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Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Principal Site Deployment Engineer

Network Engineering & AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWuxi, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in communications, network engineering, computer science, automation, electronic engineering, surveying/GNSS, or a related field is required; a master's degree is preferred.
  • Substantial experience in industrial site systems, mining technology, network communications, positioning systems, or complex systems integration, typically including technical ownership of large-scale field deployments.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise and industrial networks, wireless coverage, IP architecture, network redundancy, monitoring, remote access, and field ICT infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with one or more of GNSS, RTK, NTRIP/VRS, coordinate systems, base-station deployment, and positioning-quality validation.
  • Ability to lead site surveys, architecture reviews, risk analyses, commissioning, and customer acceptance, and make authoritative decisions on complex technical issues.
  • Technical documentation skills, cross-team collaboration, customer communication, and English technical communication; ability to support necessary field travel.

Responsibilities

  • Define end-to-end reference architecture and deployment boundaries for autonomous sites, covering field networks, wireless communications, servers and edge computing, control rooms, positioning infrastructure, time synchronization, remote access, and interfaces with customer ICT.
  • Establish site-survey methods, data-collection requirements, risk registers, and site-readiness gates; evaluate how terrain, roads, obstructions, communications coverage, power, server rooms, cybersecurity, and operational processes affect deployment.
  • Define requirements for network capacity, coverage, redundancy, quality of service, roaming, backhaul links, and monitoring; assess the suitability of Wi-Fi, private networks, fiber, microwave, and other site communications options for autonomous operations.
  • Define deployment principles, coverage verification, benchmark-point management, failure modes, and acceptance criteria for RTK base stations, NTRIP/VRS, PBL, or other positioning augmentation solutions.
  • Work with the cybersecurity team to establish site segmentation, identity and permissions, remote support, logging, patching, backup and recovery, and customer-network access requirements, and ensure solutions meet product security baselines.
  • Establish infrastructure commissioning, coverage testing, performance validation, fault-injection, and acceptance criteria; support technical decisions and customer acceptance at critical sites.
  • Guide Regional Leads, MineStar, CI Autonomy, dealers, and customer engineering teams through deployment packages, drawings, checklists, training, and design reviews.
  • Capture cross-site differences, deployment issues, and best practices, and drive improvements to automated diagnostics, configuration templates, toolchains, and platform capabilities to improve deployment efficiency and scalability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with open-pit mines, autonomous vehicles, AHS, vehicle-road-cloud collaboration, or large industrial-site networks.
  • Experience with control rooms, edge computing, PTP/NTP, private LTE/5G, Wi-Fi mesh, or high-precision positioning infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with IEC 62443, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, or industrial cybersecurity practices.
  • Experience building global deployment standards, reference architectures, or dealer/partner enablement.

About the Company

Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Caterpillar makes construction and mining machines, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and locomotives for contractors, mines, energy companies and data center builders. It is the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and its yellow Cat bulldozers and excavators work in nearly every country. Customers buy or rent machines through independent Cat dealers, while its engines and turbines generate electricity and push natural gas through pipelines. Caterpillar earns money from equipment sales and from the parts and repairs that dealers supply over a machine's working life. It was formed in 1925 when California's Holt and Best tractor companies merged, and it is based in Irving, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Irving, TX
Founded
1925

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