Caterpillar Inc.

General

• Continuous employment for engineering/technology/computer science students focused on product development
• Work full-time in-person during the summer and part-time throughout the school year
• Complete design & simulation tasks in support of Caterpillar product development
• Collaborate with engineering teams to engineer components & systems for Caterpillar products
• Develop/Implement control system algorithms using Matlab/Simulink
• Design and test electronic control modules and components
• Develop embedded software in C, C# and/or C++ for various electronic control modules
• Verify functionality on a HIL [Hardware in the Loop] simulator bench or a SIL [Software in the loop] system
• Analyze and optimize engineering processes

Corporate Co-op Program

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• Focus on building business acumen in roles including (but not limited to): Business Operations, Marketing, Product Support Engineering.
• Define and deliver premium online experiences that generate leads, sales, and customer loyalty.
• Shape and support our brand by creating compelling stories and customer experiences aligned with business needs.
• Sell and support our products/services and deliver superior service and industry expertise for our dealers and customers.

Corporate Intern – Commercial

Full-stack Engineer

• Designing and developing web applications using the Adobe platform, including site structure, custom components, custom workflows, object model designs (Java APIs), and unit testing
• Headless CMS experience
• Good understanding on AEMaacs (Adobe Experience Manager as a cloud solution)
• Developing, implementing and configuring web content management solutions using AEM (Adobe CQ) and technologies such as Java, HTML, JavaScript, and web services
• Providing input into planning and estimates, and executing technical tasks following the Agile methodology including SCRUM
• Define, document and communicate technical features and requirements for implementation.
• Implement complex business requirements and features defined by the technical architect or business analyst.
• Review code and make recommendations for other engineers.

Senior Software Engineer – AEM

Application Engineer

• Providing product application expertise at point of sale, or by delivering various types of product training including applied technology, job efficiency, and safety to customers, company and dealers' sales personnel
• Developing and maintaining application and installation manuals, technical communications
• Preparing and conducting product and application training for dealers and end customers
• Assisting customers and dealers with complex or unique applications

Application & Installation Engineer – Transmission and Driveline

• Pricing interns work in a team environment to establish and execute optimal price levels for various products and services at Caterpillar.
• Provide pricing recommendations and a thorough analysis of various business indicators including sales, competitive environment, and product value characteristics.
• Collaborate with product, sales, marketing, accounting, and supply chain teams to drive value-based pricing strategies.
• Execute strategic and tactical price action within a robust pricing governance framework.

Corporate Intern – Pricing

Accounting Manager

• Creating reports on financial performance for internal and external use.
• Take part in special projects and ad hoc reporting requests.
• Estimate various forecast and budget scenarios.
• Specifies, builds, maintains, and runs data extracts from various subsystems that contain account-level information.
• Produces a daily balance sheet to assist the trading desk.
• Posting entries, verifying, and reconciling input to financial reporting systems.
• Entering transactions and reconciling various reports

Corporate Intern – Accounting

• Interns will be emersed in designing and rapidly developing consistent customer-centric, premium digital experiences.
• Interns will work to help simplify enterprise digital infrastructure, accelerate application development, ensuring greater data availability, quality and security.
• Interns will apply analytics techniques on a very large set of diverse data from IoT connected assets, anomaly detection, business analytics, data visualization, and business marketing analytics.
• Interns will help drive deployment and support of Caterpillar’s key digital products and maturing data management processes.

Corporate Intern – Digital and Analytics

Representative

• Build strong knowledge of Caterpillar, its products, services, and customers
• Grow through hands-on technical training and professional development
• Collaborate with experts across product, marketing, sales, and dealer management
• Complete diverse rotational assignments to gain enterprise-wide exposure
• Serve as a key connection between Caterpillar and its dealer network

Field Representative Development Program – 2027

Manager

• Leads the definition, governance, and continuous improvement of quality management practices across the Cat® Foresight and Cat® Inspect product portfolio.
• Ensures quality is proactively built into product development, release, and production operations through robust controls, risk identification, and disciplined execution.
• Provides leadership and support to product, engineering, program management, and support teams to prevent defects, improve production stability, and ensure high-confidence delivery of digital products and services.
• Establishes and governs portfolio-wide quality standards, controls, and release readiness criteria to proactively mitigate risk and ensure delivery quality across all modules and capabilities.
• Partners with product, engineering, and program teams to identify quality risks early and integrate mitigation strategies into development and release plans.
• Leads incident response and coordination for quality-related issues, including triage, stakeholder communication, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Defines, tracks, and analyzes quality metrics (e.g., escaped defects, incident trends, production stability) to drive data-informed decision making and continuous improvement.
• Oversees quality support for critical deliverables, ensuring functional, integration, regression, performance, and operational readiness standards are met.
• Establishes and facilitates quality governance forums, including release readiness reviews, defect management, production health reviews, and post-incident analysis.
• Coordinates with engineering, architecture, and support teams to ensure quality across integrations, APIs, data flows, and cross-product dependencies.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives focused on defect prevention, testing effectiveness, and operational excellence across the portfolio.
• Ensures alignment with Cat Digital operating models, quality standards, and best practices while influencing adoption across teams.
• Communicates quality risks, status, trends, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at all levels, enabling proactive decision making.

Principal Digital Quality Manager, Cat Foresight

Communications

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and advise on the suitability of approaches for communication efforts.
• Track and analyze metrics to measure the effectiveness of internal communications.
• Assist in the planning and creation of content for employee communication channels; ensuring that messaging and branding are consistent across all channels.
• Develop and distribute communications materials, such as written communications, presentation materials, etc. to deliver key messages.

Corporate Intern – Communications

Learning and Development

• Counsel the business on employee and/or labor relations challenges to ensure high-performing teams and an inclusive environment.
• Deploy recruitment solutions to increase the diversity of workforce composition.
• Identify talent and create visibility and awareness to enable a cross-functional talent pipeline for the enterprise.
• Comprehensive HR data analysis to identify insights to make better decisions and drive efficiencies for the business.

Human Resources Professional Development Program

IT Support

• Create detailed negotiation strategies, including points of leverage, identification of all deal variables, and development of appropriate counteroffers.
• Working with 3rd party advisory firms to enhance Caterpillar’s market intelligence and negotiation strategies.
• Advise internal customers on the negotiation plan and gain alignment on strategy, timing, and process steps.
• Negotiate directly with Caterpillar’s technology suppliers to minimize risk and maximize value for the acquisition of SaaS, software, hardware, telecommunications, cloud, and related professional services.
• Provide thought leadership and sourcing subject matter expertise to internal IT/Business customers and matrix partners.
• Engage with internal customers and suppliers to support resolution of varying complexity disputes, and other matters requiring a balance of assertiveness, tact, business acumen, and diplomacy.
• Partner with finance to analyze deal financials and impact to annual budget processes.
• Achieve annual savings targets and other performance metrics as assigned.
• Partner with internal matrix partners such as finance, procurement, legal, etc. on negotiations and continuous process improvement.
• Establish a forward-looking demand for contract renewals and net new initiatives.
• Develop and administer frequent communications and discussions to maintain awareness and monitor progress for such demand.
• Conduct Supplier spend analysis on a regular basis to identify opportunities across our suppliers and organization.

Vendor Management Specialist – IT Negotiator

Data Engineer

• Design, document, deploy, and manage Data Center Network solutions through all phases of lifecycle management for Cisco ACI & Nexus equipment and Radware Load Balancers deployed at enterprise hosting locations and local facilities.
• Support infrastructure and deployment projects across multiple regions and locations.
• Partner with hardware, software, and vendor teams on the development of data center solutions.
• Provide project participation, advice, and counsel to IT personnel, management, and project teams on various aspects of enterprise Data Center Network hardware and software.
• Establish and implement global security and operational best practices and adhere to IT Controls.
• Adhere to IT Service Management processes, instruction, and procedural documentation.
• Work with application support teams/customer/operations management to develop plans to minimize the technical and/or business impact of network environment changes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the global datacenter network infrastructure 24x7.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex problems within the enterprise Data Center networks.

Senior Data Center Network Engineer

Supply Chain

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• Supply Chain: Analyzes and maintains assigned processes that produce output excellence, builds expertise for the assigned process area, and contributing to continuous improvement efforts.
• Logistics: Continuous improvements for logistics processes to maximize efficiency and productivity, evaluating logistics processes and workflows, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions for process-related concerns.
• Planning, Demand, & Orders: Participates in analyses to support businesses, determine sales and product demand supporting the sales and operations process, ensures availability of inventory for assigned products.

Summer Corporate Intern – Supply Chain

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• Responsible and accountable for enhancements and modifications to equipment and processes in our facilities, monitoring equipment and process reliability.
• Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.
• Collecting and researching data on customer experience with robotic platforms.