Autonomy Engineer

Caterpillar•Pittsburgh, PA

38d•Onsite

About The Position

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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't just 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. Technology is a competitive differentiator. We collaborate with partners across the enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Our focus isn't just on what we build, but how we build it. We scale technology solutions across the business. We spearhead product development tools and processes. We collaborate with our partners to provide a seamless experience for our customers. We are obsessed with speed, simplicity and customer outcomes. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation. Job Summary: As an Autonomy Engineer, your responsibilities in software development will be focused on positioning and localization, you'll collaborate with team members to prototype and bring to production algorithms that enable autonomous & semiautonomous systems to localize robustly within the world around them. This includes estimating position and altitude absolutely but also relatively to terrain features and static or mobile equipment, and implementing filters using perception-based, inertial, and GNSS inputs. Every day you will work with your team to solve real world problems by selecting the right approach, developing quick prototypes & bringing them to production. The localization developer will participate in various aspects of the development process including design, documentation, coding, product quality, and validation. The individual should be a self-starter, highly motivated, able to learn at an accelerated pace, and willing to put in the time to get the job done. To excel in this role, you must be able to write and test high quality production code and enjoy solving challenging problems.

Requirements

Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Identifies common issues, problems, and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.
Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.
Excellency in C++
Fluency in Python
Interprets application system designs and program specifications.
Strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
Applies structured programming techniques to structured environments.
Discovers, analyzes, and resolves software or application problems.
Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.

Nice To Haves

Experience with localization including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) type approaches, utilization of graph-optimization libraries, and overall state estimation
Knowledge of robotics and frameworks such as Robot Operating System (ROS)
Strong foundation in mathematics and fundamentals (3D geometry, linear algebra).

Responsibilities

Research and design of localization algorithms and software
Develop production quality C++ software including design, documentation, coding, product quality, and validation
Support requirements generation and architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the localization architecture
Support functional safety software design and validation process
Collaborate with localization team members to execute on goals