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Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Autonomy Platform Cybersecurity Engineering Lead

Security Engineering & ArchitectureConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, automation, electronic engineering, or a related major.
  • At least 8 years of product security, software security, cloud and platform security, or cybersecurity engineering experience, including practical design, development, integration, and delivery of security capabilities for complex software platforms.
  • Experience with threat modeling, security testing, vulnerability management, and building security toolchains for development, with the ability to translate high-level security requirements into architecture, interfaces, code, configuration, tests, and actionable engineering tasks.
  • Familiarity with the security of application programming interfaces, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, Linux, cloud platforms, and edge systems.
  • Familiarity with identity and access management, public key infrastructure, certificate and key management, encrypted communications, secrets management, audit logging, and zero trust mechanisms.
  • Technical leadership and cross-team influence to drive security engineering implementation across multiple development teams, beyond architecture consulting, auditing, or compliance work.
  • Strong Chinese and English technical communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-regional development, security, and business teams.

Responsibilities

  • Translate company and system-level cybersecurity architectures, technical requirements, and security principles into executable product requirements, technical tasks, and acceptance criteria for backend and field systems.
  • Own detailed platform- and application-layer security design, including authentication, authorization, least privilege, keys and certificates, communications and data protection, secure configuration, and auditing; maintain traceability of security requirements through design, development, testing, release, and operations.
  • Drive security capability development and integration across backend applications, field systems, cloud and edge platforms, application programming interfaces, and microservices; implement shared security infrastructure and capabilities for identity and access management, public key infrastructure, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, secure communications, access control, and audit logging.
  • Build and continually improve the secure development lifecycle by embedding security activities into requirements, design, coding, testing, release, and maintenance; implement static code security analysis, open-source component analysis, secrets scanning, container and image scanning, software bills of materials, and continuous integration and continuous delivery security gates.
  • Conduct threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, critical asset identification, and trust-boundary analysis using suitable methodologies for products and platforms; convert identified risks into concrete engineering requirements and development tasks.
  • Organize static and dynamic application security testing and pre-release security functional validation; establish processes to discover, classify, assess, remediate, verify, and close security issues; support coordinated penetration testing and ensure findings are resolved through an engineering workflow.
  • Implement access control, sensitive data protection, data-use boundaries, and security auditing for data platforms; implement identity, permission, data access, tool invocation, approval, and audit controls for artificial intelligence platforms and agent applications.
  • Design mitigations for prompt injection, unauthorized tool calls, sensitive information disclosure, and uncontrolled automated actions; implement human confirmation, traceability, security monitoring, and human takeover for critical agent operations.
  • Drive secure configurations and engineering controls across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, Linux edge systems, and connectivity services; design deployable security solutions for weak mine-site networks, offline operation, and multi-vendor equipment environments.
  • Work with upstream cybersecurity architects to implement overall cybersecurity requirements and communicate engineering constraints, feasibility, and implementation risks; align with enterprise cybersecurity and platform teams and jointly manage security interfaces between vehicles and field systems with vehicle cybersecurity teams.
  • Provide cybersecurity engineering guidance and support on difficult issues to development teams; drive shared security components, common services, and reusable security capabilities to reduce duplicate implementations.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in industrial software, industrial Internet of Things, smart mining, autonomous-driving backend systems, digital twins, or remote-operations platforms.
  • Practical experience in Kubernetes and cloud-native security, edge-system security, or industrial cybersecurity.
  • Familiarity with IEC 62443, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or ISO 27001, including experience translating high-level requirements into engineering controls.
  • Experience in software supply-chain security, software bills of materials, open-source dependency governance, container and artifact security, or secure releases.
  • Practical experience in artificial intelligence or agent security, including tool-call permissions, data access controls, prompt-attack protections, or human-confirmation mechanisms.
  • CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GIAC, or a comparable professional certification.

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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