Autonomy Engineering Specialist

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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.

Role Definition
This role leads the end-to-end design, integration, validation, and deployment of Edge AI solutions across Caterpillar's machine portfolio, ensuring they integrate seamlessly with each machine platform.

The engineer collaborates across L6 Machine and Autonomy Systems, electrical, hardware, software, and cybersecurity teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions throughout the product lifecycle.

What You Will Do:

• Lead product group adoption of these solutions, ensuring standardized physical and software interfaces align with product group software releases.
• Develop system requirements, interface definitions, and functional specifications for integration between edge systems and Machine Software.
• Translate customer, regulatory, and business requirements into technical system solutions.
• Define clear integration strategies and support product group alignment and adoption.
• Drive improvements that enable system teams to effectively deploy and manage edge AI-based features.
• Plan and track system-level testing, validation, and verification of integrated Machine and edge AI features.
• Support vehicle- and machine-level integration testing across lab, bench, and field environments.
• Continuously improve machine and edge AI feature integration using field data and customer feedback.
• Provide people and technical leadership in system integration and software development to advance the enterprise machine and edge AI compute feature strategy.
• Communicate program status and development timing to stakeholders and product teams.

What You Will Have:

• 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.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Embedded Systems: Knowledge of embedded systems and their applications; ability to develop embedded systems with varying levels of complexity to control the operations of the machine it is embedded within.
• Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Ability to approach communication challenges from various angles based upon audience.
• Experience and knowledge of embedded systems and multi-system integration.
• Involvement with NPI deployment in machine programs
• Capable of successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems using standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Strong communication skills
  
  

Additional Information:

• Position is on-site, 5 days per week in Irving, TX
• Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Caterpillar policies.
• Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Travel is 10%

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Summary Pay Range:

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

Posting Dates:

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.

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