Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Connectivity
Caterpillar2 days ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research and rapidly prototype emerging LLMs, agent frameworks, protocols, and locally deployable models.
- Design and build secure, maintainable, production-grade AI agents and services in Python.
- Develop reusable components for agent orchestration, context engineering, RAG, memory, tool use, MCP integration, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Integrate AI with connected assets, telematics, embedded systems, device lifecycle management, remote services, enterprise APIs, documentation, and connectivity data.
- Create evaluation datasets, acceptance criteria, automated tests, tracing, and observability for agent behavior, retrieval quality, latency, and reliability.
- Establish reference architectures and engineering practices for agentic AI across the Connectivity organization.
- Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, AI governance, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, auditable, and responsible AI.
- Measure improvements in engineering productivity, troubleshooting, service responsiveness, quality, time, and cost.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing agentic AI systems using LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Python, software or AI solution delivery from prototype through production deployment and support.
- Experience evaluating, optimizing, and deploying open-weight or locally hosted LLMs, including model selection, inference optimization, security, observability, latency, and lifecycle management.
- Experience architecting and operating AI workloads on Azure, AWS, or GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Experience designing LLM evaluation and observability systems, including retrieval and response quality evaluation, automated testing, tracing, latency measurement, hallucination detection, and reliability monitoring.
- Experience integrating AI agents with enterprise APIs, data sources, authentication and authorization systems, and production services.
- Experience with IoT, telematics, embedded systems, connected equipment, or industrial digital platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud deployment, software testing, source control, and production monitoring.
- Experience with MQTT, HTTPS, cellular, satellite, and device-to-cloud communication.
- Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions and communicate results to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to plan eligibility.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans and Health Savings Account access.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and health lifestyle programs.
- Employee Assistance Program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, tuition reimbursement, and incentive bonus eligibility.
- Disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, and adoption benefits.
- Full-time onsite work five days per week at the Irving, Texas office.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- The position requires up to 10% travel.
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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.