Data Specialist

Overview

Caterpillar's Aftermarket Parts Packaging team is seeking an AI & Digital Solutions Engineer to develop, maintain, and continuously improve AI-enabled tools and digital applications that support packaging engineering, acting as the team's hands-on technical owner.

What you'll do

• Serve as the technical expert and lead on implementing changes for Aftermarket Parts Packaging AI and digital tools.
• Work directly with packaging engineers, IT partners, data owners, and application owners to translate packaging requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Contribute to solution design, data preparation, integration, testing, user acceptance, deployment, and production support.
• Maintain, configure, update, and continuously improve deployed AI solutions.
• Implement approved changes to business rules, prompts, workflows, user interfaces, data mappings, reports, and integrations through agile delivery.
• Monitor performance, user feedback, recurring issues, data quality, and override patterns to identify improvements.
• Maintain documentation, test evidence, version history, and release records.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full-stack web applications and cloud-based solutions.
• Build application programming interfaces and backend services that use Snowflake and other enterprise data platforms.
• Develop applications, utilities, agents, workflows, and decision-support tools for Aftermarket Parts Packaging.
• Perform enhancements to existing packaging applications, including the Salesforce-based internal packaging application EPSA.
• Use secure development, automated testing, code review, version control, logging, monitoring, and release-management practices.
• Create AI-enabled applications, agents, search experiences, and engineering workflows using enterprise technologies.
• Translate packaging standards, calculations, business rules, processes, and expert knowledge into tested decision logic and maintainable digital solutions.
• Develop data pipelines, analytics, application programming interfaces, and integrations connecting Snowflake, packaging applications, Salesforce-based solutions, and other platforms.
• Include appropriate human review, exception handling, auditability, and rollback for higher-risk decisions and integrations.
• Follow enterprise requirements for architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, access management, change management, and production releases.

What you'll need

• Application development experience with React.js, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Python, including FastAPI or a similar framework.
• Web-based application programming interfaces and full-stack application architecture.
• Application security, automated testing, logging, monitoring, and production support.
• Microsoft Azure experience with Azure Functions, App Services, or similar services.
• Git, code review, continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Docker, release management, and rollback.
• Strong structured query language and cloud data-platform experience.
• Data modeling, transformation, quality validation, and integration.
• Large language model applications, retrieval-based artificial intelligence, prompts, agents, and search.
• Ability to combine business rules, enterprise data, artificial intelligence output, and human review.
• Application programming interface-based system integration and workflow automation.
• Experience enhancing and supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience working within formal security, change, release, and support processes.
• 5+ years of full-stack application development experience.
• 3+ years of cloud-based solution development experience.
• Experience developing applications against a modern cloud data platform; direct Snowflake experience is preferred.
• Experience building artificial intelligence-enabled applications or intelligent workflows.
• Experience supporting solutions from requirements and design through deployment and ongoing improvement.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake SQL, Snowpark Python, or Snowflake Cortex.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, LangChain, or LangGraph.
• Experience with Salesforce configuration or development, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, or Salesforce application programming interfaces.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform or Power BI.
• Experience supporting and continuously improving enterprise artificial intelligence solutions after launch.
• Knowledge of packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, aftermarket, or engineering processes.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Works onsite five days a week.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.