Career Area:
Engineering
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.
Role Definition
Caterpillar’s Autonomy and Automation Group is building the autonomous planning platform that moves machines and manipulates terrain across construction sites.
As a Path Planning Engineer, you will design the navigation and terrain planning that lets autonomous machines drive, dig, and dump safely and efficiently — from stationary digging to high-speed machine navigation. This is an ideal prospect for someone with experience in developing path planning algorithms, perception techniques and implementing production quality software in C++.
Responsibilities
1. Develop navigation planning — route generation, path planning over drivable terrain, and obstacle avoidance
2. Build motion planning that issues control commands to accurately track planned paths
3. Design terrain planning that decides where machines engage terrain — dig, dump, and push
4. Implement trajectory generation and obstacle avoidance.
5. Create reusable planning libraries and common data objects such as path geometry and zones
6. Develop search and optimization algorithms and motion & terrain interaction prediction models
7. Develop production quality code and own your algorithms from design to production
8. Integrate with Vehicle Controls
9. Run simulation for path planning algorithm development and test various scenarios
10. Test code on construction equipment.
Required Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineerin