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 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 - $133,810.00

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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