Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Description
Caterpillar is the industry leader in heavy duty industrial autonomous earthmoving solutions and looking to grow on our journey as we continue to bring advanced solutions to meet our customer's demanding needs. Tired of effortlessly solving your 17x17x17 Rubik's cube? Millennium Prize Problems a little too easy? Our electro-hydraulic machine automation solutions stretch the boundaries of advanced engineering domains and incorporate some of the highest levels of functionally safe electrical architectures, ensuring the industry best level of quality and reliability for our customers while also maximizing your engineering prowess. Our team is focused on evolving the state of the art and bringing emerging automation & autonomy technology into the harsh production environment found on typical mining and construction jobsites. You will be joining an elite team with a startup feel, while also having the benefit of a vast network of experienced resources at your fingertips.
As the Localization & Mapping Architect, you'll research, prototype, and bring to production algorithms that enable autonomous & semiautonomous systems to estimate their position and attitude absolutely but also relatively to terrain features, static or mobile equipment. That includes building suitable environment representation for dynamic environments in a distributed manner, implementing filters using perception-based, inertial, and GNSS inputs. We're looking for a primarily hands-on engineer, who's capable of taking real-world problems, turning them into well-defined projects, surveying and selecting the right approach, developing quick prototypes & bringing them to production. The Architect will work with senior level technology strategists, mentor junior engineers and have design input to current and future technologies and strategies. You will also have input on how to build the team and help lead them as the technology evolves over time.
Responsibilities
Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects to deliver on localization and mapping routines to achieve autonomy objectives.
Define and manage system requirements, interfaces, and high-level architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the localization architecture.
Work with functional safety team to manage safety case development and validation process
Provide the team with technical leadership and contribute technically to projects
Collaborate with product team, other engineering leaders, and key stakeholders to lead the team to execute on goals
Use your experience to advise and improve on development process and practices
Basic Qualifications
Master's degree or PhD in an accredited Robotics, Electrical or Computer engineering or Computer Science degree
10+ years of experience in Industrial Machine advanced technology development illustrating deep technical domain expertise
5+ years of Robotics/Autonomous solution experience with hands-on technical leadership
Top Candidates will also have
Strong understanding of software engineering principles and processes along with the ability to apply this knowledge to execute projects and optimize development strategies, including experience with SLAM type approaches, map creation and map management as applied to localization applications, and utilization of graph optimization libraries and spatial data structures
Knowledge of robotics and frameworks such as ROS
Fluency in Python, excellency in C++, strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
Ability to survey literature for ideas and convert research papers into production implementation.
Strong foundation in mathematics and fundamentals (3D geometry, linear algebra, Kalman/particle filters)
Proven track record of leading and delivering complex technical projects with multi-disciplinary teams
Additional Information
The location for this position is Pittsburgh PA, Mossville IL, or San Francisco CA.
Both domestic and global relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
VISA sponsorship is available for this position.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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Relocation is available for this position.Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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