Automation Engineer – HIL
Caterpillar — Bengaluru, Karnataka
₹3–7 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite · Apply by 9 Nov 2026
HireSetu listing reference e6e4b9 · employer requisition R0000402015 — confirm requirements below, then apply on the employer site.
Quick answer: A verification and validation job for robotic platforms in Bengaluru, onsite five days a week. Caterpillar asks for an engineering, computer science or materials science degree and states no experience bar, so early-career engineers are in scope.
From Caterpillar's job posting
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.
Role Definition
Assists in the design, definition, development, and test of the robotics software development; collaborates with senior engineers to ensure that internal and external clients' needs are met.
Responsibilities
- Collecting and researching data on customer experience with robotic platforms; preparing reports for management.
- Documenting architecture specifications, software design description, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures, and safety procedures.
- Utilizing appropriate tools to debug, test and maintain software and hardware systems of robotic tools; assisting in the verification and validation process.
- Participating in design and development of application software and algorithms for robotic platforms.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Degree required
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
The employer’s company overview, benefits, equal-opportunity statement and generic skills tables are left out here; they are on the original posting.
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Where the hours go
HIL means hardware in the loop: real controllers, simulated inputs, and a rig that has to behave like the machine. The work here is verification and validation for robotic platforms. That looks like writing test cases, running them against the platform, and chasing a failure through the software and the hardware until you can explain it.
Debug is named as its own skill next to verification and validation, and that split is the honest shape of the job. Some hours also go on reports about customer experience with robotic platforms for management.
Degree first, years second
The degree is the one hard filter in the text: an accredited Engineering, Computer Science or Materials Science curriculum. No years of experience are stated anywhere, and the skill descriptors sit mostly at working knowledge, with AI at basic understanding only. That reads as a role open to fresh graduates and engineers a year or two in who can already write code and test it.
Materials Science on the list tells you hardware and materials behaviour matter alongside application code, so a mechanical or mechatronics background holds up here.
Resume order
Put verification and validation work first and attach something you wrote yourself: a test plan, a set of test cases, a traceability sheet. Debugging comes next, with the story of what broke, how you located it and what you changed. Programming follows, and pick the language you can defend line by line.
Problem solving and technical troubleshooting each carry their own descriptor, so give both a concrete project example instead of a bullet that names the skill. AI sits at basic understanding, which is exactly where one course project belongs.
Paperwork is a real share of it
Architecture specifications, software design descriptions, verification plans, test cases, operating procedures and safety procedures all fall to this role. Robots bring safety procedures with them, and that is the part of the documentation worth treating as engineering rather than admin.
If you have a written sample from a college project or an internship, carry it. A clean test plan sitting next to a CV full of languages says more about how you work than another line of tool names.
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How to apply
- The Apply button opens this job on Caterpillar's careers site (careers.caterpillar.com).
- Applications close on 9 Nov 2026.
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