Principal Data Architect, Simulation & Robotics Data

Caterpillar

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irving, TX
Salary
$147,760–$240,110 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 29, 2026

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Caterpillar Inc. is the world''s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Industry: Heavy Equipment & Manufacturing

Caterpillar currently has 105 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Data Architect, Simulation & Robotics Data

The Principal Data Architect - Simulation & Robotics Data joins the Technology, Digital and Data team to define the data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn and operate at scale. This role involves designing technical infrastructure, including specific databases and programming languages, to manage simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments. Key responsibilities include establishing data contracts, schemas, and governance for multimodal sources like sensor, video, telemetry, and robotics data. The architect must ensure datasets are representative for AI model development while creating scalable patterns for world-model development. Required competencies include data architecture, platform architecture, requirements analysis, and target architecture. The role solves complex problems in construction autonomy by integrating machine telemetry and digital twins into edge-to-cloud architectures for real-world operational data.

What you'll do

  • Define the data architecture for Physical AI and autonomous systems to enable learning and reasoning at scale.
  • Establish data contracts, standards, schemas, and naming conventions for reliable information flow from machine systems.
  • Design multimodal data architectures for sensor, video, image, telemetry, event, and robotics data sources.
  • Define and maintain architectures for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
  • Establish data governance, lineage, and traceability across training, validation, and testing datasets.
  • Create scalable data patterns for robotics training, world-model development, and Physical AI initiatives.
  • Define metadata, labeling, versioning, and lifecycle management strategies for AI training datasets.
  • Develop detailed architecture deliverables and roadmaps to solve complex business problems.

What we're looking for

  • Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems and design technical infrastructure including databases and programming languages.
  • Define and maintain architecture for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
  • Establish data standards, governance, lineage, and traceability across training, validation, and testing datasets.
  • Design multimodal data architectures spanning sensor, video, image, telemetry, event, and robotics data sources.
  • Define metadata, labeling, versioning, and lifecycle management strategies for AI training datasets.
  • Demonstrate ability to define enterprise data domains, canonical data models, and scalable architectures for AI and autonomy ecosystems (preferred).
  • Possess deep understanding of data requirements for AI model development, including training data, feature engineering, and synthetic data (preferred).
  • Maintain a progressive career in software engineering and architecture with a focus on data, typically (preferred).

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