Autonomy Engineering Specialist

Caterpillar•Irving, TX

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Autonomy Engineering Specialist leads the end-to-end design, integration, validation, and deployment of Edge AI solutions across Caterpillar’s machine portfolio. The role ensures that solutions integrate seamlessly with each machine platform and collaborates across L6 Machine and Autonomy Systems, electrical, hardware, software, and cybersecurity teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions throughout the product lifecycle. The position leads product-group adoption of Edge AI solutions, develops system requirements and integration strategies, and supports system-level testing, validation, and verification across lab, bench, and field environments. It also provides people and technical leadership in system integration and software development to advance Caterpillar’s enterprise machine and edge AI compute feature strategy. The role is onsite five days per week in Irving, Texas, with 10% travel. Relocation assistance may be available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for different audiences.
Knowledge of problem-solving approaches, tools, and techniques, and ability to apply them appropriately to diverse situations.
Knowledge of embedded systems and their applications, with the ability to develop embedded systems of varying complexity to control machine operations.
Knowledge of requirements-analysis tools, methods, and techniques, with the ability to elicit, analyze, and record functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Position requires onsite work five days per week in Irving, Texas.
Travel requirement of 10%.

Nice To Haves

Ability to approach communication challenges from different angles based on the audience.
Experience and knowledge of embedded systems and multi-system integration.
Involvement with NPI deployment in machine programs.
Ability to resolve critical or wide-impact problems using standard problem-solving practices, tools, and processes.
Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

Lead product-group adoption of Edge AI solutions and ensure standardized physical and software interfaces align with product-group software releases.
Develop system requirements, interface definitions, and functional specifications for integration between edge systems and Machine Software.
Translate customer, regulatory, and business requirements into technical system solutions.
Define integration strategies and support product-group alignment and adoption.
Drive improvements that help system teams deploy and manage edge AI-based features effectively.
Plan and track system-level testing, validation, and verification of integrated Machine and edge AI features.
Support vehicle- and machine-level integration testing across lab, bench, and field environments.
Improve machine and edge AI feature integration using field data and customer feedback.
Provide people and technical leadership in system integration and software development to advance the enterprise machine and edge AI compute feature strategy.
Communicate program status and development timing to stakeholders and product teams.