Principal Digital Architect, AI-Ready Data & Annotations

Caterpillar

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irving, TX
Salary
$159,120–$258,570 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 29, 2026

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This role $209k
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This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $180,500–$258,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $219k for comparable roles.

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About Caterpillar

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 57 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Digital Architect, AI-Ready Data & Annotations

As a Principal Digital Architect - AI-Ready Data & Annotations, you will join the technology team to transform enterprise data into reusable, governed, and consumable products that accelerate simulation, training, and Physical AI. You will be responsible for defining architecture standards, operating models, and ownership frameworks to ensure data is discoverable and optimized for both human and machine consumption. Your daily work involves designing technical infrastructure, establishing metadata strategies, and developing requirements for labeling, annotation, and curation processes. To succeed, you must possess expertise in data architecture, platform architecture, and requirement analysis while demonstrating deep knowledge of AI model development, machine telemetry, sensor data, and edge-to-cloud architectures. You will solve complex problems in construction autonomy by building the foundational data infrastructure required to support intelligent machines operating in dynamic, real-world environments.

What you'll do

  • Define the enterprise framework for Physical AI ready data products.
  • Establish standards for data product design, metadata, quality, lineage, and security.
  • Design reusable data objects and domain-oriented products to support Physical AI workloads.
  • Define data contracts and consumption interfaces to ensure reliable access across the organization.
  • Develop architecture standards for integrating labeling, annotation, curation, and evaluation into data products.
  • Create technical infrastructure designs including databases, programming languages, and testing approaches.
  • Drive consistency across domains while enabling decentralized ownership and accountability.

What we're looking for

  • Knowledge of data architecture processes, techniques, and blueprint design for business process integration.
  • Ability to perform requirements analysis to elicit and record functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Proficiency in platform architecture to design processing mechanisms, roadmaps, and end-user interfaces.
  • Capability to develop target architectures that align IT blueprints with business strategies.
  • Experience designing cloud and on-premise data platforms for massive volumes, including streaming data and telemetry (preferred).
  • Deep understanding of AI/ML data foundations, including training sets, feature engineering, and synthetic data (preferred).
  • Knowledge of physical AI, industrial data ecosystems, digital twins, and edge-to-cloud architectures (preferred).
  • Progressive career in software engineering and architecture with a focus on data, typically (preferred).

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