Senior Autonomy Engineer

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining a global team who cares not just about the work we do but also about each other. We are the makers problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger more sustainable communities. We dontjust talk about progress and innovation here we make it happen with our customers where we work and live. Together we are building a better world so we can all enjoy living in it.

Our focus isnt just on what we build but how we build it. We scale technology solutions across the business. We spearhead product development tools and processes. We collaborate with our partners to provide a seamless experience for our customers. We are obsessed with speed simplicity and customer outcomes.

Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation research and development manufacturing automation and advanced materials ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Autonomy Engineer your responsibilities in software development will be focused on positioning and localization youll collaborate with team members to prototype and bring to production algorithms that enable autonomous & semiautonomous systems to localize robustly within the world around them. This includes estimating position and altitude absolutely but also relatively to terrain features and static or mobile equipment and implementing filters using perception-based inertial and GNSS inputs. Every day you will work with your team to solve real world problems by selecting the right approach developing quick prototypes & bringing them to production. The localization developer will participate in various aspects of the development process including design documentation coding product quality and validation. To excel in this role you must be able to write and test high quality production code and enjoy solving challenging problems.

What You Will Do:

• Research and design of localization algorithms and software

• Develop production quality C software including design documentation coding product quality and validation

• Contributes to requirements generation and architecture design considerations for the localization architecture

• Support functional safety software design and validation process

• Collaborate and mentor localization team members to execute on goals

What You Will Have:

Problem Solving:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

• Software Development Life Cycle:

  • Identifies common issues problems and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.

  • Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.

Programming:

• Excellency in C

• Fluency in Python

• Interprets application system designs and program specifications.

• Strong engineering practices debugging/profiling skills.

• Applies structured programming techniques to structured environments.

Technical Troubleshooting:

• Discovers analyzes and resolves software or application problems.

• Analyzes code logs and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.

• Records and reports specific technical problems solving processes and tools that have been used.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

• Bachelors degree Masters degree or PhD in an accredited Robotics Electrical or Computer engineering or Computer Science degree

• 4 years of Robotics/Autonomous solution experience illustrating deep technical domain expertise

• Proven experience implementing filtering solutionsincluding Error State Kalman and Extended Kalman

• In depth knowledge of Inertial Measurement technology and Inertial Based Navigation and/or Guidance Systems

• Ability to survey literature for ideas and convert research papers into production implementation

• Knowledge of robotics and frameworks such as Robot Operating System (ROS)

• Strong foundation in mathematics and fundamentals (3D geometry linear algebra statistical error modeling including Gauss Markov Processes)

• Ability to work in various coordinate system references and perform transformations between

• Understanding of Physics based modeling vehicle modeling and dynamics

• Development of LiDAr Radar and Vision-based localization estimation in off road / underground environments

• Experience with end-to-end perception based localization mapping pipelines

• Experience with Geomatics and GIS Systems including geodetic coordinate manipulation

Additional Information:

• This position requires working onsite five days a week

• Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however as a global company Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of Australia which can be found through our employment website at position requires working onsite five days a week.

  Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

  Posting Dates:

  June 18 2026 - July 2 2026

  Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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