Simulation Runtime Engineer
Caterpillar
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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$196,937 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $148k versus about $171k 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 131 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $128,470–$192,710 across 125 roles with salary data.
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The Simulation Infrastructure Engineer joins the Technology, Digital and Data team to design, build, and support compute and platform environments for simulation, digital twin, robotics, and autonomy workloads. This role involves creating reliable infrastructure for local development, shared environments, and large-scale simulation execution. Key responsibilities include implementing deployment patterns for GPU workloads, managing resource allocation, and developing CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will utilize AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, and scripting languages like Python, Go, C++, Bash, and PowerShell. Technical expertise in NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, and high-performance compute tools like Slurm or Ray is required. The work addresses complex challenges in construction autonomy by providing the underlying infrastructure for physical AI, sensing, and edge computing in dynamic jobsites.
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