Senior Connectivity Engineer: Edge, Cloud & IoT Leader

Caterpillar Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a senior Connectivity Engineer to design and implement scalable machine-to-cloud connectivity architectures across edge, site, and cloud environments.

You will evaluate cellular, satellite, Wi‑Fi, and network technologies for remote and industrial use cases, delivering reliable, secure solutions. The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, leading architectural discussions, and advancing telemetry and data ingestion pipelines in collaboration with product and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Connectivity Engineering, Networking, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, or Industrial IoT.
• Advanced experience developing software using Python, C, C++, C#.
• Experience designing and supporting connected products and telematics platforms.
• Experience with Starlink and satellite communications, LTE, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and 5G.
• Experience with IoT and edge computing platforms, MQTT, Kafka, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements connectivity architectures spanning machine, edge, site, and cloud systems.
• Evaluates cellular, satellite, wireless, and networking technologies for specific business use cases.
• Develops resilient communication solutions for remote and mission-critical environments.
• Provides technical leadership on connectivity performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability.
• Troubleshoots and optimizes complex networking and communication infrastructures.

Skills

Python

C

C++

C#

Mentor engineers

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Agile

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related technical field

Tools

Starlink

LTE/5G

Private LTE/Private 5G

MQTT

Kafka

REST APIs

Azure

AWS

Edge computing platforms

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a senior Connectivity Engineer to design and implement scalable machine-to-cloud connectivity architectures across edge, site, and cloud environments.

You will evaluate cellular, satellite, Wi‑Fi, and network technologies for remote and industrial use cases, delivering reliable, secure solutions. The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, leading architectural discussions, and advancing telemetry and data ingestion pipelines in collaboration with product and