Sr. Data Engineer, AI Data Engineering

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

2d•$112,710 - $183,140

About The Position

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. Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. Job Summary: As a Senior Data Engineer on the Helios Data Engineering team, you will be responsible for developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications.

Requirements

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Effective Communications: 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.
Software Development: Extensive knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
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.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
Software Product Testing: Extensive 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.
Extensive software development experience and solid working knowledge of OOP principles.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and experience with Embedding Models and Concepts for effectively chunking data
Extensive experience working with Git version control
Exceptional communication skills with experience working on a cross functional teams.
Extensive experience deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Azure Devops etc.
Extensive experience in designing and developing software applications in Python.
Experience with AWS components such as Bedrock, Lambda, Dynamo, Fargate, S3, Sagemaker, IAM and RDS
Experience with relational and/or noSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Oracle, etc.
Knowledge and experience with AI technologies such as NLP, LLM, RAG, LangChain frameworks, etc
Experience working with NVIDIA Jetson or Orin hardware platforms, particularly in the context of AI model deployment
Hands-on experience with NVIDIA NeMo or NVIDIA NIM (Inference Microservices) for hosting embedding models
Demonstrated strong learning ability and a proactive approach to staying current with the latest technologies and industry trends.

Responsibilities

Interpreting design requirements for engineering implementation
Building and deploying CICD pipelines
Implementing source to target mapping as pipeline code
Responsibility for Unit and Integration testing
Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
Identifies and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.