Autonomy Safety Systems Engineer (C++ | Onsite)

Caterpillar Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Paid time off

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX, is seeking an Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer to design, implement, and deploy production C++ software for operator safety in heavy equipment.

You will own perception pipelines, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across a safety-focused team. The role emphasizes real-time systems, embedded edge processing, and collaboration with systems, validation, product, and field teams to translate needs into clear software requirements and plans.

Qualifications

• Advanced C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, or safety-oriented systems.
• Interprets system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex safety-system features.
• Strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
• Applies structured, maintainable software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, and field-support constraints

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and release production-quality C++ software for operator safety systems on heavy equipment.
• Develop and integrate software components that support operator awareness, personnel detection, collision mitigation, and safety-oriented machine responses.
• Build and maintain camera, sensor, and perception data pipelines for real-time or near-real-time safety applications.
• Lead software architecture and design trade-off discussions with a focus on reliability, maintainability, latency, diagnosability, and field supportability.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, validation, product, and field teams to translate safety-system needs into clear software requirements and implementation plans.
• Troubleshoot complex software and system issues using logs, traces, telemetry, sensor data, profiling tools, and field observations
• Facilitate design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and technical discussions across cross-functional engineering teams
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to developers, systems engineers, stakeholders, and leadership
• Mentor engineers and improve team execution through strong development practices, technical guidance, and example

Skills

Advanced C++ development

Real-time systems

Embedded Linux

Robotics perception

Debugging/profiling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

GStreamer

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX, is seeking an Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer to design, implement, and deploy production C++ software for operator safety in heavy equipment.

You will own perception pipelines, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across a safety-focused team. The role emphasizes real-time systems, embedded edge processing, and collaboration with systems, validation, product, and field teams to translate needs into clear software requirements and plans.