Autonomous Simulation Runtime Engineer

Caterpillar Brazil; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 98,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar in Irving, TX is seeking a Simulation Runtime Engineer to develop and maintain core runtime components for simulation, digital twin, robotics, and autonomy workloads. You will work with senior engineers to deliver production-quality runtime services using C++ and Python, with integration to leading simulation tools.

The role requires 2+ years of software engineering, experience with Linux, Git, CI/CD, and familiarity with Unreal Engine, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, or similar

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• Typically 2+ years of software engineering experience; relevant academic, research, internship, or project experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain simulation runtime components, reusable libraries, services, tools, and integrations using C++ and Python.
• Implement features supporting simulation startup, configuration, lifecycle management, execution, shutdown, error handling, and results collection.
• Integrate runtime components with Unreal Engine, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, physics engines, scenario systems, and platform services.
• Create and maintain APIs, SDKs, configuration interfaces, command-line tools, and developer utilities.
• Support simulation packaging, dependency management, build systems, artifacts, automated deployment, and release workflows.
• Develop automated unit, integration, regression, and performance tests for runtime components.
• Profile and improve CPU, GPU, memory, startup, throughput, latency, and runtime stability.
• Troubleshoot software defects, integration failures, build issues, and performance problems under guidance from senior engineers.
• Work with scenario, rendering, digital twin, platform, and QA engineers to integrate and validate end-to-end simulation workflows.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, sprint planning, demonstrations, and technical documentation.
• Follow engineering standards for modularity, maintainability, version control, testing, security, and documentation.
• Contribute to developer tooling and workflow improvements that make simulation software easier to build, run, debug, and release.

Skills

C++

Python

C#

Java

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline

Tools

Unreal Engine

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

Unity

Gazebo

AirSim

CARLA

Job description

Caterpillar in Irving, TX is seeking a Simulation Runtime Engineer to develop and maintain core runtime components for simulation, digital twin, robotics, and autonomy workloads. You will work with senior engineers to deliver production-quality runtime services using C++ and Python, with integration to leading simulation tools.

The role requires 2+ years of software engineering, experience with Linux, Git, CI/CD, and familiarity with Unreal Engine, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, or similar