Caterpillar Inc.

Software Engineer

• Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
• Interns will have assignments that provide them with experience and significant learning opportunities.
• 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.
• You can focus on building technical abilities in roles including Product Design, Simulation/Performance Analysis, Test/Validation/Hands on, Controls Development, Electronic Components, Embedded Software Development, Software Validation/Verification for Electronic Systems, Engineering Data Analytics, Process Engineering.

Corporate Intern – Engineering

Product Manager

• Ensure service excellence through strong customer focus, data-driven decision making, and effective leadership of field service teams
• Establishing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.
• Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and customer experience during customer onboarding (deployment and training) for construction technology.
• Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are communicated back through the primary support channels.

Senior Product Support Manager

Compliance

• Develop and execute risk assessments of Customs and Trade compliance programs to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with in-region Business Divisions, Compliance teams, and Legal teams to provide strategic and operational support for global trade management at Caterpillar
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of Customs and Trade compliance policies and procedures
• Provide training on government laws, rules and regulations as they pertain to organizational products, services and technologies
• Proactively monitor, manage and mitigate risks through stakeholders, business partner engagement.
• Assist with development and implementation of compliance strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives
• Effectively communicate insights, progress, and recommendations across the organization as needed

Manager, Regional Trade Compliance

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, prototype, test, and deploy modern software applications, pilots, and reusable components using agile and iterative delivery methods.
• Actively explore, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies—including generative AI, LLM-powered workflows, AI-assisted development, automation, cloud services, and integration platforms—to solve practical business problems.
• Turn loosely defined ideas, customer needs, and technical opportunities into proofs of concept, pilots, and production-ready features that demonstrate measurable value.
• Apply engineering best practices for automated testing, security, observability, performance, maintainability, responsible AI usage, and operational readiness.
• Partner with product, architecture, data, security, operations, and business teams to identify high-impact use cases, define success criteria, communicate tradeoffs, and transition successful experiments into enterprise-ready solutions.
• Stay current with technology trends, share learnings through demos and documentation, and help raise the team’s capability by mentoring others and championing a culture of curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Senior Software Engineer

Support Engineer

• Provides self‑service support by testing and evaluating AI‑driven experiences.
• Analyzes live case and self‑service data, identifying opportunities for scalable self‑service solutions.
• Reviews AI performance, validates response accuracy.
• Partners cross‑functionally to convert repeat case drivers into effective self‑service and AI‑enabled resolutions.
• Tests, validates, and evaluates AI-powered self-service solutions for accuracy and quality.
• Analyzes case data and customer interactions to identify improvement areas.
• Collaborates with partners to convert case‑driven issues into self‑service content.
• Monitors and supports improvement of AI containment and customer experience indicators.
• Develops and maintains knowledge base and support documentation for AI training data.
• Gathers requirements and prioritizes automation initiatives.
• Benchmarks automation performance against industry standards.

Digital Operations Support Analyst – Self-Service, AI

• Design, develop, and maintain modern web applications and services.
• Build responsive user experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
• Develop backend APIs and services using Java Spring Boot, Node.js, or equivalent technologies.
• Participate in technical design discussions and solution architecture reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, QA Engineers, Architects, and other software engineers.
• Utilize AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Copilot CLI to accelerate software delivery.
• Contribute to automated testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, developer productivity, and software quality.

Electrical Engineer

• Provide direction for team members to develop and execute complex hybrid control systems including generators, inverters, and battery systems
• Ensure collaboration between departments and divisions working together to ensure a cohesive system is achieved on time
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to define and meet product requirements
• Provide guidance on long term strategy and direction for controls, inverters and battery energy storage systems
• Provide guidance and support for regulatory compliance and certification
• Research new methods for system and site control
• Develop functional requirements, design parameters, performance characteristics, and technical specifications of products and components that satisfy customer needs and advance safety, quality, velocity and cost
• Guiding the evolution of technical design, technical project planning, detail design, and development testing
• Monitoring, exploring, and testing new technologies, materials, and components to understand product or process improvement opportunities

Power Systems Controls Engineer – Electric Power

Data Scientist

• Possess knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to various situations.
• Oversee the acquisition and consumption of data from structured and unstructured sources, while ensuring quality and comprehensiveness of data for use in analyzing business activities, detecting patterns, and communicating trends.
• Demonstrate an ability to utilize various methods and techniques, including AI, to frame opportunities and conduct analyses that result in productive decisions.
• Develop predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and implement semantic data capabilities utilizing machine learning techniques.
• Lead data exploration and analytics projects and provide on-going coaching regarding visualizations, data mining, and analytic techniques.
• Demonstrate an ability to tell a story with data and create compelling ways to use data to drive actions.

Workforce Insights Specialist – Data Science

Producer

• Monitors and improves shop floor safety, aggressively eliminates unsafe processes
• Assures fixtures, tooling and processes are followed to meet production schedules
• Determines priorities and sequences jobs
• Schedules and prioritizes constrained resources, and adjusts staffing to meet flow and customer requirements
• Determines and executes disciplinary action when appropriate
• Procures and distributes production material to meet schedules
• Procures and distributes production material to meet schedules
• Ensures preventive maintenance is performed according to schedule
• Implements, Lean Manufacturing, 6 Sigma, Internal Certification and others
• Evaluates, assess, identifies and leads the deployment of workforce training
• Section Value Stream Mapping

Assembly Production Manager

Strategy

• Oversee multiple projects or workstreams, ensuring high-quality deliverables that are actionable, high impact, and lead to successful change on time
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, managing internal business partner expectations and relationships
• Support the Senior Director in executing the team’s vision and owning at least one internal program or process

Strategy Manager

General

• Capture, define, and prioritize unmet customer needs for remote control, task autonomy, and site autonomy based on customer value, business impact, and expected site outcomes.
• Support product development as the commercial owner by building and validating business cases, defining requirements, shaping business models and ensuring site technology solutions deliver intended customer outcomes.
• Lead customer validation and field learning through early learner and field-follow engagements, customer visits, and real-world performance feedback.
• Partner with commercial, Go-To-Market and development teams to align priorities, manage the construction remote control and autonomy roadmap, and support adoption and utilization growth.

Automation & Autonomy Technology Application Specialist

• Lead the execution of product strategies for quarry and small mine solutions
• Develop and manage multi-generational product plans aligned to business objectives
• Establish and manage product line priorities and manage investments
• Define, document, and prioritize market requirements, product capabilities, and features
• Analyze market conditions and competitive landscapes to inform strategy
• Define success metrics and track product performance against objectives
• Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication of strategy
• Collaborate with engineering teams to evolve product roadmaps and ensure execution

Team Lead

• Champion Product Quality for all Construction Autonomy NPI programs
• Drive Efficiency initiatives to reduce reliance on machines for Development and Validation efforts – specifically in the areas of AI-based product validation, virtual product development (VPD) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL).
• Lead NPI Product Quality swim lane activities including Validation planning and status reporting.
• Manage priorities for integration & validation team members – from setting major release strategy down to day-to-day coordination in daily huddles.
• Lead coordination of Defect / Issue management.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement through issue retrospectives.

Senior Autonomy Project Team Lead

• Provide technical leadership in design, development, testing and deployment of Caterpillar’s digital platform hosted on AWS.
• Build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.
• Design and develop backend RESTful API web services using Microservices architecture.
• Oversee and mentor other developers and handle code reviews.
• Act as team leader for development and support groups.
• Drive application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Lead development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams.

Lead Software Engineer

Sales Operations Manager

• Lead the development of worldwide supply plans by model, region, and month.
• Identify and implement alternative machine supply strategies.
• Oversee orderboard-managed products, machine scheduling, and dealer inventory health.
• Lead the development and execution of lane strategies, machine hierarchies, and product package structures.
• Drive inventory planning, startup initiatives, replenishment management, take-rate analysis, and phase-in/phase-out planning.
• Coordinate global production schedules with manufacturing facilities.
• Serve as the primary interface for forecasting and planning systems.
• Partner closely with Finance and Business Resources teams on revenue forecasting, inventory projections, and long-range business planning.
• Drive the development and continuous improvement of global S&OP processes.
• Own the end-to-end global S&OP process, ensuring alignment across teams.