Senior Agentic Robotics Architect — AI Planning & Autonomy

Caterpillar Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an Agentic Robotics Architect/Principal Digital Architect to define planning, task decomposition, tool usage, memory, and deliberative reasoning for autonomous machines.

You will shape agentic patterns, interfaces, and connections to VLA and behavior generation within robotics and AI domains. You will drive architecture that lets machines plan, decide, and execute complex jobs, collaborating with teams across engineering, data science, and cloud platforms at

Qualifications

• Experience architecting planning, task decomposition, and deliberative reasoning systems for robotics, autonomy, or agentic AI.
• Knowledge of AI/ML and robotics with software architecture experience.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor and influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Design the application's technical infrastructure, including databases, languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Lead evaluation and deployment of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into digital solutions.

Skills

Agentic systems planning

Tool use & orchestration

Memory & state management

VLA integration

Strategic architecture leadership

Communication & mentoring

Tools

Public cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Robotics/AI frameworks

Edge computing

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an Agentic Robotics Architect/Principal Digital Architect to define planning, task decomposition, tool usage, memory, and deliberative reasoning for autonomous machines.

You will shape agentic patterns, interfaces, and connections to VLA and behavior generation within robotics and AI domains. You will drive architecture that lets machines plan, decide, and execute complex jobs, collaborating with teams across engineering, data science, and cloud platforms at