Principal Technical Product Manager - Autonomy Platform Capabilities

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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 don't just 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.

At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers' toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world-on real jobsites, at global scale.

You'll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations-over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily. These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.

The Principal Technical Product Manager - Autonomy Platform Capabilities leads the alignment, adoption, and execution of strategic architectural and infrastructure initiatives that enable autonomous solutions s role serves as the primary orchestrator across architectural domains, driving convergence on system architecture, platform strategy, and foundational infrastructure investments that support multiple autonomy product and technology areas.

Working closely with Architecture, System Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data, Safety, Deployment, and Infrastructure teams, the Principal Technical Product Manager drives the development and evolution of architectural frameworks, platform capabilities, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure required to build scalable, interoperable, and sustainable autonomy solutions. The role aligns priorities, resolves cross-domain dependencies, and helps translate long-term architectural vision into actionable roadmaps and investment strategies.

The position partners closely with Technical Product Managers and engineering leaders to ensure architectural decisions, platform evolution, and infrastructure investments remain aligned with business objectives and product outcomes. By accelerating adoption of common architectural patterns, shared platforms, and foundational infrastructure, the Principal Technical Product Manager helps reduce complexity, increase capability reuse, and strengthen the technical foundations of the autonomy ecosystem.

Maximize the value of the autonomy ecosystem and define work across multiple scrum teams, platforms, and architectural domains. Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, Product Owners, System Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Data, Safety, Deployment, and Infrastructure teams to own and progressively elaborate system-level Epics, Features, architectural capabilities, and infrastructure requirements.

• Own definition of acceptance criteria for platform capabilities, architectural services, ecosystem infrastructure, and foundational technology investments.
• Drive alignment across domain Technical Product Managers to ensure product roadmaps leverage common architectures, platforms, and shared services.
• Define and communicate the long-term architectural vision, ecosystem strategy, and infrastructure roadmap supporting autonomous solutions.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to ensure technical solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and long-term scalability objectives.
• Establish and maintain architectural roadmaps that support future growth, interoperability, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Identify, manage, and communicate ecosystem-level dependencies, technical debt, architectural risks, and infrastructure constraints across multiple product domains.
• Drive tradeoff discussions and prioritization decisions balancing business value, platform adoption, architectural sustainability, technical complexity, and delivery timelines.
• Ensure autonomy products and services integrate effectively through common interfaces, standards, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Establish and maintain visibility into platform adoption, ecosystem health, architectural maturity, infrastructure readiness, and strategic technology investments.
• Partner with Data, Safety, Deployment, and Infrastructure teams to ensure foundational services support system-level reliability, scalability, security, and operational…