Senior Robotics & Embodied AI Engineer

Caterpillar Brazil; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays

401(k) savings plans*

Health Savings Account (HSA)*

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

Career Development*

Incentive bonus*

Job summary

Caterpillar, a global engineering leader, seeks a Senior Robotics & Embodied AI Engineer to advance production-ready robotic systems. You will design, validate, and deploy autonomous capabilities across perception, planning, reasoning, learning, and controls, collaborating with software, hardware, validation, safety, and product teams.

The role emphasizes turning research into deployable solutions for real jobsites, with 5+ years in software, robotics, AI or autonomous systems and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience developing complex software, robotics, AI, or autonomous systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, C++, or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI and autonomy capabilities for robotic systems.
• Apply machine learning, foundation models, computer vision, and related technologies to solve real-world autonomy challenges.
• Own and contribute to systems that integrate perception, reasoning, planning, and action.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and support prototyping efforts to assess potential applications.
• Design and execute experiments, simulation scenarios, benchmarks, regression tests, and on-machine performance evaluations.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, infrastructure, research, validation, safety, and product teams to deliver production-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges across software, models, sensors, compute, and machine behavior, and optimize system performance for edge deployment.
• Lead and contribute to technical reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices, while mentoring other engineers.
• Own the transition of research concepts into scalable, observable, and deployable products.

Skills

Python

C++

Robotics

AI

Machine learning

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Embedded systems

Job description

Caterpillar, a global engineering leader, seeks a Senior Robotics & Embodied AI Engineer to advance production-ready robotic systems. You will design, validate, and deploy autonomous capabilities across perception, planning, reasoning, learning, and controls, collaborating with software, hardware, validation, safety, and product teams.

The role emphasizes turning research into deployable solutions for real jobsites, with 5+ years in software, robotics, AI or autonomous systems and strong