Principal Digital Architect, Simulation & Robotics Data

Caterpillar

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

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Below market

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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

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

The Principal Digital Architect - Simulation & Robotics Data joins the technology 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, standards, schemas, and metadata for information flowing from machine and site systems into enterprise platforms. The architect will design multimodal architectures for sensor, video, image, telemetry, and robotics data while managing lifecycle strategies for training, validation, and testing datasets. Key responsibilities include developing technical infrastructure, defining governance, and creating scalable patterns for world-model development. Required expertise includes data architecture, platform architecture, requirements analysis, and target architecture. The role addresses the complex challenge of construction autonomy by building a foundation for machines to perceive environments and make informed decisions using edge computing and high-volume real-world data.

What you'll do

  • Define data architecture for Physical AI and autonomous systems to enable learning and operation at scale.
  • Establish data contracts, schemas, naming conventions, and metadata standards for information flow from machine systems.
  • Design technical infrastructure including specific databases, programming languages, and testing approaches for applications.
  • Create and maintain architectures for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
  • Develop multimodal data architectures integrating sensor, video, image, telemetry, and robotics data sources.
  • Establish governance, lineage, and traceability standards across training, validation, and testing datasets.
  • Define metadata, labeling, versioning, and lifecycle management strategies for AI training datasets.
  • Create scalable data patterns to support robotics training and world-model development.

What we're looking for

  • Design data architecture for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
  • Establish standards for data governance, lineage, traceability, metadata, and lifecycle management for AI training datasets.
  • Design multimodal data architectures spanning sensor, video, image, telemetry, event, and robotics data sources.
  • Develop technical infrastructure including specific databases, programming languages, and testing approaches.
  • Perform requirements analysis to elicit and record business functionality and non-functional requirements.
  • Demonstrate ability to define enterprise data domains, canonical models, and scalable architectures for AI ecosystems (preferred).
  • Possess deep understanding of AI model development requirements including training data, fine-tuning, and synthetic data (preferred).
  • Experience in physical AI, industrial data ecosystems, and edge-to-cloud architectures (preferred).
  • Progressive career in software engineering and architecture with a focus on data, typically (preferred).

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