Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

We’re looking for an AI/ML Solution Architect to lead the design of AI enabled applications and platforms, with a strong emphasis on generative AI (LLMs, RAG, agents) and modern solution architecture. This role blends hands on technical expertise with strategic design leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and intelligent enterprise solutions.

This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about emerging AI capabilities and can translate them into practical, production ready architecture.

What You’ll Do

• Design and architect AI powered and GenAI enabled applications and services.
• Define solution patterns for LLMs, SLMs, embeddings, vector search, RAG pipelines, and AI agents.
• Guide teams on selecting and integrating AI components and cloud native services.
• Establish secure, scalable, and responsible AI architecture standards.
• Embed ML/GenAI features into enterprise applications and operational systems.
• Support MLOps/LLMOps workflows including deployment, monitoring, governance, and prompt management.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Cybersecurity teams to deliver high quality solutions.
• Influence AI strategy and help drive enterprise AI adoption.
• Architect end to end data flows supporting AI/ML workloads, ensuring high quality data ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval across structured, semi structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Ensure AI system designs align with enterprise data models, data governance policies, data retention standards, and lineage requirements.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, with strong background in solution or software architecture.
• Hands on experience integrating machine learning and/or generative AI into real world applications.
• Familiarity with LLM frameworks and tools (e.g., LangChain, Hugging Face, Semantic Kernel, vector databases).
• Knowledge of cloud native architecture, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of RAG workflows, embeddings, model integration, and AI safety patterns.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, model lifecycle management, and production AI systems.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong foundational knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), metadata management, master data management (MDM), and data integration patterns.
• Experience designing and optimizing data platforms such as data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and real time data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of various data formats (tabular, time series, geospatial, image, text, sensor/IoT, transactional) and how they are leveraged in AI/ML workloads.
• Ability to evaluate dataset quality, data drift, feature quality, and bias to support robust model development.
• Solid grasp of applied mathematics and statistics (e.g., probability, distributions, linear algebra, optimization basics, error metrics) sufficient to collaborate effectively with data scientists and understand model behavior.
• Familiarity with feature engineering concepts, feature stores, and data preprocessing methodologies.

Key Skills

• AI/ML & Generative AI solution design
• LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, RAG
• Cloud native architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Microservices, APIs, distributed systems
• Secure architecture & responsible AI principles
• Strong communication & leadership
• Data architecture & data engineering fundamentals
• Understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT, and pipeline orchestration tools
• Applied statistical reasoning and ability to interpret ML model outputs alongside data scientists

Why This Role Matters

As an AI/ML Solution Architect, you’ll shape the next generation of AI enabled capabilities—helping teams deliver smarter, faster, and more adaptive solutions. You will influence enterprise AI strategy, guide technical direction, and ensure that every AI component introduced is secure, scalable, and built for long term success.

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)

• 401(k) savings plans

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

• Health Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Program

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

• Career Development

• Incentive bonus

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

       

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.     

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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