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).
Industrial · Autonomous mining trucks
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI / AI Ops Engineer – Platform Engineering This role focuses on building and deploying production-grade Agentic AI and AI Ops solutions to enable intelligent, automated, and reliable platform operations. It involves designing and implementing agentic AI systems for multi-step workflows, building AI-driven automation for operations, and integrating AI solutions with platform infrastructure. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Lead Architect – Digital Twin & AI Factory Lead Architect for Digital Twin & AI Factory responsible for designing and implementing architecture solutions for simulation, digital twins, AI model development, and AI Factory operations. This role translates architectural vision into detailed solution designs, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance to accelerate AI model development, training, fine-tuning, validation, and deployment. It supports orchestration of AI Factory and simulation capabilities across the development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration of compute resources, data pipelines, model workflows, and simulation environments for rapid experimentation and deployment. |
| DataPost-train |
| 8 |
| Lead Data Scientist - Gen AI & Digital Twin Lead Data Scientist role focused on developing and integrating digital twins and GenAI-assisted predictive analytics for condition monitoring of Caterpillar equipment. Involves algorithm development (anomaly detection, GANs), digital twin engineering (NVIDIA architecture), optimization for GPUs, edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson, and developing Generative AI agents for automated diagnostics and unified data orchestration. | AgentData | 8 |
| Principal AI Engineer Principal AI Engineer at Caterpillar, focusing on developing and scaling AI-based applications for the manufacturing domain. The role involves leading implementation strategies, designing knowledge transfer, driving innovation, and collaborating with product teams to integrate AI features into digital products. Requires experience in deploying production AI solutions, applying GenAI for industrial optimization, and mastery of ML algorithms. Nice-to-have skills include manufacturing data experience, digital twin solutions, and familiarity with industrial platforms. | Agent | 8 |
| Autonomy Development Engineer Develops production quality C++ software for advanced, semi-autonomous, and autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, integrating positioning, planning, perception, and controls. Collaborates on design, coding, and validation, with a focus on solving real-world problems and bringing prototypes to production. Requires strong C++ skills, experience with robotics/automation projects, and knowledge of planning, positioning, or perception. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer Senior Autonomy Engineer role focused on developing and productionizing semi-autonomous and autonomous solutions for heavy equipment. Responsibilities include C++ software development, integrating positioning, planning, perception, and controls, and working with robotics frameworks like ROS. The role emphasizes converting research into production-ready systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Data Architecture Senior Manager, Data Architecture leading the organization responsible for building the data foundation that enables Physical AI, autonomy, digital twins, and next-generation intelligent systems. Defines and delivers data architecture, domains, products, and AI-ready data capabilities to transform machine, sensor, telemetry, simulation, and operational data into trusted assets that accelerate AI development and autonomous system innovation. Accountable for how data is organized, managed, and delivered, ensuring engineers and data scientists can efficiently develop, train, fine-tune, validate, and deploy next-generation AI models while accelerating innovation through scalable and reusable data products. Establishes scalable data patterns supporting the full Physical AI lifecycle, including data collection, ingestion, processing, quality, governance, annotation, and availability for model training, fine-tuning, simulation, and deployment. Ensures high-quality data flows seamlessly from physical machines and environments into AI development ecosystems and back into continuously improving intelligent systems. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer – Physical AI, Autonomy & Data Platform Engineering Principal Software Engineer to lead technical strategy and engineering execution for large-scale data ingestion and processing platforms supporting physical AI and autonomous systems. This role involves designing scalable, cloud-native solutions for high-volume sensor and telematics data, partnering with architects and product owners to define reusable data platform capabilities for advanced analytics, machine learning, and autonomy initiatives. It's a hands-on technical leadership role operating at the frontier of physical AI and autonomy engineering, requiring adaptability in ambiguous and evolving technical domains. | Data | 7 |
| Autonomy Development Engineer Develops production quality C++ software for advanced, semi-autonomous, and autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, focusing on positioning, planning, perception, and controls. Collaborates on design, documentation, coding, quality, and validation. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Development Engineer Senior Autonomy Development Engineer role focused on developing and bringing to production semi-autonomous and autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, integrating positioning, planning, perception, and controls. Requires strong C++ development, problem-solving, and experience in robotics/autonomy. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Caterpillar to develop and scale a Manufacturing & Supply Digital Platform using AI and NVIDIA technologies. The role involves architecting ML and synthetic data pipelines, developing generative and optimization models for manufacturing processes, and deploying them on digital twins for closed-loop optimization. Requires expertise in ML, deep learning, optimization algorithms, and Python, with a focus on industrial analytics and data-driven decision making. | AgentData | 7 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on developing data-driven solutions for dealer inventory management and customer service outcomes. The role involves collecting, processing, and analyzing large datasets, applying ML, NLP, and text analytics, developing scalable data models, and collaborating with stakeholders to translate business problems into analytical solutions. It also includes generating insights using data visualization tools and researching improvements to models and algorithms, working with platforms like Python, SQL, Snowflake, and Azure. | Post-train | 7 |
| Site Manager – Autonomous Mining Technology This role is for a Site Manager focused on autonomous mining technology, specifically Command for Hauling operations. The manager will lead on-site autonomy roles, drive performance metrics, influence product groups, and act as a trusted advisor to the customer and internal stakeholders to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the Autonomous Haulage System (AHS). | Agent | 7 |
| Analyst Applications – ServiceNow Conversational & GenAI This role leads the design, development, and continuous improvement of conversational AI solutions within ServiceNow, focusing on Virtual Agent and generative AI capabilities like Now Assist. The primary focus is on building agentic, intent-driven experiences, integrating LLM-powered skills, and operationalizing AI features for customer service and IT support. The role involves end-to-end delivery, technical leadership, backlog prioritization, and ensuring quality execution, including responsible AI practices and evaluation. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Back Office Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for Caterpillar's autonomous mining systems back-office platform. Responsibilities include leading a team in the development and architectural design of the platform, covering areas like autonomous driving operations statistics and management, dispatch systems and algorithm development, map creation and management, digital twins, data analysis and efficiency optimization, user interface, network integration, server architecture, data storage and algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and remote control switching. The role requires strong experience in back-office system development, team management, and technical skills in distributed systems, algorithms, and ML frameworks. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Internal Enterprise Analytics & AI Experience Gateway Senior Manager role focused on defining and owning the enterprise architecture and platform for an Internal Enterprise Analytics and AI web application gateway solution within Global Finance. The role involves leading a platform team, defining architecture strategy, technical design standards, and roadmap development, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure AI-powered solutions. Key responsibilities include designing technical infrastructure, building onboarding frameworks, enabling a reusable AI semantic layer, improving CI/CD and operability, and modernizing insight delivery from traditional BI to AI-first experiences. Requires strong experience in Azure cloud architecture, application design, and modern AI solution patterns like LLMs, RAG, and orchestration. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Manager Software Engineering Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead a team developing simulation platforms and digital twins for robotics and automation, with a focus on NVIDIA Omniverse and neural network-based simulations. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Data Architect The Principal Digital Architect for Data is responsible for defining the data architecture that enables Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn, reason, and operate at scale. This role establishes the data domains, canonical data models, data products, and architectural standards that transform vast amounts of jobsite, machine, sensor, telemetry, simulation, and operational data into trusted, reusable assets for AI development and autonomy. The architect provides technical leadership for how data is organized, managed, and delivered across the enterprise, ensuring engineers and data scientists can efficiently develop, train, fine-tune, validate, and deploy next-generation AI models. | Data | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineering Development Specialist Engineering specialist role focused on developing, implementing, and testing algorithms for autonomous and operator-assisted driving systems for mobile off-road machines. Requires experience in mobile robotics, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and embodied AI, with strong C++ and Python programming skills. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager - Connectivity Data Analytics Senior Manager role focused on driving data- and AI-enabled engineering transformation within Caterpillar's Connectivity organization. The role leads the strategy, delivery, and adoption of analytics, automation, and AI solutions to improve connectivity quality, engineering efficiency, system reliability, and customer outcomes. It involves people leadership, technical judgment, and enterprise change leadership, translating connectivity data into insights and scalable AI capabilities. Key responsibilities include defining strategy, leading development of data products, applying AI/ML and GenAI to engineering workflows (validation, fault detection, predictive insights, AI-assisted diagnostics), managing a portfolio of initiatives, and fostering stakeholder partnerships and change management. The role also involves building and leading a high-performing team. | AgentData | 7 |
| Manager - Engineering Transformation Manager leading a team to embed AI into engineering development, validation, and quality processes, delivering scalable, compliant, and high-impact AI-enabled solutions for productivity, quality, and cycle time improvements. Focuses on AI-assisted code generation, defect detection, SDLC optimization, and analytics automation, driving adoption and integrating AI into core engineering processes. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Principal Digital Architect (Autonomy) Principal Digital Architect for the Autonomy Program, leading the design of end-to-end technical solutions for autonomous equipment and systems, bridging digital and physical worlds. Architecting scalable, secure, and resilient platforms integrating edge, embedded, and cloud technologies, working with sensor data (images, LiDAR) for perception, decision-making, and control. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Development Engineer - SOTIF Senior SOTIF Engineer for AI-enabled and autonomous systems, focusing on safety, risk mitigation, and evidence generation across the product lifecycle. Requires expertise in complex systems, autonomy, AI/ML, and safety standards. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Statistician – AI Product Assurance The Senior Statistician – AI Product Assurance role focuses on providing statistical evidence for the safety of AI-enabled products, particularly complex and agentic systems. This involves developing validation plans, defining safety metrics, analyzing data using advanced statistical techniques, and integrating statistical evidence into safety cases. The role also involves mentoring and supporting post-deployment monitoring. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Analytics Manager - AI Model & Prompt Engineering Senior Analytics Manager role focused on leading a team to build advanced generative AI solutions, including intelligent agents and digital assistants, for enterprise-scale products. The role involves technical leadership, resource management, and ensuring the quality and robustness of AI-driven experiences for customers and dealers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Software Test Engineering Senior Manager for Test Engineering leading a team responsible for system testing of Caterpillar's autonomy programs, defining AI testing strategy, architecting AI test solutions, and establishing AI quality governance. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer Senior Autonomy Engineer role focused on developing and productionizing localization algorithms for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, utilizing perception, inertial, and GNSS inputs. Requires strong C++ and Python skills, experience with filtering solutions (Kalman, Extended Kalman), and knowledge of robotics frameworks like ROS. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Specialist This role focuses on building and deploying predictive analytics and machine learning models, as well as AI-enabled tools and AI-driven solutions, to improve supplier quality and reduce warranty exposure. It involves data analysis, visualization, ETL processes, and supporting cloud-based environments, with a strong emphasis on translating business problems into scalable analytics solutions. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Agentic AI / AI Ops Engineer – Platform Engineering This role focuses on building production-grade Agentic AI and AI Ops solutions, including autonomous workflows and LLM-based applications, to improve platform operations and developer experience. It involves designing, implementing, and deploying these systems, integrating them with cloud-native infrastructure, and managing the AI lifecycle. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Data Scientist Lead Data Scientist at Caterpillar Digital in Slovakia, focusing on developing condition monitoring models using machine learning and time-series sensor data to predict equipment failures and estimate remaining useful life. The role involves leading a team, exploring and implementing ML/AI/GenAI projects, and collaborating with management and leadership. | Data | 7 |
| Principal Digital Architect Principal Digital Architect at Caterpillar, focusing on enterprise-level architectural leadership for designing and scaling AI-native solutions. The role involves defining architectures for GenAI, ML, and hybrid systems, designing technical infrastructure, leading technology evaluations, and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards. Requires hands-on experience with large-scale AI solutions, GenAI, ML systems, RAG, agentic architectures, data architecture, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, and observability. | Agent | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineering Specialist This role focuses on implementing machine learning algorithms on industrial machines for autonomous control systems. It involves creating ML algorithms, integrating ML software on hardware, leading early testing, and supporting AI assistant development. The role also acts as an AI expert for the division and coaches the team on AI solutions. | ServeData | 7 |
| Electronic Components Project Lead Manages projects for edge AI compute ECUs in machine and autonomy systems, focusing on design, development, and testing of electronic components. Acts as a platform lead for end-to-end delivery solutions. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Validation Engineer Develops, tests, and troubleshoots autonomy software systems for autonomous machines, focusing on onboard system validation, planning, perception, and positioning technologies. Involves data analysis, systems analysis, and continuous learning of industry trends. | Ship | 7 |
| Embedded Software Senior Engineering Specialist - AI Develops, designs, implements, deploys and tests AI centered solutions for embedded devices and systems development workflows, focusing on LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows within an industrial engineering context. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer, Gen AI Lead Software Engineer focused on Generative AI projects, building assistants, AI-infused processing pipelines, and tooling using Python, AWS, and frameworks like LangChain. The role involves developing and deploying Gen AI solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with data scientists on productionizing analytics solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| Autonomy Component Engineer This role is the system perception interface owner for Radar and Camera in autonomous driving systems, responsible for interface definition, quality standards, and engineering deployment. The position owns perception input quality and serves as the core interface across sensors, perception algorithms, and system architecture, with clear responsibility boundaries and issue ownership. | Agent | 7 |
| Autonomy Application Architect The Autonomy Application Architect at Caterpillar is responsible for the overall vehicle-level solution for autonomous machines. This role involves leading a team of autonomy engineers and collaborating with specialists to design, implement, and deliver autonomous systems for real-world applications. The architect will identify and evaluate state-of-the-art technologies, break down solutions into actionable tasks, perform risk/benefit analysis, and manage phased delivery plans from simulation to production release. They will also triage and resolve system-level issues. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on leading the design and delivery of advanced analytics, machine learning, and data quality solutions for enterprise-wide data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. The role involves end-to-end ML solution ownership, from problem framing to production deployment, with a focus on customer/entity resolution and NLP applications. | Agent | 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. Responsibilities include architecting solutions, defining standards for model delivery and deployment, and ensuring ISO 9001 compliance and alignment with AI governance. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineering Specialist Develop and productionize advanced, semi-autonomous, and autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, focusing on positioning, planning, perception, and controls. This role involves leading the full software development lifecycle, from design to validation, and mentoring team members. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Data Scientist Lead Data Scientist for Caterpillar's Cybersecurity GRC team, focusing on Advanced Analytics and GenAI initiatives. Responsibilities include data discovery, preparation, and processing for ML/AI models, exploring semantic data capabilities, defining data analysis scope, researching data model optimization, planning technical deliverables, communicating insights, and developing/validating/training/implementing statistical and digital solutions. Requires extensive experience in business statistics, machine learning/AI, Python programming, database management, data analysis (SQL, ETL/ELT), and requirements analysis. | Post-train | 7 |
| Director Software Engineering Director of Software Engineering leading teams in India focused on data platforms, data engineering, analytics, and AI/GenAI initiatives for Cat Digital. The role involves building and scaling cloud-native applications, data pipelines, model lifecycle management, and GenAI capabilities like RAG, vector databases, and agentic workflows, with a focus on translating data into scalable business capabilities. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy System Designer / Concepteur principal de systèmes d’autonomie Senior Autonomy System Designer responsible for the strategy, architecture, and execution of advanced robotic and autonomous systems at Caterpillar. This role involves translating business needs into scalable robotics solutions, leading cross-functional teams, and integrating emerging technologies like AI/ML. The focus is on designing, developing, and deploying these systems, ensuring their reliability, scalability, and performance in real-world environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineering Intern This internship focuses on applying machine learning algorithms to analyze and mine data for industrial equipment. The intern will perform data cleaning, build and optimize ML models for failure analysis and remaining service life prediction, and develop algorithms using C++ or Python to provide interfaces for system platforms. The role involves creating visual reports and improving prediction accuracy. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| 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 |