Senior Perception Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team dedicated to creating stronger, more sustainable communities. Cat Technology collaborates across the Caterpillar enterprise to advance technologies like autonomy and automation, enhancing site safety, productivity, and efficiency for customers worldwide. Cat Technology also drives enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation, and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar's leadership in technological excellence and engineering innovation. As the Senior Perception Engineer, you will be responsible for developing cutting-edge autonomous and operator-assisted driving systems. This involves designing, implementing, and testing algorithms for sensor fusion, object detection, tracking, and classification, and collaborating with other engineers and researchers to integrate solutions into the software stack and hardware platform. Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, Caterpillar has been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and is committed to a reduced-carbon future. Their innovative products and services, backed by a global dealer network, provide exceptional value to customers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent technical degree.
Artificial Intelligence/Autonomy: 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.
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.
Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools; ability to test, write, design, debug, troubleshoot and maintain source codes and computer programs.
Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for developing applications.
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.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of mobile robotics perception for autonomy or advanced operator assist systems, including a working knowledge of computer vision, machine learning and deep learning techniques and familiarity with lidar, radar and cameras as perception sensors.
Proven ability to work independently and within a team.
Previous experience with the Agile software development life cycle.
Previous experience with C++ and Python programming languages.
Eigen, Azure DevOps or Jira for project management and work item tracking.
Experience with standard software development tools (CMake, Git, SonarQube, Docker, GoogleTest, Artifactory, Clang) used in development of mobile robot perception systems.
Working knowledge of cloud compute and storage tools (AWS EC2, S3, and Batch).
Experience with ROS or Caterpillar’s Autonomous Infrastructure Software (AIS), OpenCV, Tensorflow/PyTorch, and code development tools.
Extensive experience participating in efforts to develop, integrate, or test complex autonomy systems that meet prioritized requirements and time frame constraints for autonomous systems that meet prioritized requirements and time frame constraints for autonomous machine programs focusing on machine safety and productivity.
Ability to solve complex issues spanning multiple subsystems.
Experience solving challenging perception problems in autonomy and operator assist systems.

Responsibilities

Solve challenging perception problems for mobile off-road machines.
Participate in design and development of high-quality perception software and algorithms to solve our customer needs.
Document architecture specifications, software design, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures, and safety procedures.
Work with application teams to collect and analyze data on customer experience with robotic and manned platforms.
Work with others to analyze and annotate date for ML training.
Participate in the iterative ML training cycles to meet perception requirements.
Use appropriate tools to debug, test and maintain perception software and assist in the verification and validation process.
Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time-to-time.