Caterpillar Inc. is looking to advance technologies including autonomy and automation to enhance site safety, productivity, and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. The Autonomy Engineer will focus on positioning and localization algorithms to enable autonomous & semi-autonomous systems to localize robustly within their environment.
Requirements
- Excellency in C++
- Fluency in Python
- Strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
- Experience with localization including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) type approaches, utilization of graph-optimization libraries, and overall state estimation
- Knowledge of robotics and frameworks such as Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Strong foundation in mathematics and fundamentals (3D geometry, linear algebra).
- Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Research and design of localization algorithms and software
- Develop production quality C++ software including design, documentation, coding, product quality, and validation
- Support requirements generation and architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the localization architecture
- Support functional safety software design and validation process
- Collaborate with localization team members to execute on goals
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
- Discovers, analyzes, and resolves software or application problems.
Other
- The individual should be a self-starter, highly motivated, able to learn at an accelerated pace, and willing to put in the time to get the job done.
- To excel in this role, you must be able to write and test high quality production code and enjoy solving challenging problems.
- This position requires working onsite five days a week.
- Relocation is available for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
