Caterpillar
Industrial · Autonomous mining trucks
- HQ
- Irving, US
- Founded
- 1925
- Funding
- Public (CAT)
- Website
- caterpillar.com
Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, down 12% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $113k–$240k (avg $180k).
Caterpillar currently has 28 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 54%, are focused on agents, with serving infrastructure and data each accounting for 18% of the listings. The dominant function for these positions is Engineering. In the last 30 days, Caterpillar has posted 40 new AI roles, representing a significant increase of 1233% compared to the previous 30-day period.
Industrial · Autonomous mining trucks
Caterpillar currently has 45 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Data Scientist (3), Manager, Product Management (Platform) (3), Autonomy Development Engineer (2), Autonomy Engineering Development Specialist (2), Senior Autonomy Engineer (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Caterpillar's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (60%), data (27%), serving infrastructure (9%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Caterpillar is hiring AI talent in: United States (29 roles), China (2 roles), Belgium (2 roles).
Job postings at Caterpillar most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, llm observability, inference infra, evals.
In the past 30 days, Caterpillar has posted 75 new AI-related roles. That is a +53% change versus the prior 30 days (49 → 75).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Manager Software Engineering-DataOps/MLOps/AIOps/DevOps Senior Engineering Manager to lead DataOps, MLOps, AIOps, and DevOps capabilities, focusing on operationalizing data and AI at enterprise scale. The role involves driving the design, development, deployment, and intelligent operation of data platforms, ML systems, and cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and continuous optimization. Key responsibilities include strategic direction, platform strategy, ML lifecycle management, CI/CD, SRE principles, AI Ops adoption for proactive monitoring and remediation, and ensuring governance, security, and compliance. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Cat Digital/Cat Technology – Data Scientist/Technical Analyst This role focuses on developing models for asset management solutions using machine learning, deep learning, and Generative AI. Responsibilities include sourcing data, gathering requirements, applying digital technologies, and utilizing Generative AI for training, evaluation, prompt engineering, and creating agents/assistants/chatbots. The role also involves ensuring long-term connectivity through strategic planning and testing of various communication technologies. |
| AgentPost-train |
| 7 |
| Lead Data Scientist Lead Data Scientist at Caterpillar Digital, focusing on developing and scaling a Manufacturing & Supply Digital Platform powered by NVIDIA technologies. The role involves coaching junior data scientists, implementing AI/ML and LLM models, optimization algorithms, and leading validation of AI/ML models using industrial analytics metrics. Emphasis on connecting diverse systems, data-driven decision making, automation, and enhanced collaboration within the manufacturing lifecycle. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer, Gen AI Lead Software Engineer focused on Generative AI projects, building assistants, AI-infused processing pipelines, and tooling. The role involves developing and deploying Gen AI solutions using Python, frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph, and deploying services on AWS. Experience with modern Gen AI architectures and LLMs is required. | AgentServe | 7 |
| 状态监测、数据与 AI 实习生 This role focuses on building AI agents, including LLM-based agents, to support finite element simulation processes, and also involves AI-based tool health monitoring and data analysis for industrial applications. | AgentData | 7 |
| 视觉算法部署实习生 The role involves assisting in the development and implementation of visual solutions for autonomous driving, focusing on integrating and debugging embedded systems and visual components. It requires implementing core perception capabilities like object detection and obstacle recognition using computer vision and deep learning, and optimizing embedded inference. The role also involves dataset construction, quality control, and performance evaluation. | ServeData | 7 |
| Solutions Architect - AI & Procurement Solutions Architect focused on designing, governing, and delivering AI-driven solutions, specifically agents and automation, within procurement and purchasing platforms (Guided Buy, Coupa). This role involves architectural guidance, prompt strategy, orchestration patterns, data grounding, and ensuring compliance with enterprise and Responsible AI standards. It also includes code reviews and mentoring. | Agent | 7 |
| Planning Engineer Planning Engineer role at Caterpillar focused on path and behavior planning for autonomous mining vehicles in unstructured environments. Responsibilities include task-level route planning, trajectory and speed planning considering vehicle dynamics and terrain, and perception-based behavior planning. Requires strong C++/Python skills, familiarity with Linux and ROS/ROS2, and knowledge of ML/DL/RL applications in planning. Experience in autonomous driving planning and decision-making is essential, with mining/construction scene experience being a plus. | Agent | 7 |
| Autonomy Application Architect This role is for an Application Architect focused on applying autonomy technology to new haulage equipment at Caterpillar. The candidate will lead a team in developing and releasing autonomous and remote-control solutions, involving system design, implementation, and troubleshooting within the Caterpillar Command ecosystem. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Lead - AI, Cloud and Data engineering Technical Lead role focused on driving AI, GenAI, and advanced analytics initiatives within an enterprise context, leveraging AWS cloud platforms. Responsibilities include leading exploration and implementation of AI solutions, building PoCs, designing AI-enabled architectures, and automating processes. The role involves hands-on technical execution, innovation leadership, and team guidance, with a strong emphasis on Python development and AWS cloud services. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Digital Architect This Principal Digital Architect role focuses on defining and governing the architecture of large-scale digital platforms, with a specific emphasis on AI systems. The role involves owning end-to-end architecture solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and rapid delivery, while influencing enterprise technology strategy. Key responsibilities include creating AI reference architectures, assessing AI technologies, and guiding teams in taking AI systems from proof-of-concept to scaled production use, balancing classical ML, LLM-based approaches, and non-AI solutions. | ShipData | 7 |
| Global Data Science Architect The Global Data Science Architect will serve as the technical lead for data science architecture across Caterpillar’s Autonomy & Automation (A&A) programs, ensuring traditional AI and GenAI capabilities are designed to accelerate product innovation and internal tooling velocity. This role involves architecting and overseeing AI solutions, defining architectural standards for model delivery and deployment, and ensuring ISO 9001 compliance and alignment with AI governance. | Serve | 7 |
| Perception deployment engineer This role focuses on deploying, optimizing, and validating deep learning perception models on embedded platforms for autonomous mining vehicles. It involves using tools like TensorRT and CUDA for inference acceleration, performance analysis, and system-level engineering in a Linux Embedded environment. Collaboration with algorithm, fusion, system, and hardware teams is crucial for integration and evolution, as well as problem-solving during full-process debugging and testing. | Serve | 7 |
| Autonomy Simulation Engineer The role is responsible for the design and development of the simulation architecture for mine autonomous driving systems, covering backend control system simulation, autonomous vehicle simulation, subsystem simulation, and simulation and testing of autonomous driving algorithms. The goal is to achieve efficient verification and iteration in a virtual environment, reduce on-site testing risks, and improve development efficiency. Key responsibilities include building a simulation platform for multi-vehicle, multi-scenario collaborative testing, simulating backend logic, developing vehicle dynamics and sensor models, simulating core algorithms like path planning and obstacle avoidance, and developing test scenarios. Experience with simulation systems (CARLA/AirSim/Isaac Sim), ROS, C++, Python, and multi-agent simulation frameworks is required. Familiarity with machine learning/deep learning, especially data-driven or reinforcement learning methods in simulation, is a plus. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Digital Architect-1 Principal Digital Architect responsible for the overall architecture of the Manufacturing and Supply Digital Platform, designing capabilities for business requirements, applications, analytics, agents, and business intelligence. The role involves developing enterprise-wide data architecture, creating reusable data components, and leveraging NVIDIA technologies for digital twin, simulation, and optimization. Key responsibilities include developing architecture deliverables, solutioning use cases, evaluating and deploying new technologies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires extensive knowledge in Platform Architecture, Data Architecture, GenAI/AI Architecture (including Agentic AI solutions), Analytical Thinking, Effective Communications, and Requirements Analysis. Experience with public cloud, AI ecosystems (AWS Bedrock, LangChain), and data processing is highly valued. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on performing analytical tasks and initiatives on large datasets to support data-driven business decisions and product development. The role involves data gathering, processing, exploring semantic data capabilities using NLP and ML, defining data analysis requirements, presenting insights, and researching data model optimization and algorithms. It emphasizes a data-driven product development culture and enhancing customer engagements. | Data | 7 |
| Junior GenAI Engineer Junior GenAI Engineer role focused on implementing and deploying Generative AI solutions using Python, LLMs, and frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph. The role involves CI/CD, AWS deployment, and collaboration with data scientists. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Condition Monitoring Advisor - Reliability This role involves monitoring the health of industrial machinery by integrating and analyzing multi-source datasets, including fluid analysis, telematics, and inspection reports. It utilizes advanced analytics and machine learning models to detect patterns, predict failures, and generate actionable insights for optimized asset performance. The role also involves analyzing and correlating data from various sources, providing expert recommendations through software tools, and engaging with customers and dealers to enhance machine uptime and reduce total cost of ownership. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Data Engineer, Cat Digital Data & AI Data Engineer responsible for developing Python data pipelines to build business data objects, leveraging GenAI developer tools and frameworks like LangChain for enhanced productivity and problem-solving in an enterprise AI context. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer-Data Engineering This role focuses on building and maintaining scalable data pipelines on AWS, with a strong emphasis on Snowflake, graph databases, and vector databases. The engineer will design, develop, and optimize solutions for AI-driven use cases, including RAG and integrating vector databases with LLM applications. Experience with data ingestion for unstructured sources and knowledge graph pipelines is also crucial. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Controls Systems Senior Engineer This role focuses on developing and integrating Autonomy and Productivity capabilities for Caterpillar's Motor Grader team, advancing Machine Safety, Productivity, and Autonomy solutions. It involves developing algorithms for sensing, planning, and control to support machine automation, and potentially integrating AI & deep learning solutions. | Agent | 5 |
| Autonomy Validation Engineer The Autonomy Validation Engineer role focuses on integrating, validating, and troubleshooting autonomy hardware and software systems for autonomous machines. This includes onboard and offboard systems, planning, perception, and positioning technologies, and supporting infrastructure like ML development pipelines. The role involves developing MATLAB/Simulink models, configuring dSPACE SCALEXIO benches, designing wiring harnesses, integrating communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet), validating sensor simulations (LiDAR, Radar, Camera, GPS, IMU), and driving troubleshooting efforts. A strong understanding of AI concepts and experience with complex autonomous vehicle systems are required. | Agent | 5 |
| Solution Consultant-Continuous Improvement & Automation This role partners with business stakeholders to identify, design, and implement technology-enabled solutions that enhance processes, automate reporting, and scale AI-driven capabilities. The focus is on translating business needs into scalable digital solutions aligned with enterprise strategy, driving efficiency, standardization, and data-driven decision-making. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead Digital Engagement Consultant; Condition Monitoring This role focuses on driving adoption and engagement for Caterpillar's condition monitoring digital solutions, acting as a bridge between digital product teams and regional teams to accelerate adoption and realize business value. It involves developing engagement strategies, analyzing usage trends, designing marketing activations, and building partnerships to ensure dealers and customers fully leverage the capabilities of these products. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Search Lead Software Engineer for eCommerce Search at Caterpillar, responsible for technical direction and execution of advanced search solutions. This role involves defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, introducing advanced capabilities like NLP and vector search, optimizing search performance with KPIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires experience with search products (OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, etc.), distributed systems, programming (Java, Python, Scala), AI code generation tools, and applying ML to improve search relevance. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer on the Data Engineering team responsible for developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications. Experience with AWS, Snowflake, and GenAI developer tools is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Controls System Senior Engineer This role focuses on integrating advanced control systems for Medium Wheel Loaders, with a strong emphasis on autonomy, connectivity, and electrification. The engineer will support new technology introduction projects, define and deliver control systems and UI/UX features, and perform on-machine evaluations. A key aspect is staying current with innovative technologies like machine learning algorithms, adaptive controls, and vision/perception systems, and mentoring junior engineers. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Analytics / Machine Learning Analyst Performs analytical tasks and leads data initiatives on large volumes of data to generate insights that support data-driven business decisions, leveraging statistical analysis, data modeling, visualization, NLP, and machine learning techniques. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Autonomy Middleware Engineer Senior Autonomy Middleware Engineer at Caterpillar, focusing on developing the core autonomy development framework for on-board applications in harsh mining and construction environments. The role involves designing, coding, and validating production-quality C++ software, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and integrating hardware and software solutions. Experience with AI concepts, ROS, and C++ development in Linux environments is required. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Architect IT – Product Engineering This role is for a Principal IT Enterprise Architect focused on Product Engineering at Caterpillar. The primary responsibility is to shape the strategic direction of global Engineering platforms and systems, driving digital Engineering initiatives and technology modernization. The role involves influencing enterprise technology decisions, guiding the digital thread transformation, enabling AI-driven engineering, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Key areas include defining future-state architecture for modern engineering platforms with an AI-first approach, leading integration strategies, and evaluating emerging technologies. | — | 5 |
| Manager Software Engineering Manager of Software Engineering at Caterpillar Digital, leading teams to deliver innovative digital solutions leveraging AI capabilities for customers and dealers. The role involves overseeing design, development, and implementation of complex solutions, providing technical direction, and managing team performance. Experience with generative AI principles and product implementation is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Senior Autonomy Project Team Lead Senior Autonomy Project Team Lead responsible for Validation Leadership of AI-powered autonomous solutions in the construction industry. This role focuses on Product Quality, driving efficiency in AI-based product validation, virtual product development, and hardware-in-the-loop. The lead will manage priorities, coordinate defect management, and lead continuous improvement initiatives. | Ship | 5 |
| Platform Engineer - On Prem Kubernetes Platform Seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a next-generation on-premise Kubernetes platform supporting mission-critical applications. This role involves modernizing software delivery using Generative AI and agentic development tools, acting as a human-in-the-loop technical leader for AI-assisted engineering. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Manufacturing Project Engineer The role focuses on researching, developing, and deploying physical automation technologies in manufacturing, including robotics, machine learning, and vision systems, to improve process capability, efficiency, quality, and cost. It involves evaluating existing processes, designing and testing automation concepts, and supporting installation and commissioning. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering – Factory & Product Assurance Senior Manager role responsible for defining, building, and scaling cybersecurity engineering and assurance programs across industrial manufacturing environments, operational technology (OT), and embedded product ecosystems. Drives integration of cybersecurity into factory operations and connected products by establishing vision, strategy, and execution models. Leverages AI and automation to enhance security control assessments and assurance activities. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on developing data-driven solutions for dealer inventory management and customer service outcomes within Caterpillar's Product Support and Logistics Division. Responsibilities include data collection, processing, analysis, developing data models, applying ML/NLP techniques, collaborating with stakeholders, generating insights, and researching improvements to analytical approaches using modern data platforms. | Data | 5 |
| Automation Engineer This role supports the design, development, and testing of intelligent automation solutions, including AI agents and digital workflows. The engineer will implement predefined agent behaviors, prompts, and integrations under guidance, while also contributing to IT operational services. The role combines emerging AI capabilities with foundational IT operations, enabling gradual growth into more advanced automation and agent development. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Scientist (Santa Catarina Facility) This role focuses on performing advanced analytical tasks using statistical analysis, machine learning, and data engineering to extract actionable insights from large datasets. The Data Scientist will lead data collection, mining, and processing, apply NLP and text analytics, communicate findings through visualizations, and optimize data models and algorithms for improved accuracy and efficiency. The role emphasizes data-driven decision-making and innovation within an enterprise context. | Data | 5 |
| Customer Experience & Market Insights Consultant This role focuses on customer experience and market insights, translating customer voice into business decisions for products, services, and digital offerings. It involves executing research projects, analyzing data, synthesizing insights, and influencing stakeholders to drive business impact. The role also aims to standardize and scale insights delivery, with a mention of leveraging AI to automate work. | — | 5 |
| IT Analyst - Applications This role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing AI-driven and automated solutions for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). It involves identifying processes for automation, designing workflows for AI/ML capabilities, building data structures using various sources and the IT Data Lake, and leveraging Python and PowerShell for analysis and insights. The role also includes creating and maintaining Power BI reports, PowerApps, and Flows. | Data | 5 |
| Lean Value Stream Transformation & Automation Lead Lead enterprise-wide transformation of Service Operations by orchestrating Lean Value Stream Transformation (VST) initiatives, identifying and optimizing workflows. Drive AI-enabled solutions (AI agents, automations, workflows) in collaboration with development teams, ensuring deployment, adoption, and scaling across the organization. Establish governance, standards, and metrics for Lean operations, automation, and AI enablement. | Agent | 5 |
| Azure Cloud Engineer This role focuses on designing, building, and operating Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services that support enterprise-scale AI and machine learning workloads. The engineer will deploy and integrate Azure AI services, automate infrastructure, and manage PaaS solutions, acting as a technical contact for Azure platform services. The role emphasizes automation, DevOps, and problem-solving within a global, distributed environment, with a focus on enabling AI integration and modernizing enterprise technology platforms. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Autonomy Engineering Development Specialist This role focuses on designing, developing, and testing software architecture for remote control and autonomy systems on embedded platforms, utilizing AUTOSAR and Embedded C/C++. It involves integrating AI concepts into machine applications, with a strong emphasis on software architecture, real-time embedded control, and functional safety within the robotics domain. | Agent | 5 |
| Quality Enterprise Capability Owner This role focuses on developing and deploying quality visibility and predictive capabilities within a manufacturing context, aiming to improve operational excellence. It involves partnering with various teams to embed quality requirements, define standards, and analyze data for proactive decision-making. While AI integration is mentioned, the core function is quality management and process improvement in manufacturing. | — | 5 |
| Quality Analyst This role supports the integration of AI-driven and agentic solutions into quality processes within Caterpillar's Product Support and Logistics Division. The Quality Analyst will focus on data mining, analytics, and digitalization to improve quality and efficiency, contributing to the development and deployment of the Global Quality roadmap. | Agent | 5 |
| ALTERNANCE (Master) Développeur Solutions Digitales et IA pour les Processus Achats F/H (Réf 06-2026) This role focuses on developing, deploying, and maintaining digital solutions using Microsoft Power Platform and a central data storage (datalake) to simplify and enhance purchasing processes. A key aspect involves leveraging AI to improve efficiency, such as automating inspection plan governance. | Agent | 5 |
| 2026校园招聘-智能智造数据分析工程师 Entry-level role for recent graduates to build and optimize data-driven solutions for manufacturing processes, focusing on data collection, analysis, predictive modeling, and visualization using tools like Python, SQL, and Power BI. | Data | 5 |
| Manufacturing Project Engineer The Manufacturing Project Engineer role at Caterpillar focuses on advancing operational performance by driving improvements in manufacturing processes, safety, and efficiency. This involves researching, developing, and deploying physical automation technologies, including robotics, automation systems, machine learning, and vision-based applications. The role supports projects across New Product Introduction (NPI) and Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), evaluates existing processes for automation opportunities, and designs, develops, and validates automation concepts. It also involves supporting installation, commissioning, and stabilization of automation equipment, applying problem-solving techniques, and collaborating with design engineering on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Automation (DFA). The role also includes proposing and supporting research projects and communicating technical findings. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Engineering Manager - Data Quality Engineering Manager for Data Quality at Caterpillar, leading a team to ensure accuracy, integrity, consistency, and reliability of enterprise connectivity data. The role involves defining data quality strategy, establishing frameworks, designing validation solutions, and driving adoption of AI/ML for data profiling, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis. It also includes people management, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring data quality for analytics, AI/ML models, and business decision-making. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Caterpillar, focusing on Parts Sales to End Users (STU) reporting and forecasting. The role involves end-to-end data architecture, analytics solutions, data pipelines, Power BI dashboards, and leveraging machine learning for forecasting. Requires strong SQL, Python, Snowflake, and Power BI skills, with experience in cloud platforms like AWS. | Data | 5 |