Autonomy Team Leader

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**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 Assists in the design, definition, development, and test of the robotics software development; collaborates with senior engineers to ensure that internal and external clients' needs are met. Responsibilities - Collecting and researching data on customer experience with robotic platforms; preparing reports for management. - Documenting architecture specifications, software design description, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures, and safety procedures. - Utilizing appropriate tools to debug, test and maintain software and hardware systems of robotic tools; assisting in the verification and validation process. - Participating in design and development of application software and algorithms for robotic platforms. - Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum. Degree Requirement Degree required Skill Descriptors Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: - Educates others on own organization in terms of the industry - its market position, niche (if any), etc.. - Compares and contrasts the latest developments and emerging issues in the industry. - Raises coworkers' awareness of industry standards, practices and guidelines. - Assesses how regulatory and reporting requirements apply to own organization. - Explains the development of industry segments - trends, consequences, key issues. - Discusses industry-specific cycles and associated considerations. Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: - Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort. - Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts. - Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate. - Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes. - Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies. - Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace. Level Extensive Experience: - Explains how to use multiple, vendor-provided or in-house structured methodologies. - Describes tasks, tools and practices for converting software product requirements into a design. - Demonstrates experience with all phases and deliverables of the product development methodology. - Implements the generic functions, features and facilities of modern structured methods. - Explores and evaluates major structured methodologies available in the marketplace. - Consults on effective application of structured product development methodologies. Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements. Level Extensive Experience: - Has experience with planning and executing full spectrum of tests for multiple products. - Provides input to design team to ensure testing considerations are incorporated into system design. - Creates test scenarios that ensure all error handling processes perform as expected. - Defines, creates, and executes test plans and cases; estimates time, effort and resources required. - Explains approaches and tools for functional, reliability, and vulnerability testing. - Discusses applications of iterative testing using agile methodologies. Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for developing applications. Level Extensive Experience: - Evaluates toolkits used to support major production systems. - Resolves issues regarding functions, features and components of multiple toolkits. - Provides implementation support on toolkit enhancements or changes. - Interprets benefits and drawbacks of procedural and event-driven toolkits. - Oversees the evaluation and recommendation of delivery tools and platforms. - Coaches others on appropriate uses of all major tools in a toolkit for a specific platform. Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI); ability to develop, implement and/or apply artificial intelligence products and services in specific industry domain to achieve business goals. Level Working Knowledge: - Performs basic tasks within a specific artificial intelligence area, such as self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, playing games, financial fraud detection, etc. - Assists in business requirements analysis in the AI solution design or deployment process. - Maintains and/or updates AI systems and equipment on a regular basis. - Deploys, develops or operates specific AI products, equipment, systems and/or platforms to achieve certain business goals. - Tests and troubleshoots th