Senior Perception Engineer

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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.

Cat Technology collaborates with partners across the Caterpillar enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

As the Senior Perception Engineer, you will be responsible for developing cutting-edge autonomous and operator-assisted driving systems. As the Senior Perception Engineer, you will design, implement, and test algorithms for sensor fusion, object detection, tracking and classification. You will also collaborate with other engineers and researchers to integrate your solutions into our software stack and hardware platform.

Additional Information:

• Location:  Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
• Required Travel: Up to 10% (Domestic/International)
• Relocation Assistance Offered: Yes (Domestic).
• Canada Work Authorization Sponsorship Offered: None.
• This position requires the selected individual to work onsite at the Pittsburgh, PA office.

What You Will Do:

• Solve challenging perception problems for mobile off-road machines.
• Participate in design and development of high-quality perception software and algorithms to solve our customer needs.
• Document architecture specifications, software design, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures, and safety procedures.
• Work with application teams to collect and analyze data on customer experience with robotic and manned platforms. Work with others to analyze and annotate date for ML training. Participate in the iterative ML training cycles to meet perception requirements.
• Use appropriate tools to debug, test and maintain perception software and assist in the verification and validation process.
• Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time-to-time.

What You Have (Basic Requirements):

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent technical degree.
• Artificial Intelligence/Autonomy: 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.
• 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.
• Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools; ability to test, write, design, debug, troubleshoot and maintain source codes and computer programs.
• Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for developing applications.
• 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.

What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications):

• Working knowledge of mobile robotics perception for autonomy or advanced operator assist systems, including a working knowledge of computer vision, machine learning and deep learning techniques and familiarity with lidar, radar and cameras as perception sensors.
• Proven ability to work independently and within a team.
• Previous experience with the Agile software development life cycle.
• Previous experience with C++ and Python programming languages.
• Eigen, Azure DevOps or Jira for project management and work item tracking.
• Experience with standard software development tools (CMake, Git, SonarQube, Docker, Googl