Senior Gen AI Engineer: AI Pipelines & Edge Deployments

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Career development

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Generative AI projects, building assistants and AI-infused data processing pipelines. You will contribute to tooling, production-ready software, and scalable architectures at Cat Digital.

You will collaborate with data scientists and cross-functional teams to deploy Gen AI solutions on AWS, optimize edge deployment, and ensure robust pipelines using FastAPI, LangChain, and LangGraph.

Qualifications

• 5+ years or more of software development experience and solid working knowledge of OOP principles.
• 3+ years or more of designing and developing software applications in Python and/or GoLang (Nice to have frontend integration experience).
• Experience with modern Gen AI system architectures and techniques (multi agent, big tool, context management, MCP, long term memory).
• Exceptional communication skills with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar for deployment.
• Familiarity with AWS components like SageMaker Studio, Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS.
• Technical writing skills and ability to document design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy Gen AI solutions using Python/Go and OOP principles.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Deploy solutions on AWS using CloudFormation.
• Work with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and Crew.ai.
• Apply knowledge of LLMs and prompt engineering concepts.
• Develop services with FastAPI on AWS and deploy to edge devices.
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionize analytics solutions for scalability.
• Assist in building ML/AI pipelines with Apache Airflow.

Skills

Python

GoLang

OOP

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

AWS

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Crew.ai

LLMs

Prompt engineering

FastAPI

Edge deployment

Tools

GitHub Actions

Git

SageMaker Studio

Lambda

API Gateway

RDS

CloudFormation

FastAPI

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Generative AI projects, building assistants and AI-infused data processing pipelines. You will contribute to tooling, production-ready software, and scalable architectures at Cat Digital.

You will collaborate with data scientists and cross-functional teams to deploy Gen AI solutions on AWS, optimize edge deployment, and ensure robust pipelines using FastAPI, LangChain, and LangGraph.