Senior Autonomy Engineer – Real-World Robotics & AI

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

Job summary

Caterpillar in Irving, TX is seeking a Lead Robotics Engineer to join the engineering team on-site. You will build and deploy autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning, taking prototypes to production on real hardware.

The role requires deep robotics expertise, experience with AI and SLAM, production-grade C++ and Python, and ROS. You will work in cross-functional pods, owning components end-to-end and supporting field deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related engineering experience.
• Production-quality software development across robotics stacks.
• Experience taking robotics products from idea to production.
• Strong robotics generalist across autonomy stack and end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Participating in test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of robotics software.
• Design, build, and ship autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning.
• Take work from prototype to production on real hardware.
• Bring depth in your specialty while contributing broadly across the stack.

Skills

Robotics generalist

AI

C++

Python

ROS

SLAM

Motion planning

Perception

Controls

Tools

ROS

Git

Linux

Job description

Caterpillar in Irving, TX is seeking a Lead Robotics Engineer to join the engineering team on-site. You will build and deploy autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning, taking prototypes to production on real hardware.

The role requires deep robotics expertise, experience with AI and SLAM, production-grade C++ and Python, and ROS. You will work in cross-functional pods, owning components end-to-end and supporting field deployments.