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.
Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, down 26% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $98k–$259k (avg $171k).
Caterpillar currently has 36 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Autonomy Development Engineer (2), Data Scientist (2), ALTERNANCE (Master) Développeur Solutions Digitales et IA pour les Processus Achats F/H (Réf 06-2026), Autonomy Engineer, Autonomy Validation Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Caterpillar's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (67%), data (19%), application (6%). 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 (25 roles), China (2 roles).
Job postings at Caterpillar most frequently mention: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Debugging, Process Mining, SQL.
In the past 30 days, Caterpillar has posted 83 new AI-related roles. That is a +46% change versus the prior 30 days (57 → 83).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| Senior Digital Product Owner - Cat Foresight Fleet Management Workflow Product Owner for Caterpillar's Cat Foresight Fleet Management Workflow, focusing on defining, redesigning, and driving the development of fleet manager workflows and experiences. This includes AI enablement and the development of a CAT AI Assistant for Fleet Managers. The role involves translating business requirements into technical specifications, managing the product backlog, and supporting user adoption. | — | 5 |
| Senior Digital Commerce Strategist & Architect This role is for a Senior Digital Commerce Strategist & Architect at Caterpillar. The primary focus is on shaping the digital commerce experience, including store entry, navigation, and equipment presentation, while building data foundations for future AI-driven experiences. The role involves defining strategy, designing data models and taxonomies, translating business goals into roadmaps, and supporting current AI execution by evaluating opportunities and structuring data for AI readiness. While not a core AI development role, it requires a working understanding of AI/ML concepts, prompting, RAG, and evaluating AI approaches to be a credible thought partner. |
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| Autonomy Engineering Specialist The Autonomy Engineering Specialist defines robotic needs, provides technical leadership on robotics software development, testing, and validation processes for Caterpillar's Safety Technology team, focusing on collision mitigation systems for Automation and Autonomy products. The role involves leading design, implementation, testing, and release of software for robotic devices, with a preference for experience in Robotics or Autonomous Vehicles. | Agent | 5 |
| Order Management IT Solution Lead This role partners with business and IT stakeholders to design and deliver technology solutions for Order Management, leveraging GenAI technologies to accelerate problem-solving and explore solution options. The lead will shape and recommend end-to-end solutions, lead design, testing, and implementation, and ensure solutions are scalable, integrated, secure, and compliant. Responsibilities include business analysis, process mapping, requirement definition, and translating business needs into technical solutions. | — | 5 |
| Autonomy Engineer This role focuses on the design, development, and testing of robotics software, including algorithms for robotic platforms, with a basic understanding of AI concepts and methodologies. The engineer will collaborate with senior engineers and participate in the full software development lifecycle for robotic systems. | Ship | 5 |
| Lead Product Owner - Cat Foresight Contract Business Outcomes Lead Product Owner for Cat Foresight Contract Business Outcomes, focusing on managing the development and support of digital product tool suites for lead generation and fleet/equipment management. The role involves defining strategy for measuring contract business outcomes, integrating AI/Analytics, and preparing engineering-ready features. Collaboration with various teams including product managers, engineering, and users is critical. | — | 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 best practices, and analyze data for proactive decision-making, with an emphasis on AI integration in quality. | — | 5 |
| Lead Digital Aftermarket Specialist This role focuses on managing and improving digital aftermarket solutions for wear and maintenance products at Caterpillar. The specialist will ensure data accuracy and accessibility, acting as a liaison between business and technical teams. They will use tools like Python, SQL, Power BI, and AI-assisted coding platforms to organize, maintain, and deliver data that helps customers and dealers make informed decisions. The role involves collaborating on digital solution development and continuous improvement initiatives. | — | 5 |
| Digital Business Product Owner Product Owner role at Caterpillar Digital focused on digital product development, leveraging AI capabilities. Responsibilities include backlog management, translating needs into user stories, collaborating with engineering and stakeholders, and gathering feedback. Requires business analysis, decision-making, and software product knowledge. High interest in generative AI is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering Lead Software Engineer for Data Engineering at Caterpillar, focusing on building a next-generation Digital Manufacturing Data Platform. The role involves leading a team, architecting scalable data solutions using Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, and cloud services (Azure/AWS), and enabling advanced analytics and AI capabilities. Requires expertise in Big Data, Data Warehousing, real-time data movement, and CI/CD. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack LLM Engineer – Data Scientist Full Stack LLM Engineer – Data Scientist role focused on developing and engineering end-to-end system features using Python, with a cloud-first and agile mindset, involving the full software development lifecycle. The role requires proficiency in Python and has a preference for experience with cloud and agile methodologies, front-end and back-end technologies, and databases. Machine Learning knowledge is listed as 'Working Knowledge'. | Ship | 5 |
| Manager Information Technology (Data & Integrations – Service Level Management) Manager Information Technology (Data & Integrations – Service Level Management) role accountable for end-to-end service performance, reliability, and continuous improvement across enterprise data platforms and integration services. Drives a next-generation Service Level Management (SLM) model, leveraging AI, automation, and predictive insights to ensure high availability, performance, and business-aligned outcomes for critical data and integration capabilities. Acts as a bridge between IT operations, data & integration engineering teams, vendors, and business stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| IT Analyst Applications (Matillion ETL/ELT Developer – Snowflake Data Engineering) Seeking a Matillion ETL/ELT Developer with Snowflake data engineering experience to build, optimize, and support scalable data pipelines. This role enables reliable data delivery for analytics, AI experiences, and business consumption, focusing on data warehouse operations and governed self-service analytics within the Cat Financial Insurance Services BI, Data, and AI team. | — | 5 |
| Cybersecurity Manager Cybersecurity Manager role focused on SIEM, detection, and security analytics. The role involves leading a team, shaping strategy for enterprise logging and analytics, and improving detection coverage and platform resilience. It emphasizes advancing analytics engineering, including AI/ML-assisted analytics, and managing the roadmap for SIEM, analytics, and log data platforms. The position also requires ensuring alignment with security policies and regulatory requirements, building and coaching a team, and managing vendor relationships. | — | 5 |
| Lead Product Owner, Cat Foresight Condition Monitoring Lead Product Owner for Caterpillar's Cat Foresight Condition Monitoring digital product, focusing on leveraging predictive analytics and Generative AI to improve user efficiency, asset uptime, and customer satisfaction. Responsibilities include defining Epics and Features, collaborating with data scientists and engineers, and managing product development timelines and budgets. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on transforming data into advanced analytical and predictive insights for decision-making within Finance. This role involves data exploration, statistical and machine learning modeling, data preparation, and translating analytical outputs into actionable insights. It supports automation and advanced analytics enablement, model monitoring, and business partnership, working closely with IT and Data Platforms. | Data | 5 |
| Strategy Manager, AI Accelerator This role is a Strategy Manager for an AI Accelerator team at Caterpillar. The primary focus is on enabling and scaling AI adoption across the enterprise through communications, change management, and program orchestration. The role involves defining the AI narrative, aligning stakeholders, developing toolkits, and fostering an AI-first culture to ensure AI value realization and strategic alignment. | — | 5 |
| Manufacturing Engineering Manager This role manages manufacturing engineering for automated systems, processes, and product engineering, focusing on improving manufacturing methods, equipment, and infrastructure. It drives innovation using robotics, AI, machine learning, and 3D vision systems for operations like welding, painting, and assembly, and plays a critical part in New Product Introduction (NPI) readiness and execution. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Digital Product Owner; Salesforce Sales Cloud This role is for a Senior Digital Product Owner for Salesforce Sales Cloud at Caterpillar. The primary focus is on understanding sales team needs and translating them into product roadmaps and user stories. While the role mentions AI capabilities, Agentforce, and Data Cloud, these are presented as components to be integrated into the existing Salesforce platform rather than the core focus of building AI models or systems. The role emphasizes product management, agile methodologies, and understanding the sales workflow. | — | 5 |
| Lead Product Owner Lead Product Owner for Cat Inspect, a digital tool for asset inspections, focusing on its transformation leveraging generative AI to enhance user experience and drive customer commitments and services growth within Caterpillar's digital and technology arm. | — | 5 |
| Direct Procurement IT Solution Lead This role partners with business and IT stakeholders to design and deliver technology solutions for direct procurement, leveraging GenAI technologies to accelerate problem solving and improve analysis. The lead will translate business needs into technical solutions, lead business analysis activities, and ensure solutions are scalable, integrated, secure, and compliant. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, IAM Platform (Ops, SRE & AI Enablement) Engineering Manager for IAM Platform focusing on Ops, SRE, and AI Enablement. The role involves managing the identity infrastructure, implementing SRE principles, driving automation, and integrating AI/ML for threat detection and access control. The team will explore and implement intelligent solutions for automated threat detection, risk-based access control, and streamlining governance processes. | Agent | 5 |
| Autonomy Validation Engineer The Autonomy Validation Engineer role at Caterpillar focuses on testing and validation of robotics software for autonomous machines. This involves writing and executing test plans, debugging issues, and collaborating with engineers to ensure client needs are met. The role requires a degree in engineering or computer science and involves hands-on testing of machines in the field. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer Senior Autonomy Engineer at Caterpillar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, focused on the design, development, and testing of robotics software and algorithms. The role involves applying AI concepts and methodologies to achieve business goals within the robotics domain, with a working knowledge of AI systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Caterpillar responsible for leading analytics initiatives, developing and validating predictive models using ML/AI, building analytics-ready datasets, creating dashboards, and operationalizing analytics solutions. The role involves partnering with various business units to deploy and adopt these solutions, ensuring data governance and using modern engineering practices. Experience with MLOps, LLMs/NLP, and driving business adoption is a plus. | Ship | 5 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role at Caterpillar focused on performing analytical tasks and initiatives on large datasets to support data-driven business decisions and enable the Packaging Analytics process. Responsibilities include data gathering, processing, exploring ML techniques like NLP and text analysis, defining analysis scope, reporting insights, and conducting research on data model optimization and algorithms. | Data | 5 |
| Sr. Engineering Specialist This role is for a Sr. Engineering Specialist in Caterpillar's BCP Advanced Tech Group, focusing on identifying, testing, and proof-of-concept for new technologies related to autonomy, operator assist systems, controls, and embedded software. The candidate will provide technical leadership in designing advanced control systems, integrating electrical and mechanical systems, and implementing software/algorithms for electro-mechanical systems. A key aspect is understanding AI's impact on embedded automation software, perception, and planning systems, and staying abreast of regulatory environments for mobile equipment automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Principal Architect, Digital Twin This role focuses on architecting and implementing high-fidelity digital twins for systems, machines, and job sites, translating business needs into scalable simulation architectures. It involves defining strategy, developing roadmaps, creating architecture deliverables, and determining supporting infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on NVIDIA Omniverse and integrating various simulation technologies, including machine learning-based simulations. | Agent | 5 |
| 2026校园招聘-智能制造工程师（机械 / 自动化 / 焊接皆可） This role focuses on smart manufacturing engineering within Caterpillar, involving process design, manufacturing feasibility assessment, product manufacturability analysis, tooling design, process optimization, and documentation. It also includes managing production data, on-site process management, problem-solving, and exploring AI applications in manufacturing for tasks like defect identification and process monitoring. The role requires Python for data processing and automation, basic PLC programming, and support for automation and robotics integration. Experience with MES, data acquisition systems, and a basic understanding of AI/ML concepts are preferred. | Data | 5 |
| 2026校园招聘-智能制造工程师（机械+软件方向） This role focuses on driving enterprise-wide digitalization projects, leveraging advanced data analytics and intelligent office automation. It involves developing predictive models, integrating data, and implementing AI-driven solutions for office workflows, including research into enterprise knowledge bases and generative AI for information retrieval and Q&A. The role also supports the deployment of Caterpillar's standard systems. | DataAgent | 5 |
| 2026校园招聘-智能制造工程师（软件） This role is for a Software Engineer focused on intelligent manufacturing at Caterpillar's Tianjin facility. The engineer will develop and implement extensions and integrations for production systems (ERP, MES), participate in IoT projects (data acquisition, integration), and assist with system design and documentation. A key aspect is exploring and applying machine learning, AI, or data analysis methods to manufacturing scenarios like quality analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. The role also involves supporting existing systems, project management assistance, and staying updated on new technologies in intelligent manufacturing and AI. | Data | 3 |
| Automation Lead - AI (C++ & Python) This role leads the design, development, and validation of a safety-critical software automation framework for heavy equipment, focusing on software-in-the-loop (SIL) validation. It involves defining automation strategy, integrating with CI/CD, mentoring engineers, and reporting metrics. While the role has a basic understanding and explores AI/ML applications within automation and perception systems, its core function is in the engineering and validation of automation frameworks for safety-critical systems, not in building or shipping AI models themselves. | — | 2 |
| Lead Business Intelligence Analyst Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at Caterpillar, focusing on data quality, development, and deployment of digital platforms. Responsibilities include programming, technical guidance, problem resolution, and driving application development for business features. Requires a Master's degree in a related field and experience in data processing, ML frameworks, Python, NoSQL, relational databases, integrating analytical models, statistical methods, AWS services, data warehousing, and BI tools. | — | 2 |
| 整机E&E系统测试实习生 Internship role focused on supporting HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) test lab operations, including EHS management and 5S maintenance. Responsibilities include assisting with HIL test bench setup, basic vehicle software testing, and data recording. The role also involves proposing test efficiency improvements using programming or AI tools and participating in small-scale improvement projects like scripting and data analysis. | — | 1 |
| Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for Caterpillar's BCP division, leading the Virtual Product Development (VPD) organization. The role focuses on transforming product development by leveraging advanced simulation tools and data insights for earlier design decisions, integrating customer field data, and managing teams responsible for Finite Element Analysis, Cost Analytics, and Checking & Releasing. The role also involves university recruiting and divisional leadership for structures. | — | 1 |
| Technology Business Partner (Manager IT Engagement) This role is for a Technology Business Partner (Manager IT Engagement) at Caterpillar, supporting the Construction Industries' Customer Solutions Growth Regions. The role involves partnering with business leaders to translate needs into IT solutions, co-creating business processes and technology solutions, and championing an automation-first and AI-enabled approach. The position requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills, with a focus on driving efficiency and continuous improvement through digital and intelligent capabilities. | — | 1 |
| Technology Business Partner (Manager IT Engagement) Technology Business Partner (Manager IT Engagement) at Caterpillar, focusing on partnering with business leaders to deliver technology solutions, championing an automation-first and AI-enabled approach, and managing enterprise application portfolios. The role emphasizes strategic business partnership, solution co-creation, and stakeholder communication within the Construction Industries division. | — | 1 |
| Manager - Technology Solutions Partner Manager role focused on partnering with business leaders to deliver technology solutions, with an emphasis on an automation-first and AI-enabled approach. The role involves strategic business partnership, solution co-creation, and end-to-end lifecycle accountability, aiming to drive efficiency and continuous improvement through digital and intelligent capabilities. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer on the Data Engineering team responsible for developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications. The role involves interpreting design requirements, building and deploying CICD pipelines, implementing source to target mapping, and performing unit and integration testing. While the company mentions AI capabilities and the role has 'Considerations For Top Candidates' that include GenAI developer tools and AI coding assistants, the core responsibilities are focused on traditional data engineering and software development, not directly shipping AI models or agents. | — | 1 |
| Senior Lifecycle Consultant – Medium Tractor Products This role focuses on integrating aftermarket and lifecycle requirements for Medium Tractor Products (MTP) within New Product Introduction (NPI) programs. The Senior Lifecycle Consultant will provide technical expertise and cross-functional leadership to ensure alignment between product development, parts readiness, serviceability, and lifecycle performance. The role operates at the intersection of engineering, product support, and supply chain, driving data-informed decisions to improve customer uptime, service outcomes, and long-term product value. While the role assesses and applies emerging technologies like AI and digital solutions, its core function is product support and lifecycle management within the industrial domain, not the direct development or deployment of AI models. | — | 1 |
| Principal IT Architect - Manufacturing and Quality This role is for a Principal IT Architect focused on Manufacturing and Quality at Caterpillar. The architect will shape the strategic direction of global manufacturing and quality systems, drive enterprise-wide digital manufacturing initiatives, and lead technology modernization strategies, enabling AI Driven operations and next-generation manufacturing innovation. Responsibilities include leading architecture strategy for smart factory and Industry 4.0 initiatives, guiding modernization of manufacturing systems, enabling scalable digital capabilities through Industrial IoT, automation, analytics, AI, Digital Twins, and connected platforms, and defining future-state architecture for modern Manufacturing platforms including AI first thinking. | — | 1 |
| Senior Manager Software Engineering Senior Manager Software Engineering to lead the Helios Platform Services India Team, focusing on building and scaling core platform capabilities for Caterpillar's digital ecosystem. The role involves people leadership, technical direction, and product strategy, driving delivery of enterprise-grade, reusable, secure, and scalable services. Responsibilities include leading multiple teams, defining platform strategy and roadmap, fostering a strong engineering culture, and ensuring operational excellence. The role requires extensive experience in software engineering leadership, cloud-native platforms, shared services, and a strong understanding of AI models for improving developer and business outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Business Intelligence Analyst Seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst to develop and support web-based analytics solutions, design data visualizations, and automate reporting for Caterpillar's Global Finance Division. The role involves partnering with global stakeholders, integrating with Power Platform, and developing solutions using Python, Power BI, and SQL. | — | 1 |
| Principal Software Engineer – MineStar Modernization & Innovation Seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead technical modernization and innovation of MineStar software systems. This role involves modernizing legacy Java systems, evaluating emerging technologies, and executing POCs to shape future product architecture. The engineer will mentor others, influence engineering practices, and drive adoption of modern development and AI-driven engineering practices. Key responsibilities include leading modernization initiatives, defining architecture patterns, driving experiments, and embedding AI/automation into engineering workflows. | — | 1 |
| Lead Product Service Engineer (DSN Service Project Lead) Lead Product Service Engineer at Caterpillar focused on improving Dealer Solutions Network (DSN) process efficiency by leveraging AI tools and data analytics. The role involves managing projects, driving change management with dealers, representing the DSN in global conferences, and defining requirements for system enhancements. While the role utilizes AI tools, it does not involve building or shipping AI models. | — | 1 |
| Engineering Checker - Drawing Quality This role is for an Engineering Checker responsible for reviewing design and drawings for completeness, accuracy, and conformance to engineering standards. The role involves collaborating with the engineering design team, ensuring proper documentation, and providing counsel on potential design issues. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and experience with CAD software like Creo, PDM tools like Teamcenter, and knowledge of manufacturing processes and GD&T. | — | 0 |
| Electrification Field Engineer Field Engineer supporting Electrification and Energy Solutions products (batteries, fuel cells, chargers, energy storage systems, electric drives) by diagnosing, repairing, and troubleshooting technical product issues to ensure customer satisfaction and product reliability. This role acts as a technical conduit between the field and the factory, conducting failure analysis, quality testing, and providing dealer training. | — | 0 |
| Procurement Professional(Contracting Specialist) This role is for a Procurement Professional (Contracting Specialist) at Caterpillar, focusing on managing the full contract lifecycle for non-commercial terms with suppliers, primarily in the NA region. The role involves drafting, negotiating, executing, and archiving legal procurement documents, ensuring compliance with legal and operational standards, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and suppliers. It requires extensive experience in contract negotiation and management, strong organizational skills, and fluency in English. The position is based in Bangalore and requires a 5-day-a-week in-office schedule. | — | 0 |
| Senior IT Analyst Applications (SAP Sales and Distribution - Functional Consultant) This role is for a Senior IT Analyst Applications (SAP Sales and Distribution - Functional Consultant) at Caterpillar, focusing on the Order to Cash (OTC) process within the SAP system. The individual will deliver SAP SD/OTC solutions, provide technical guidance, analyze business processes, design and configure pricing procedures, and oversee testing for machine orders and enterprise deployments. The role requires expertise in SAP SD module, pricing, and OTC processes, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving and system integration. | — | 0 |
| IT Analyst Applications This role focuses on developing low-code/no-code applications using Power Apps, automating business processes with Power Automate, and creating data insights with Power BI, SQL, and Snowflake within an enterprise IT environment. It involves data engineering and business intelligence tasks, not core AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |