SENIOR AUTONOMY ENGINEER

Caterpillar; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar, Irving, Texas, seeks a Senior Autonomy Engineer to define and deliver resilient connectivity solutions for connected, autonomous, and uncrewed machines. You will guide architecture, validation, and operational support across wireless networking, edge computing, and cloud connectivity.

You will lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and drive platform decisions while balancing reliability, security, and performance in demanding field environments.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Hands-on experience with connected or autonomous vehicle platforms or comparable safety-relevant systems.
• Ability to move high-bandwidth sensor data from edge to cloud at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support of connectivity solutions across machine, site, edge, and cloud environments.
• Design resilient telemetry platforms for remote and autonomous operations, including data transfer and edge-to-cloud pipelines.
• Translate product and business needs into scalable technical solutions with consideration for reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Lead complex investigations, architecture reviews, and root-cause analysis across networking and data pipelines.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, mentor engineers, and identify emerging technologies.

Skills

Communication of complex concepts

Effective communications

Managing multiple priorities

Technical excellence

Strategic thinking

Influencing through expertise

Software product design/architecture

Artificial intelligence concepts

Connectivity and networking

Cloud engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Cellular networks

Satellite communications

Edge computing

LTE/5G technologies

Job description

Career Area:

Engineering

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

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.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

Locations:

IRVING, TEXAS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA