AI Automation Engineer, Data Annotation Services
Caterpillar2 days ago
Irving, TX, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$98k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy automated labeling and captioning solutions for perception and Vision-Language-Action datasets.
- Train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models for auto-labeling, auto-captioning, and annotation quality automation.
- Build data pipelines supporting automated labeling, human review, quality validation, and dataset publication.
- Extend NVIDIA Cosmos Curator, Cosmos Reason, and other AI automation technologies.
- Integrate Caterpillar data systems with external annotation providers and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence across annotation automation services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience developing production-grade software with Python, modern software engineering practices, and containerization platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data-processing pipelines.
- Experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying machine-learning models.
- Experience generating and managing camera and LiDAR datasets, including collection-pipeline design and ground-truth generation.
- Experience with data annotation and quality assurance for autonomous systems or computer-vision projects, including defining guidelines and identifying labeling defects.
- Experience with annotation and dataset-management tools such as Labelbox, Supervisely, or Roboflow.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, Weights & Biases, MLflow, or similar tools.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with computer vision, robotics, autonomy, Physical AI, multimodal AI, foundation models, VLA datasets, cloud platforms, MLOps, machine-learning deployment pipelines, and human-in-the-loop quality automation.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits; paid time off; 401(k) savings plans; HSA and FSA options; health lifestyle programs; employee assistance; voluntary benefits and discounts; disability and life insurance; parental and adoption benefits; tuition reimbursement; incentive bonus; and career development.
- Full-time onsite work five days per week at the Irving, Texas office.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering
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.