Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native AI agents and tools. In this role, you will provide technical and organizational leadership for a team developing enterprise-scale AI Assistant that transform how Caterpillar customers, dealers, and employees interact with digital products.
You will oversee the end-to-end delivery of AI-powered applications and services, including agentic based architecture, agent orchestration framework and tools services, and observability solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with hands-on technical expertise in modern software engineering and Generative AI technologies.
What You Will Do
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of software engineers responsible for AI agent and AI tooling development.
- Drive technical strategy, architecture, and execution for cloud-native AI solutions.
- Oversee the design, development, deployment, and operation of AI agents, agent orchestration, and supporting services.
- Partner with product owners, architects, data scientists, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to define and deliver AI-enabled capabilities.
- Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, testing frameworks, security controls, and operational excellence processes.
- Own service reliability, scalability, performance, and production support for AI applications and platforms.
- Lead release planning, resource allocation, project execution, and risk management across multiple initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering productivity, software quality, observability, and automation.
- Develop team capabilities through coaching, mentoring, career development, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, collaboration, and accountability.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and responsible AI requirements.
What You Will Have
- Organizational Leadership: Proven ability to lead software engineering teams and deliver results through others. Experience building highly engaged teams and developing engineering talent.
- Software Development: Deep understanding of modern software engineering principles, design patterns, and development practices. Experience leading the delivery of distributed cloud-native applications.
- Software Architecture: Experience designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable software platforms. Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and guide technical decisions.
- Software Quality & Operations: Experience establishing testing strategies, observability standards, monitoring practices, and incident management processes. Knowledge of reliability engineering, security best practices, and operational excellence.
Considerations For Top Candidates:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams.
- Experience building AI assistants, digital copilots, autonomous agents, or AI-powered business applications.
- Experience with AI evaluation, model observability, prompt management, and experimentation frameworks.
- Experience working with cloud AI services and leading foundation models such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Gemini, or open-source alternatives
- Understanding of LLMs, RAG architecture, tool-calling patterns, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, or similar technologies.
- Experience building and operating applications on major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and platform operations.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar programming languages.
- Strong knowledge of Agile development
- Experience working in Azure DevOps
Summary Pay Range:
$147,760.00 - $240,110.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
401(k) savings plans*
Health Savings Account (HSA)*
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
Health Lifestyle Programs*
Employee Assistance Program*
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
Career Development*
Incentive bonus*
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Adoption benefits
Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
September 1, 2026 - September 20, 2026
