Caterpillar, Inc

Senior Autonomy Engineer

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $208K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, connectivity engineering, network engineering, cloud engineering, or distributed systems.
  • Expertise in Starlink and satellite communications, LTE, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and 5G technologies.
  • Experience with telematics platforms, edge computing solutions, and cloud-native application architectures.
  • Proven success in leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of connectivity solutions.
  • Develops software and infrastructure for machine telemetry and remote operations.
  • Evaluates and implements cutting-edge connectivity technologies like 5G and satellite communications.
  • Designs scalable telemetry and data transport architectures from edge devices to cloud platforms.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

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
  • Tuition Reimbursement
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Engineering

Job Description:

The Senior Autonomy Engineer defines and delivers resilient connectivity solutions that keep connected, autonomous, and uncrewed machines operating reliably in demanding field environments. This role provides technical leadership across wireless networking, edge computing, cloud connectivity, telemetry, and data pipelines. You will guide architecture, implementation, validation, and operational support while shaping engineering standards and long-term platform decisions.

What You Will Do:
  • Lead the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support of connectivity solutions across machine, site, edge, and cloud environments.
  • Design resilient communication and telemetry platforms for remote and autonomous operations, including cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, multi-link failover, and high-throughput sensor data transfer.
  • Translate product and business needs into scalable technical solutions, evaluating tradeoffs across reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
  • Lead complex technical investigations, architecture reviews, and root-cause analysis across networking, connectivity, and data pipelines.
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns, mentor engineers, and identify emerging technologies that improve platform capability and customer value.


What You Will Have:
  • Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
  • Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Strong technical leadership, including architecture reviews, design guidance, documentation, mentoring, and collaboration across engineering and stakeholder teams.
  • Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. Ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-stack networking issues and present recommendations supported by technical evidence and operational data.
  • Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges. Experience designing scalable telemetry, event-streaming, real-time, batch, and cloud-native solutions for large volumes of machine and sensor data.
  • Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. Ability to communicate complex connectivity and platform concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
  • Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design. Demonstrated expertise in connectivity and distributed-system architecture, including cellular, satellite communications, edge computing, industrial networking, and edge-to-cloud data flows.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI); ability to develop, implement and/or apply artificial intelligence products and services in specific industry domain to achieve business goals.


Top Candidate Will Have:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related field, plus 5 or more years of relevant experience in software, connectivity, networking, cloud engineering, or distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with connected or autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aerial, maritime, or ground systems, remote operations, or comparable safety-relevant platforms.
  • Experience with wireless bonding, multi-WAN link aggregation, redundant-path design, Starlink or other satellite communications, and LTE, LTE-M, NB-IoT, private LTE, or 5G technologies.
  • Experience moving high-bandwidth camera, LIDAR, radar, or other sensor data from vehicle or edge environments to cloud platforms at scale.
  • Preferred experience with industrial Internet of Things environments, device management, telemetry platforms, data pipelines, or autonomy technologies such as perception, sensor fusion, and path planning.


Additional Details:
  • This position requires the candidate to work full-time at our Irving, Texas office.
  • Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
  • Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
  • This position may require up to 20% travel


Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $208,770.00

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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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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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