AI Engineering Manager: Cloud‑Native Agents & Tools

Caterpillar Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Flex spending accounts

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team designing, building, and operating cloud-native AI agents and tooling for enterprise-scale AI solutions.

You will guide end-to-end delivery, establish best practices, ensure security and responsible AI, and collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and other engineers to deliver AI-enabled capabilities. The role emphasizes leadership, hands-on software engineering expertise, and a track record of

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead software engineering teams and deliver results.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering principles and distributed cloud-native applications.
• Experience designing scalable, resilient software platforms.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering, security best practices, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Organizational leadership

Software development

Software architecture

Software quality & operations

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team designing, building, and operating cloud-native AI agents and tooling for enterprise-scale AI solutions.

You will guide end-to-end delivery, establish best practices, ensure security and responsible AI, and collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and other engineers to deliver AI-enabled capabilities. The role emphasizes leadership, hands-on software engineering expertise, and a track record of