Spatial Intelligence Architect

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. 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. Help Build the Future of Caterpillar – At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. If this work motivates you, we invite you to join our team. In these roles, you’ll work at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.

You’ll help design and deliver intelligent systems that enable machines to perceive their environment, make informed decisions, and support safer, more productive operations.

The Spatial Intelligence Architect owns how the machine reasons about space to plan and get work done — turning intelligence into precise motion and implement action on the jobsite. The Principal Digital Architect for Spatial Intelligence is responsible for defining the spatial-reasoning architecture that lets autonomous machines reason about space, terrain, reach, and their own footprint and implement to plan and execute work.

Squarely within Robotics — reasoning, planning, VLA, and behavior generation — this role turns upstream environment inputs into motion and implement planning: positioning the machine and planning how its work tool (bucket, blade, boom) does the job, not just navigating a path. The architect defines the spatial reasoning behind task and motion planning, spatially grounded VLA, and behavior generation, and sets the standards and interfaces for what Robotics consumes from upstream teams without owning those upstream functions.

Bottom line, you are the spatial reasoning that turns an autonomous machine’s plans into real work on the jobsite.

Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems. Designing an application’s technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches. Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities. Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.

ANALYTICAL THINKING:
Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems. APPLICATION DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE:
Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design. PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE:
Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes. REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS:
Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyse and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. TARGET ARCHITECTURE:
Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop…