical contribution in the design, development, integration, and deployment of production software that helps protect operators, personnel, and equipment in heavy equipment environments. Working with a high degree of independence, this role develops robust C++ software for perception-enabled safety features, operator awareness, and related safety-system capabilities used in mining, construction, and other demanding applications.
This individual serves as a hands-on technical leader within an operator safety systems team that supports projects such as Collision Mitigation, Camera/Radar/Sensor Integration, Machine Vision and Perception Pipelines, and Embedded Edge Software for Heavy Equipment. In doing so, this person would be responsible for influencing software architecture, implementation quality, system integration practices, and engineering decisions while mentoring other developers and partnering closely with systems, validation, product, and field teams.
What You Will Do:
- Design, implement, test, and release production-quality C++ software for operator safety systems on heavy equipment
- Develop and integrate software components that support operator awareness, personnel detection, collision mitigation, and safety-oriented machine responses
- Build and maintain camera, sensor, and perception data pipelines for real-time or near-real-time safety applications
- Lead software architecture and design trade-off discussions with a focus on reliability, maintainability, latency, diagnosability, and field supportability
- Collaborate with systems engineering, validation, product, and field teams to translate safety-system needs into clear software requirements and implementation plans
- Troubleshoot complex software and system issues using logs, traces, telemetry, sensor data, profiling tools, and field observations
- Facilitate design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and technical discussions across cross-functional engineering teams
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to developers, systems engineers, stakeholders, and leadership
- Mentor engineers and improve team execution through strong development practices, technical guidance, and example
What You Have:
- Programming:
- Advanced C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, or safety-oriented systems
- Interprets system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex safety-system features
- Strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
- Applies structured, maintainable software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, and field-support constraints
- Software Product Design/Architecture:
- Demonstrates experience designing software for complex systems involving sensors, perception, edge processing, machine interfaces, and safety-oriented behavior
- Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
- Displays experience in estimating the time to develop a specific design of a proposed product.
- Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
- Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.
- Problem Solving:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decisions on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems
- Technical Troubleshooting:
- Discovers, analyzes, and resolves software or application problems.
- Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
- Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.
- Communicating Complex Concepts:
- Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
- Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.
- Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field - or commensurate industry experience.
Consideration for Top Candidates:
- Extensive experience as a Development Engineer supporting engineering projects on robotics, autonomous or semi-autonomous systems.
- Strong experience with robotics, autonomy, or perception software, including one or more areas such as machine vision, sensor fusion, perception pipelines, positioning, planning, controls, or operator-assist features
- Experience using GStreamer to build, debug, optimize, or integrate camera and video-processing pipelines
- Hands-on machine vision experience, including camera calibration, image processing, object detection, tracking, perception model integration, or performance tuning on edge hardware
- Experience developing software for safety-oriented systems, including requirements-driven development, hazard-aware design decisions, verification planning, and disciplined release practices
- Prior experience supporting operator awareness, collision mitigation, personnel detection, proximity detection, or other safety-critical machine systems preferred
- Experience with cameras and sensing technologies such as radar, LiDAR, GNSS/GPS, ultrasonic, stereo vision, thermal cameras, or other perception sensors preferred
- Experience with real-time controllers, embedded Linux, edge computing, GPU-accelerated processing, or field-deployed compute platforms preferred
- Experience in Construction or Mining Industries preferred
Additional Information:
- This position is to work onsite at our Irving TX office.
- Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position
- This position may require travel up to 30%
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Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
October 13, 2026 - October 18, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
Skills Required
- Advanced C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, or safety-oriented systems
- Ability to interpret system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex safety-system features
- Strong engineering practices, debugging, and profiling skills
- Experience applying structured, maintainable software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, and field-support constraints
- Experience designing software for complex systems involving sensors, perception, edge processing, machine interfaces, and safety-oriented behavior
- Ability to evaluate software architecture alternatives, estimate development time, facilitate design reviews, and analyze design trade-offs
- Ability to identify problems, document resolution alternatives, analyze risks and benefits, and use diagnostic tools
- Ability to discover, analyze, and resolve software or application problems using code, logs, and system information
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly using effective presentation and simplification techniques
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or commensurate industry experience
- Extensive development engineering experience supporting robotics, autonomous, or semi-autonomous systems
- Experience with robotics, autonomy, or perception software, including machine vision, sensor fusion, perception pipelines, positioning, planning, controls, or operator-assist features
- Experience using GStreamer to build, debug, optimize, or integrate camera and video-processing pipelines
- Hands-on machine vision experience with camera calibration, image processing, object detection, tracking, perception model integration, or edge-hardware performance tuning
- Experience developing safety-oriented systems using requirements-driven development, hazard-aware design, verification planning, and disciplined release practices
- Experience supporting operator awareness, collision mitigation, personnel detection, proximity detection, or other safety-critical machine systems
- Experience with radar, LiDAR, GNSS/GPS, ultrasonic, stereo vision, thermal cameras, or other perception sensors
- Experience with real-time controllers, embedded Linux, edge computing, GPU-accelerated processing, or field-deployed compute platforms
- Experience in construction or mining industries
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Caterpillar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans are highlighted as a standout element, with a strong company match and an additional company contribution noted for certain groups. Feedback suggests this is a notable strength of the package, with specifics dependent on plan and eligibility.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, HSAs/FSAs, wellness resources, and mental-health support through the EAP. Feedback suggests these offerings are competitive and broadly well regarded.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and adoption assistance are explicitly included, with adoption reimbursement and supportive leave policies emphasized. Feedback suggests family support is generous and a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., responsible for bringing digital capabilities to our world-famous yellow iron. With over 1.5M connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics and AI capabilities to help solve our customers' toughest challenges.
Why Work With Us
At Cat Digital, we're accelerating Caterpillar's digital transformation to help customers solve their toughest challenges. Our teams use enterprise-wide data, emerging technologies, and customer insights to deliver solutions that drive real-world impact. Join us as we create innovative experiences that help customers succeed and power the world aro
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