Principal Digital Architect, Physical AI & Data Platform
Caterpillar
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This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $167,650–$257,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $212k for comparable roles.
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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 57 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $131,789–$192,710 across 56 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Digital Architect - Onboard & Site Data joins the team to define the data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn, reason, and operate at scale. This role is responsible for establishing data contracts, standardizing schemas, semantics, timestamps, units, identity, and metadata to ensure reliable information flow from machine and site systems into enterprise ingestion platforms. The architect will design technical infrastructure including databases and testing approaches while leading the evaluation of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities. Key responsibilities include defining requirements for sensor information, quality, latency, and versioning. The role requires expertise in data architecture, domain modeling, and AI/machine learning data foundations like training datasets and feature engineering. This position addresses the complex challenge of construction autonomy by managing machine telemetry, sensor data, digital twins, and edge-to-cloud architectures.
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