The Lead Software Engineer will oversee complex projects in software development, focusing on emerging technologies and generative AI. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, resolving technical challenges, collaborating on system architecture, and ensuring high software quality. The role requires leadership in product creation processes, project management, and the application of advanced programming skills in a dynamic environment.
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.
JOB DUTIES: Responsibilities of the incumbents are across functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development and/or evaluation new technology, pattern for our state-of-the-art digital platform. This individual will also work collaboratively with other architecture and engineering teams to ensure cross-functional goals are met.
- Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
- Lead role in complex projects spanning across multiple system components.
- Work in all phases of product creation process including creating technical requirements, project planning, identifying dependencies, system architecture and development.
- Apply knowledge and skills to solve most complex engineering problems.
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features.
- Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed.
- Maintains high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits.
- Demonstrated leadership on medium to large-scale projects impacting strategic priorities.
- Ability to cope with shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to effectively prioritize, delegate responsibilities and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Basic qualifications:
- Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 8+ years of experience in designing and developing software applications in java and python including experience with microservices (spring boot and/or Flask)
- 5+ years of experience building AWS production grade software.
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience working on emerging technologies.
Top candidates will also have:
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional (and/or) AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty.
- Ability to translate an innovative idea into a POC/POT and pilot/ reference production deployment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for exploring and experimenting with new technologies and frameworks.
- Extensive experience with multiple AWS products (ECS, KDA, Kinesis, OpenSearch, Dynamo, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, etc...)
- Proven experience in Data engineering (Batch, Streaming) and API development frameworks.
- Strong experience in ML model deployments, AWS SageMaker Studio, GenAI Models, LLM vector stores, LLM observability etc.
- Hands-on experience of machine learning methodologies including advanced analytics tools (such as R and Python) along with applied mathematics, ML and Deep Learning frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras) and ML techniques.
- Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
- Strong expertise in generative AI techniques for summarization, Chatbot and data embedding using AWS, Microsoft Azure Open AI and other open source LLM models.
Posting Dates:
January 28, 2025 - February 3, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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Top Skills
Java
Python
Caterpillar Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
Chennai, India
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