Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, down 30% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $113k–$240k (avg $180k).
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 mention: Software Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, Debugging, Python.
In the past 30 days, Caterpillar has posted 70 new AI-related roles. That is a +40% change versus the prior 30 days (50 → 70).
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.
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| Analista de Calidad This role is responsible for collecting, processing, and analyzing information generated in inspection processes to ensure product quality standards and traceability. It involves developing reports, updating metrics on dashboards, and performing root cause analysis for continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Senior Integration Engineer (Remote Services) This role is responsible for the design, integration, validation, and deployment of remote services on vehicles or machines, ensuring seamless integration of hardware, software, communications, and cloud-based services for features like remote monitoring, diagnostics, and fleet management. The engineer will work cross-functionally with various teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable remote service solutions throughout the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Engineer Manufacturing Engineer role at Caterpillar focused on supporting production, costs, quality, safety, and environmental requirements for manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include identifying and implementing enhancements to equipment, tooling, and processes, monitoring reliability, and providing engineering support for equipment and facilities. Requires knowledge of manufacturing processes, lean manufacturing, and collaborative automation. |
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| Production Associate (Paint) - 1st, 2nd & 3rd Shifts This role is for a Production Associate in the paint department at Caterpillar, focusing on operating paint and coating equipment for industrial products. It does not require prior paint experience but involves physical tasks and adherence to safety procedures. The role is in the industrial manufacturing domain and is not AI-related. | — | 0 |
| Field Frac Technician I Field Frac Technician I installs, maintains, and repairs frac equipment including valves, chokes, casing, and tubing heads. Requires driving a company vehicle, adherence to safety protocols, and performing repairs on customer property and rental assets. The role involves inspecting, rebuilding, operating, and troubleshooting equipment, providing customer service, and preparing service orders. Must be at least 21 years old with a clean driving record and six months of related experience. | — | 0 |
| Orders & Demand Consultant This role focuses on analyzing and executing processes related to product configuration, pricing, and compatibility to support regional sales and order fulfillment. It involves gathering and validating data, partnering with various teams to maintain price lists and logic, and executing updates through standardized workflows. The role also acts as a regional liaison, provides bilingual support, and contributes to continuous improvement efforts by identifying issues and collaborating on solutions. | — | 0 |
| Risk & Compliance Professional This role is for a Risk & Compliance Professional within Caterpillar's Electrification + Energy Solutions (E+ES) division. The professional will be responsible for building and assessing the compliance control program, leading compliance training, implementing and monitoring processes, and supporting audits. The role requires knowledge of business process improvement, risk management, effective communication, and the audit and compliance function. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Scheduling & Orders Senior Manager, Scheduling & Orders role at Caterpillar, focusing on end-to-end scheduling and order management in complex manufacturing operations. Requires leadership in integrating demand, production schedules, materials planning, and order fulfillment, driving continuous improvement, and managing cross-functional teams. Emphasizes data-driven decision making and supply chain expertise. | — | 0 |
| Assistant General Counsel - Trademarks This role is for an Assistant General Counsel specializing in Trademarks at Caterpillar. The primary focus is on providing strategic leadership for the company's global trademark portfolio, including prosecution, enforcement, optimization, and risk management. The role involves advising senior leaders, managing a high-volume trademark portfolio, overseeing outside counsel and budgets, and supporting branding initiatives, including those related to technology and AI. The position requires deep expertise in trademark law, strong business acumen, leadership experience, and the ability to manage complex legal workflows in a global, dynamic environment. While the role supports AI-related branding initiatives and encourages the adoption of AI tools, it is not an AI/ML development or research role. | — | 0 |
| Business Analyst (Cost & Investment Analysis) Seeking a Business Analyst for the Brazil Analytics Center of Excellence within Global Finance Services. This role focuses on providing technical expertise and performing complex accounting work supporting business processes related to investment analysis and decision support. The position plays a critical role in evaluating investments, supporting New Product Introductions (NPIs), and ensuring disciplined capital and cost decision-making across the organization. | — | 0 |
| High School Student Trainee - Facilities Engineering This is a high school student trainee position in Facilities Engineering at Caterpillar. The role involves supporting the team with tasks such as assembling furniture, relocating items, basic administrative duties, and maintaining work areas. It requires organizational skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Supply Chain Project Manager This role is for a Strategic Supply Chain Project Manager at Caterpillar, focusing on process improvement initiatives within supply chain, logistics, demand planning, and order management. The role involves cross-functional collaboration to optimize integrated supply chain solutions, reduce costs, and enhance operational effectiveness. It requires strong problem-solving, project management, and collaboration skills, with preferred experience in SAP/MAMM, manufacturing, or lean principles. | — | 0 |
| High School Student Trainee - Manufacturing Engineering This is a high school student trainee position supporting the Manufacturing Engineering team at Caterpillar's Pontiac facility. The role involves learning about manufacturing processes, supporting factory floor improvements, performing time studies, and assisting with data collection and analysis. It is a part-time, temporary role for incoming high school juniors or seniors. | — | 0 |
| Control Systems Engineering Specialist Control Systems Engineering Specialist responsible for the design, integration, validation, and deployment of remote services on vehicles or machines, ensuring seamless integration of hardware, software, communications, and cloud-based services for features like remote monitoring, diagnostics, software updates, data analytics, and fleet management. Works cross-functionally with various engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Automation Designer/concepteur en automatization This role focuses on designing, developing, building, and implementing new products, components, or technologies for Caterpillar Fleet Products, including autonomy and automation systems. It involves research into materials and products, prototype testing, documentation of requirements, and technical troubleshooting. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Cat Digital This role focuses on business intelligence and data analysis within Caterpillar's digital division. The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for building solutions to track performance and lifecycle metrics, analyzing large datasets, and developing dashboards to provide insights to business partners. The role involves identifying requirements, preparing technical documentation, and collaborating with business partners to solve problems using data. | — | 0 |
| Iron Technician I This role involves the assembly and testing of mechanical components, including disassembly, cleaning, inspection, and preparation for various inspections. It also includes trainee roles in NDT and manifold rebuilds, computer system usage, inventory management, and tool maintenance. | — | 0 |
| Automation Designer/concepteur en automatization This role focuses on designing, developing, building, and implementing new products, components, or technologies for Caterpillar Fleet Products, including autonomy and automation systems. It involves research into materials and products, prototype testing, documentation of requirements, and technical troubleshooting. | — | 0 |
| Coordinador / Coordinadora de Instalaciones The role provides administrative and technical support for facility operations, ensuring the proper functioning and availability of production equipment, specifically CNC machines. Responsibilities include performing corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance, using diagnostic tools, tracking maintenance metrics, participating in continuous improvement activities, documenting interventions, and collaborating on root cause analysis for recurring failures. Requires a technical degree in Mechatronics, Electronics, or Electrical Mechanics, with strong skills in precision, problem-solving, and organization. Knowledge of CNC machinery maintenance, diagnostic tools like Ball Bar and laser interferometer, and troubleshooting specific CNC issues is required. | — | 0 |
| Material Control Technician This role is a Material Control Technician at Caterpillar, responsible for ensuring material requirements for assigned products are met within the established timeframe. It involves coordinating with production support, identifying and resolving material issues, managing bills of materials, preparing material lists, and verifying contractual requirements for material procurement and shipment to meet manufacturing needs. | — | 0 |
| Project Manager - Power Generation Project Manager for Caterpillar's Oil, Gas and Marine organization, leading the development and execution of large-scale natural gas power generation projects. Responsibilities include managing all commercial, contractual, and technical aspects from planning to commissioning. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer Quality Engineer role at Caterpillar focused on performing advanced inspections and audits to ensure conformance to quality standards, collaborating with manufacturing and engineering to prevent defects, reduce variation, and strengthen quality system execution. This is an on-site manufacturing quality role focused on disciplined quality execution and continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Mining Technology Implementation Specialist This role involves implementing and configuring Caterpillar's MineStar technology products, including Command for Hauling (autonomy), Fleet, Terrain, Health, and Reporting systems. The specialist will define site infrastructure, set up servers, install and configure software, perform upgrades, and support the deployment of onboard hardware and software. The position requires on-site visits, driving customer adoption, providing product feedback, and identifying job/application profiles. A Bachelor's degree in IT or Engineering, pre-advanced English, and experience in the mining industry are required. Previous Fleet Management System knowledge and programming language/hardware/software knowledge are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Lead Digital Project Manager Lead Digital Project Manager at Caterpillar Inc. to oversee planning, organization, and implementation of complex digital projects, focusing on enabling engineering delivery, driving transparency, and ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes. This role involves managing project teams, maintaining organizational discipline, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration within an agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Engineer Logistics Engineer at Caterpillar focused on implementing and improving logistics processes to maximize efficiency and productivity. Responsibilities include applying process improvement tools, coordinating with operations, maintaining process standards, and evaluating workflows through root cause analysis. | — | 0 |
| 2026校园招聘-嵌入式软件工程师 Embedded software engineer responsible for developing core information systems for connected and telematics products, including software coding, configuration, integration, building, and testing for displays or telematics systems. Also involved in validation and verification, requirements development, benchmarking, and troubleshooting software or system defects. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Specialist (Fabrication) Maintenance Specialist for Fabrication at Caterpillar Indonesia Batam, responsible for daily maintenance, installation, repair, and overhaul of machinery and related equipment, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards. Requires D3 in Mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering, 5+ years of fabrication experience, knowledge of electrical systems, PLC, pneumatics, hydraulics, and experience with cranes and rotators. | — | 0 |
| Order Support Manager Order Support Manager at Caterpillar, responsible for ensuring smooth and timely execution of customer orders from initiation through delivery. Acts as a communication link between Sales/Customers and Plant operations, managing order-related information, documentation, risks, and status updates. Supports operational planning through reporting, project coordination, and adherence to internal processes to achieve on-time delivery and revenue targets. | — | 0 |
| Associate Procurement Professional Associate Procurement Professional role at Caterpillar, supporting procurement managers with purchasing, logistics, and material-related matters. Responsibilities include long-term supplier planning, cost reduction initiatives, NPI process involvement, and data analysis for decision-making. Requires knowledge of supply chain, logistics, and purchasing, with preferred experience in fabrication and data analysis tools like Power BI. | — | 0 |
| 2026校园招聘-智能制造工程师 This role focuses on analyzing intelligent manufacturing needs within production workshops, planning and implementing intelligent digitalization strategies, identifying automation improvement opportunities, and driving the adoption of intelligent manufacturing projects. It involves equipment planning, simulation, optimization, and automation upgrades, as well as managing suppliers and handling equipment failures. The role requires a background in electrical or mechanical engineering automation, familiarity with design software and PLC programming, and a foundation in intelligent manufacturing technologies including vision systems and software programming. | — | 0 |
| Accountable Accountant Performs various routine accounting tasks in support of an operating unit, including budget analysis, master data maintenance, accounts receivable processing, journal entries, and supporting SOX compliance and audits. | — | 0 |
| Assembler III Assembles components and sub-assemblies in a manufacturing environment, following production schedules and quality standards. | — | 0 |
| Assembler III Assembler III role at Caterpillar, focusing on operations and contributing to building a better world through manufacturing. | — | 0 |
| Assembler III Assembler III role at Caterpillar, focusing on operations and contributing to building a better world through manufacturing. | — | 0 |
| Government Affairs Advisor This role involves managing communication and coordination with government authorities, supporting issue resolution with regulatory bodies, representing the company in government discussions, aligning with global government affairs teams, and monitoring relevant laws and regulations. The ideal candidate has a degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience in government affairs or compliance, with strong communication and compliance skills. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Process Technician V 工装夹具管理员 This role is for a Manufacturing Process Technician V (工装夹具管理员) at Caterpillar in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The primary responsibilities include managing, maintaining, and training on production fixtures and tooling, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring production targets for safety, quality, efficiency, and cost control are met. The role requires at least 3 years of experience in machining or tooling, with at least 1 year of team lead or site management experience preferred. Basic office software proficiency and some work English are also required. | — | 0 |
| Assembler Assembler role at Caterpillar focused on performing safe and defect-free assembly and adjustment of parts and components using documented procedures and lean manufacturing concepts. Requires basic work experience and ability to use industrial power tools and lifting devices. Top candidates will have experience in industrial assembly, manufacturing, and heavy equipment assembly. | — | 0 |
| Machinist Operates and sets up CNC equipment and tooling to machine components according to documented procedures, standard work, routings, and blueprints. Inspects work quality and makes program changes. Researches cutting tools for improvements. | — | 0 |
| Welder Operates robotic and manual MIG weld machines, performs quality checks, in-station repair, and follows standard procedures to create and machine components. Requires MIG welding experience, a trade certificate/diploma, or completion of a high school welding program. Top candidates will have manufacturing experience, robotic welding systems experience, and AWS D1.1 welder qualifications. | — | 0 |
| Experienced Welder Experienced Welder role at Caterpillar, focusing on operating robotic and manual MIG weld machines, performing quality checks, and in-station repair. Requires 3 years of GMAW (MIG) welding experience in a heavy fabrication manufacturing environment and the ability to pass AWS D1.1 welder qualifications. | — | 0 |
| Skillbridge - Machinist This role is for a Skillbridge program participant to become a Machinist Technician within Caterpillar's Large Power Systems Division. It involves rigorous on-the-job training in machining operations, including setting up and operating NC machines, interpreting job instructions, and troubleshooting. The program aims to equip individuals with critical manufacturing skills. | — | 0 |
| Vice President Manufacturing Operations Vice President of Operations for Caterpillar's Resource Industries segment, leading global manufacturing operations across eight facilities and approximately 6400 production employees. Responsible for end-to-end manufacturing operations, safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people development in a low-volume, high-mix environment. Focus on scaling advanced manufacturing capabilities, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Mechanic I - Hadady, LLC This role is for a Maintenance Mechanic at Caterpillar, responsible for performing preventive and reactive maintenance on facilities, equipment, systems, and machines within a plant. The job involves troubleshooting, completing work orders, and coordinating repairs. Requirements include a High School Diploma, experience in mechanical maintenance, and familiarity with hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems. | — | 0 |
| Welder - 3rd Shift- East Peoria LL- HIRING & RETENTION BONUS This role involves performing MIG and GMAW welding on steel components, operating robotic welding equipment, and performing carbon arc cutting and gouging in a production environment. It requires at least 1 year of production welding experience or a welding certification, with the ability to pass weld qualification testing. The position is for 3rd shift at Caterpillar's East Peoria manufacturing facility. | — | 0 |
| Senior Mechanic Lead Senior Mechanic Lead role at Caterpillar focused on supporting technical investigations, testing, and validation of current and future products and components. Responsibilities include installing measurement equipment, collecting data, assisting engineers in analysis, and troubleshooting issues with machines and test setups. Requires experience with instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and troubleshooting technical problems in lab or field settings. | — | 0 |
| Quality Specialist II 2nd Shift Quality Specialist II role focused on inspecting Motor Graders, Medium Wheel Loaders, DV machines, and components, with emphasis on fabrication, assembly, and paint processes. Requires applying engineering drawings and specifications to judge product conformance. Experience in quality inspection, manufacturing, and reading technical drawings is desirable. | — | 0 |
| Mining Onboard Specialist - MineStar This role provides on-site technical support and system optimization for Caterpillar's autonomous haulage systems (MineStar Command for hauling). The specialist will work with dealer and customer teams to ensure hardware and systems perform optimally, troubleshoot field issues, analyze fault data, and report on system status. The role involves significant travel to mine sites and collaboration with engineering and product support teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Embedded Software Designer/Concepteur Senior de Logiciels Embarqués This role is for a Senior Embedded Software Designer at Caterpillar, focusing on developing software for autonomous and automated mining machines. The responsibilities include designing, implementing, and testing embedded software applications using C++ and Python, working within an Agile environment. While the role mentions AI concepts and collaboration with AI teams, the core function is embedded software engineering for industrial applications, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Mining Application Specialist - MineStar This role supports and maintains Caterpillar's autonomous haul trucks by implementing and optimizing the MineStar Command system. Responsibilities include customer support, troubleshooting, installation, configuration, performance measurement, and creating training materials. The role requires experience in mining technology, field support, and analytical skills, with a preference for prior Cat MineStar experience and an engineering degree. | — | 0 |
| Factory Manager Factory Manager role at Caterpillar, focusing on leading manufacturing, heat treat, and assembly operations for large engine markets. The role emphasizes driving innovation, continuous improvement through Lean tools, and developing a high-performing team in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. Requires expertise in budgeting, quality management, analytical thinking, planning, performance management, manufacturing operations, safety, and standards. | — | 0 |