Senior Autonomy Systems Engineering Specialist
Caterpillar21 hours ago
East Peoria, IL, USA or Irving, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$128k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Apply autonomous system solutions to construction machines including excavators, wheel loaders, and articulated trucks.
- Lead and contribute to the design, architecture, implementation, testing, and release of autonomy and robotics systems.
- Lead requirements generation and system architectural tradeoff decisions.
- Provide technical leadership across functional testing, verification, validation, and certification.
- Integrate technologies to improve autonomy solution capability and robustness.
- Troubleshoot complex software, hardware, and application issues across development and production environments.
- Facilitate design reviews and communicate technical concepts, risks, readiness, and tradeoffs to engineers, stakeholders, and leadership.
- Manage engineering projects across time, cost, quality, and risk.
- Mentor engineers and improve technical quality through guidance and example.
- Lead hands-on engineering in laboratory and machine-based proving-ground environments for development, validation, and demonstrations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or commensurate industry experience.
- Extensive experience as a systems integration or design engineer supporting robotics, autonomous, or semi-autonomous systems engineering projects.
- Strong robotics experience and understanding of planning, perception, positioning, and controls.
- Strong professional experience designing and architecting major or multiple products.
- Experience troubleshooting software, hardware, or application problems using code, logs, and current systems.
- Preferred experience with LIDAR, GNSS, GPS, radar, and camera sensors.
- Preferred experience with field testing, HIL, and proving-ground support.
- Preferred experience with site autonomy platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of wheel loaders, excavators, or articulated trucks.
- Preferred experience in the construction or mining industries.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, risks, and tradeoffs and influence decisions through technical expertise.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, health savings account, and flexible spending accounts.
- Health lifestyle programs, employee assistance program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, and adoption benefits.
- Relocation is available.
- The position requires full-time onsite work five days per week at a designated Caterpillar facility; remote work is not available.
- The preferred initial location is the Peoria, Illinois area, with future relocation to Irving, Texas based on business needs.
- Travel is approximately 15% for candidates based in the Peoria area and approximately 75% for candidates based in the Dallas area.
Tech Stack
Robot Framework
Categories
Robotics
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.