Simulation Infrastructure Engineer

Caterpillar

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irving, TX
Salary
$112,710–$183,140 / yr
Posted
25 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 30, 2026

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Below market

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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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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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,470–$192,710 across 125 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Simulation Infrastructure Engineer

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.

What you'll do

  • Design and support simulation infrastructure across AWS, Azure, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
  • Build reusable infrastructure and platform automation using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Helm.
  • Create deployment patterns for simulation services, GPU workloads, NVIDIA Omniverse, and Unreal Engine.
  • Implement workload scheduling, resource allocation, and capacity management for CPU and GPU environments.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for simulation builds, tests, containers, and environment promotion.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting for simulation environments.
  • Build self-service tooling and reusable environment templates for simulation developers and test teams.
  • Document infrastructure architecture, operational procedures, and support expectations.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
  • Typically 5+ years of software, cloud, infrastructure, platform, or simulation engineering experience.
  • Strong experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, networking, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
  • Programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, C++, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
  • Experience building and operating distributed, cloud-native, or developer platform services.
  • Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or comparable automation tools.
  • Knowledge of GPU infrastructure, NVIDIA container tooling, GPU scheduling, HPC, Slurm, Ray, or distributed compute (preferred).
  • Experience deploying or supporting NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, robotics, AI, or simulation workloads (preferred).

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