Agentic Robotics 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. 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.

Be Part of What’s Next in Autonomous Construction Sites. Construction autonomy is one of the most complex challenges in applied AI, and at Caterpillar, advancements in physical AI, simulation, sensing, and edge computing are turning things that once felt impossible–intelligent machines operating in dynamic jobsites–into reality. Our connected ecosystem brings together massive volumes of high-quality data to create a foundation where engineers like you can build and deploy against.

Job Summary:

The Agentic Robotics Architect owns how machines plan and orchestrate multi-step work – the agentic layer of planning, task decomposition, tool use, memory, and deliberative reasoning. The Principal Digital Architect for Agentic Robotics is responsible for the architecture that lets autonomous machines break goals into tasks, choose and use tools and capabilities, maintain memory and context, and reason deliberatively to complete complex jobs.

Squarely within Robotics – reasoning, planning, VLA, and behavior generation – this role defines the agentic patterns, the planning and decision interfaces, and the memory and state approach, and connects them to VLA and behavior generation. Bottom line, you are the architecture that lets machines plan, decide, and get complex jobs done.

• 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…