Senior Software Engineer (Autonomy Services)

About the Role

Your work shapes the world at Caterpillar Inc. As part of a global team, you'll contribute to creating stronger, more sustainable communities through innovation and problem-solving. This role focuses on building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. You'll work with a unique data foundation—over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily—to develop AI models, edge computing architectures, and scalable software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership on complex engineering problems and guide implementation decisions across features and services.
• Lead development of new functionality on cross-functional Agile teams and partner with product and architecture stakeholders to deliver business value.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and feedback to improve technical quality and team effectiveness.
• Drive engineering excellence through strong practices in architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools and software engineering agents to accelerate design, implementation, testing, refactoring, and documentation; define clear task context and verification criteria.
• Guide full-stack implementation tradeoffs across API, service, and UI boundaries while remaining primarily focused on backend microservice design and delivery.
• Contribute to application and interface design, technical documentation, and scalable integration patterns across the platform.
• Identify and resolve root causes for complex production and development issues while improving system resilience over time.

Requirements

• Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design and technical approaches.
• Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop, and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to transmit, receive, and interpret ideas, information, and needs.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering capability with Java 17+ and Spring Boot to design and deliver RESTful APIs using microservices principles.
• Proven ability to build secure, scalable platform services in a cloud environment such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience deploying backend services in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted and agentic software development workflows.
• Ability to review, validate, test, and refine AI-generated code and pull requests for correctness, maintainability, performance, security, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Knowledge of responsible AI usage and secure coding practices in AI-assisted development.

Nice to Have

• Experience building production AI agents using Python.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Experience integrating LLMs with external tools, APIs, databases, and retrieval systems.
• Experience designing evals, guardrails, and monitoring for agent reliability.
• Multi-agent workflow design and memory/context management.
• Prompt optimization, latency reduction, and cost control.
• MLOps or model deployment experience.

Additional Details

This position requires the candidate to be based in Irving, TX (Dallas). Domestic relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are available for this position. The role is onsite five days a week.

Pay

Pay Range: $112,710.00 - $183,140.00. Compensation and benefits may vary depending on job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance, and experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits (subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines).
• Paid time off (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.).
• 401(k) savings plans.
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
• Health Lifestyle Programs.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts.
• Career Development.
• Incentive bonus.
• Disability benefits.
• Life Insurance.
• Parental leave.
• Adoption benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement.