Engineering Manager, Autonomy Platform & Services

Caterpillar; United States; On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plan

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Manager Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams building Physical AI mission automation and remote-control platforms in Irving, TX. The role focuses on reliability of real-time autonomy systems and setting engineering standards across critical control platforms.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet evolving customer needs and enterprise strategy.

Qualifications

• Leadership of high-performing engineering teams and cross-functional collaboration.
• Design and evolution of reusable platform services and APIs for scale.
• Experience building scalable, cloud-native distributed systems and ensuring quality, performance, security and automation.
• Ability to detect risk, drive corrective actions, and improve operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams delivering autonomy execution services and platform capabilities.
• Define and execute a scalable platform vision aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and business partners to meet long-term needs.
• Drive design and development of Platform Services and APIs with reusability and future use cases in mind.
• Seek opportunities to improve organizational efficiencies.

Skills

Organizational leadership

Software architecture

Cloud-native systems

Platform services & APIs

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Manager Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams building Physical AI mission automation and remote-control platforms in Irving, TX. The role focuses on reliability of real-time autonomy systems and setting engineering standards across critical control platforms.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet evolving customer needs and enterprise strategy.