Senior Data Scientist

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.
Your Impact 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.
CATERPILLAR REMANUFACTURING
Do you have a passion for helping customers and supporting a sustainable solution? Since 1973, Cat Reman has helped bring the value at the core of every Cat product back to life. Customers look to us to provide a high-quality solution that is good for their business - and promotes sustainability. It's important to us to deliver. Our team is full of industry leaders. Together, following common values, we share a passion for delivering sustainability benefits that help the company contribute to a circular economy. It's rewarding to work, with an inspiring team, where every contribution matters.
Job Summary
Caterpillar's Remanufacturing Division is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to support the Mossville, IL facility. This position will architect, implement, and maintain robust data platform infrastructure and services to empower data scientists to develop, test, and deploy models with maximum velocity. Focuses on abstracting underlying infrastructure complexities and conducting data science or engineering initiatives to validate platform functionality and support data-driven business decisions.
Degree Requirement:

• Degree or equivalent experience is desired.

What You Will Do:

• Directing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the rada platform infrastructure; creating scalable and resilient environments that allow data scientists to focus on data rather than underlying resources.
• Developing high-performance features and APIs using Python and FastAPI; providing the tooling necessary for seamless data science workflows and model serving.
• Executing end-to-end data science and engineering projects to validate platform capabilities; ensuring technical features align with practical research and production requirements through direct implementation.
• Leading the orchestration of workloads via Kubernetes and Linux-based systems; promoting efficiency through containerization and advanced resource management.
• Automating CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes for data projects; implementing "infrastructure as code" to ensure consistency across cloud environments.
• Ensuring the security, compliance, and monitoring of the platform; conducting regular system audits to maintain high availability and operational integrity.
• Partnering with data scientists to identify platform bottlenecks; identifying and implementing features that abstract infrastructure complexity to drive research impact.

What You Will Have:
Cloud and Container Orchestration: Knowledge of cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container management; ability to design and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Designs and implements auto-scaling, self-healing infrastructure.
• Manages complex networking, storage, and security policies within Kubernetes.
• Optimizes cloud spend and resource allocation for high-compute data workloads.
• Troubleshoots complex distributed system failures across Linux environments.

System Programming and API Development: Proficiency in Python and modern frameworks like FastAPI; ability to build performant, well-documented services.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Architects asynchronous, scalable APIs to support data ingestion and model inference.
• Implements robust error handling, logging, and telemetry across platform services.
• Optimizes Python code for performance-critical components of the data pipeline.
• Enforces strict typing and coding standards to ensure long-term maintainability.

DevOps and Automation: Knowledge of CI/CD tools and automation strategies; ability to treat infrastructure as software.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Builds and maintains automated pipelines for testing, building, and deploying ML models.
• Utilizes Terraform or similar tools to manage infrastructure state.
• Implements comprehensive monitoring and alerting for platform health.
• Drives the "Platform-as-a-Service" internal culture to reduce developer friction.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices for system reliability.
• Processes large quantities of configuration and infrastructure data with high levels of accuracy.
• Productively balances system performance with security and stability.

What You Will Get!
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of annual bonuses.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
All eligible candidates MUST pass the following pre-employment screenings before they can be hired to any Caterpillar position:
• Background Screening
• Drug & Alcohol Screening
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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
Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Summary Pay Range:
$112,710.00 - $183,140.00
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
Posting Dates:
February 9, 2026 - February 18, 2026
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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