About this role
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and DataJob 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 are seeking a motivated Associate AI Agent Developer to join our AI Enablement team. This role focuses on supporting the design, development, and deployment of AI driven agents using Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Snowflake Cortex, Dataiku, and cloud services such as Azure and AWS.
A key part of this role involves working with business partners to understand their challenges, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities where AI solutions can provide meaningful value.
Key Responsibilities
Business Collaboration & AI Opportunity Discovery
- Work with business stakeholders to learn their workflows and identify friction points.
- Assist in discovery sessions to highlight opportunities for AI assistants or related solutions.
- Help translate business needs into initial solution concepts or user stories.
- Support communication around AI capabilities and potential use cases.
AI Agent Development
- Assist in building AI agents and copilots using the team’s preferred tools and frameworks.
- Help develop conversational flows, prompts, business logic, and orchestrations.
- Support integration of solutions with data sources, APIs, and cloud-based services.
Power Platform Development
- Contribute to building simple apps, flows, or components.
- Participate in solution testing, documentation, and deployment activities.
Cloud Architecture & Integration Support
- Assist with integrating applications and services within cloud environments.
- Learn and apply best practices for security, reliability, and scalability.
- Support basic API and service integrations across enterprise platforms.
Monitoring & Optimization
- Help monitor usage and performance of AI and low code solutions.
- Participate in refining prompts, flows, and integrations based on feedback.
- Assist in troubleshooting and triaging issues.
Adoption, Awareness & Training
- Support awareness efforts to help teams understand available AI capabilities.
- Assist in driving organization wide adoption of AI agents and related solutions.
- Help create or deliver training materials, how to guides, or intro sessions.
- Partner with teams to encourage best practices and improve user confidence.
Team Collaboration
- Work closely with developers, analysts, architects, and business partners.
- Contribute to documentation, best practices, and repeatable patterns.
- Participate in learning sessions and internal knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a technology related field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or equivalent)
- 1–3 years of experience in any of the following:
- Power Platform tools
- Azure, AWS, or other cloud environments
- Conversational AI or similar technologies
- Basic understanding of APIs, integration concepts, or cloud fundamentals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to learn AI technologies, cloud platforms, Snowflake Cortex, Dataiku, and enterprise development practices.
- Good written and verbal communication skills and comfort working with business users.
Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Exposure to Copilot Studio, Snowflake Cortex, Dataiku, Power Fx, or scripting languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, C#).
- Visualization and basic data analysis and business statistics skills.
- Familiarity with cloud native functions or similar serverless tools.
- Experience building flows, bots, low code apps, or similar solutions.
- Understanding of prompt engineering, RAGs concepts or LLM based tools.
Soft Skills
- Curiosity and eagerness to learn AI and cloud technologies.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and take direction from senior team members.
- Strong attention to detail and willingness to grow technical depth.
- Comfort asking questions and proactively seeking guidance.
Summary Pay Range:
$89,210.00 - $133,810.00Compensation 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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Other facts
About Solar Turbines
Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines, with more than 16,000 units and over 3 billion operating hours in over 100 countries. Products from Solar Turbines play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world. Solar Turbines’ products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1,590 to 52,500 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts). Solar’s customers put the company’s products to work in many areas including production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar’s foundation is people and Solar’s culture is one where individual contributions are valued, diversity in the workplace is encouraged, and safety is emphasized in all aspects of the business. Solar Turbines, founded in 1927, is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team.
What you'll do
- The Associate AI Agent Developer will support the design, development, and deployment of AI-driven agents while collaborating with business partners to identify challenges and opportunities for AI solutions. Key responsibilities include AI agent development, Power Platform development, cloud architecture support, and driving awareness and adoption of AI capabilities.
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