Senior Autonomy Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Irving, TX

3d•$128,470 - $208,770•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Autonomy Engineer defines and delivers resilient connectivity solutions that keep connected, autonomous, and uncrewed machines operating reliably in demanding field environments. This role provides technical leadership across wireless networking, edge computing, cloud connectivity, telemetry, and data pipelines. You will guide architecture, implementation, validation, and operational support while shaping engineering standards and long-term platform decisions.

Requirements

Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Strong technical leadership, including architecture reviews, design guidance, documentation, mentoring, and collaboration across engineering and stakeholder teams.
Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. Ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-stack networking issues and present recommendations supported by technical evidence and operational data.
Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges. Experience designing scalable telemetry, event-streaming, real-time, batch, and cloud-native solutions for large volumes of machine and sensor data.
Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. Ability to communicate complex connectivity and platform concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design. Demonstrated expertise in connectivity and distributed-system architecture, including cellular, satellite communications, edge computing, industrial networking, and edge-to-cloud data flows.
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.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related field, plus 5 or more years of relevant experience in software, connectivity, networking, cloud engineering, or distributed systems.
Hands-on experience with connected or autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aerial, maritime, or ground systems, remote operations, or comparable safety-relevant platforms.
Experience with wireless bonding, multi-WAN link aggregation, redundant-path design, Starlink or other satellite communications, and LTE, LTE-M, NB-IoT, private LTE, or 5G technologies.
Experience moving high-bandwidth camera, LIDAR, radar, or other sensor data from vehicle or edge environments to cloud platforms at scale.
Preferred experience with industrial Internet of Things environments, device management, telemetry platforms, data pipelines, or autonomy technologies such as perception, sensor fusion, and path planning.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support of connectivity solutions across machine, site, edge, and cloud environments.
Design resilient communication and telemetry platforms for remote and autonomous operations, including cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, multi-link failover, and high-throughput sensor data transfer.
Translate product and business needs into scalable technical solutions, evaluating tradeoffs across reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
Lead complex technical investigations, architecture reviews, and root-cause analysis across networking, connectivity, and data pipelines.
Establish reusable engineering patterns, mentor engineers, and identify emerging technologies that improve platform capability and customer value.