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 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 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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| AMEP (Advanced Manufacturing Education Program) - Early Career Early career program for manufacturing roles at Caterpillar, involving on-the-job training and coursework at Ivy Tech to build diesel and natural gas engines. | — | 0 |
| Career Pathways: GLCA Highschool Program This is a high school internship program focused on manufacturing roles such as assembly and machining at Caterpillar. It provides technical and non-technical skills training for students to prepare for a career in manufacturing trades. | — | 0 |
| Senior Digital Project Manager Senior Digital Project Manager at Caterpillar, responsible for leading multiple technical teams using the Scrum framework, facilitating Agile practices, managing projects across cross-functional teams, and coordinating releases and deployments within Salesforce environments. The role involves assisting product owners, mediating conflicts, and ensuring quality in software deliveries. | — |
| 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role at Caterpillar, focusing on general software development, project management, and application development. The role involves complex problem-solving, independent work on system components, and driving business value through features. Responsibilities include communicating with end-users, debugging, testing, and performing integrated and customer acceptance testing. Requires a master's degree and experience in CRM design/development, large-scale CRM deployment, datastores (Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle), relational/NoSQL databases, architectural patterns (MVC, Microservices, Event-driven), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Azure DevOps), and Agile frameworks (Scrum). | — | 0 |
| Mining Application Specialist - MineStar | — | — |
| Industrial Electrician - 2nd / 3rd Shift (Decatur, IL) | — | — |
| Packaging Engineer | — | — |