Senior Autonomy Engineer

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you'rejoining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don'tjust talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

• Role Definition
• Assists in the design, definition, development, and test of the robotics software development; collaborates with senior engineers to ensure that internal and external clients' needs are met.
• Responsibilities
• Collecting and researching data on customer experience with robotic platforms; preparing reports for management.
• Documenting architecture specifications, software design description, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures, and safety procedures.
• Utilizing appropriate tools to debug, test and maintain software and hardware systems of robotic tools; assisting in the verification and validation process.
• Participating in design and development of application software and algorithms for robotic platforms.
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
• Degree Requirement
• Degree required
• Skill Descriptors
• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Educates others on own organization in terms of the industry - its market position, niche (if any), etc..
• Compares and contrasts the latest developments and emerging issues in the industry.
• Raises coworkers' awareness of industry standards, practices and guidelines.
• Assesses how regulatory and reporting requirements apply to own organization.
• Explains the development of industry segments - trends, consequences, key issues.
• Discusses industry-specific cycles and associated considerations.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
• Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Explains how to use multiple, vendor-provided or in-house structured methodologies.
• Describes tasks, tools and practices for converting software product requirements into a design.
• Demonstrates experience with all phases and deliverables of the product development methodology.
• Implements the generic functions, features and facilities of modern structured methods.
• Explores and evaluates major structured methodologies available in the marketplace.
• Consults on effective application of structured product development methodologies.
• Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Has experience with planning and executing full spectrum of tests for multiple products.
• Provides input to design team to ensure testing considerations are incorporated into system design.
• Creates test scenarios that ensure all error handling processes perform as expected.
• Defines, creates, and executes test plans and cases; estimates time, effort and resources required.
• Explains approaches and tools for functional, reliability, and vulnerability testing.
• Discusses applications of iterative testing using agile methodologies.
• Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for developing applications.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates toolkits used to support major production systems.
• Resolves issues regarding functions, features and components of multiple toolkits.
• Provides implementation support on toolkit enhancements or changes.
• Interprets benefits and drawbacks of procedural and event-driven toolkits.
• Oversees the evaluation and recommendation of delivery tools and platforms.
• Coaches others on appropriate uses of all major tools in a toolkit for a specific platform.
• Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI); ability to develop, implement and/or apply artificial intelligence products and services in specific industry domain to achieve business goals.
• Level Working Knowledge:
• Performs basic tasks within a specific artificial intelligence area, such as self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, playing games, financial fraud detection, etc.
• Assists in business requirements analysis in the AI solution design or deployment process.
• Maintains and/or updates AI systems and equipment on a regular basis.
• Deploys, develops or operates specific AI products, equipment, systems and/or platforms to achieve certain business goals.
• Tests and troubleshoots the functionality of AI applications and systems within a specific area.
• Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools; ability to test, write, design, debug, troubleshoot and maintain source codes and computer programs.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors the quality of development activities.
• Assesses the impact of new productivity improvement tools on one's own area of responsibility.
• Compares and contrasts similarities and differences between multiple programming languages.
• Oversees major developmental efforts adhering to application systems design.
• Evaluates characteristics and advantages of different programming techniques.
• Coaches juniors on multiple programming languages.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Emphasizes the business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution so that problems can be avoided in the future.
• Creates trouble reports for all issues found and reviews solutions for completeness and correctness.
• Directs the resolution of communications problems in multi-vendor environments.
• Resolves a variety of hardware, software, and communications malfunctions.
• Coaches others on advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
• Facilitates the distribution of releases reports and correction packages to departments or clients.

Posting Dates:

May 20, 2026 - May 21, 2026

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