Senior Autonomy & Safety Systems Engineer

NCSL International; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar seeks an Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer to design, implement, and deliver production-quality C/C++ software for safety features on heavy equipment. You will work with cross-functional teams across systems, validation, product, UI/UX, hardware, and field staff to translate safety needs into reliable software.

The role requires real-time embedded Linux experience, strong debugging and profiling skills, and a hands-on approach to end-to-end software lifecycle—from design

Qualifications

• Advanced C/C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, machine control, or safety-oriented systems.
• Ability to interpret system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex operator safety features.
• Strong engineering practices, including modular design, debugging, profiling, code review, static analysis, and maintainable implementation.
• Ability to apply structured software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, usability, and field-support constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and release production-quality C/C++ software for Operator Safety Systems on heavy equipment.
• Develop and integrate software components that support operator awareness, personnel detection, collision mitigation support, in-cab alerts, event capture, diagnostics, and safety-oriented machine responses.
• Build and maintain camera, sensor, perception, and data-processing pipelines for real-time safety applications.
• Participate across the full software development lifecycle including design, documentation, coding, unit testing, integration, validation support, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, validation, product, UI/UX, hardware, and field teams to translate operator safety needs into clear software requirements and implementation plans.

Skills

C/C++ development

Embedded systems

Real-time software

Software architecture

Diagnostics & debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

UI/UX awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

GStreamer

Linux

Git/CI-CD

Qt

Job description

Caterpillar seeks an Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer to design, implement, and deliver production-quality C/C++ software for safety features on heavy equipment. You will work with cross-functional teams across systems, validation, product, UI/UX, hardware, and field staff to translate safety needs into reliable software.

The role requires real-time embedded Linux experience, strong debugging and profiling skills, and a hands-on approach to end-to-end software lifecycle—from design