Caterpillar, Inc

Senior Analytics Manager - AI Model & Prompt Engineering

Caterpillar, Inc$172K — $258K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering leadership experience in AI and software teams
  • Strong software integration and quality assurance knowledge
  • Extensive project management expertise and experience
  • In-depth knowledge of software development and testing processes
  • Expertise in cloud platforms and scalable architectures
  • Deep understanding of generative AI system design and deployment

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team to develop innovative AI solutions
  • Ensure alignment with company goals for AI projects
  • Manage project timelines and quality standards
  • Foster a learning environment and address team development needs
  • Establish engineering best practices for consistent development processes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
  • 401(k) savings plans
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Career Development
  • Incentive bonus
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary: 
Join the AI Engineering team of Cat Digital and take charge of leading and coordinating a team dedicated to building advanced generative AI solutions—including intelligent agents, digital assistants, and other innovative capabilities. You will shape the development of cutting-edge products that redefine how customers and dealers interact with technology through AI-driven experiences. 

 
 What You Will Do: 

  • Providing strong technical support and clear direction to ensure the team is aligned with company goals and capable of delivering advanced AI projects. 

  • Managing resources efficiently to ensure projects are completed on schedule and to a high standard. 

  • Overseeing the performance of both individual team members and the team as a whole, fostering a culture of learning by identifying and addressing training and development needs. 

  • Establishing and supervising the implementation of engineering best practices to maintain consistency and excellence in development processes. 

  • Taking ownership of the quality of engineering products, making sure all solutions are robust, reliable, and meet high standards. 

 
 What You Will Have: 

  • Software Development: Expert knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements. 

  • Software Integration Engineering: Extensive knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages. 

  • Software Quality Assurance and Testing: Extensive knowledge of software quality assurance and testing; ability to apply appropriate processes, tools, and techniques for assuring a high level of quality in computer software products and systems. 

  • Organizational Leadership: Extensive knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives. 

 

 

Considerations For Top Candidates: 

 

  • Extensive software engineering leadership experience with leading AI and software teams in agile, matrixed organizations 

  • Demonstrated track record of delivering GenAI solutions and enterprise-scale products across hybrid cloud and embedded/edge environments. 

  • Experience delivering complex cross-functional digital projects in matrixed organizations. 

  • Proven experience with project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion.  

  • Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions. 

  • Should have strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills. 

  • Extensive experience with delivering software solutions at scale and complete grasp of fundamental concepts such as CI/CD, unit testing, integration testing, feature flags, blue/green deployments, canary deployments; experience with incident management 

  • Solid software engineering and distributed systems knowledge; understanding of scalable system design, APIs, microservices, and cloud/edge architectures, enabling effective integration of AI components into production-grade applications. 

  • Expertise in enterprise platforms and data ecosystems, hands-on experience with delivering data pipelines and data objects 

  • Working knowledge of major cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including designing and managing scalable, secure AI workloads using services such as Azure Foundry, SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, and S3 

  • Experience with Snowflake, including AI compute capabilities such as Cortex. 

  • Deep knowledge of GenAI system design, including prompt engineering patterns such as system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured output; agentic system concepts including tool use, planning, multi-agent orchestration, memory, guardrails; vector databases concepts such as chunking, embeddings; patterns such as RAG (sparse, dense, hybrid); fine-tuning approaches such as LoRA. 

  • Deep knowledge of GenAI model types, including LLMs, SLMs, speech, multimodal, and real-time models 

  • Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph 

  • Familiarity with MCP and A2A protocols 

  • Strong expertise in AI evaluation, model selection, benchmarking, and optimization across open-source and commercial model ecosystems. 

  • Strong foundationin AI productsevaluation and performance measurement, with deep familiarity with evaluation methodologies, including GenAI-specific metrics (e.g., RAG quality, output reliability), A/B testing, and human-in-the-loop validation to ensure robustness and consistency in production systems.


 

Summary Pay Range:

$172,630.00 - $258,950.00

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posting Dates:

June 5, 2026 - June 14, 2026

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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