Autonomy Simulation Architect & Orchestration Lead

Caterpillar Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Scenario Framework & Simulation Orchestration Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for a reusable simulation framework that supports digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and verification use cases.

You will own architecture, APIs, and across‑team integration with major simulation platforms. The role requires extensive experience in Python/C++, distributed systems, and CI/CD, plus a track record of delivering scalable, testable simulation solutions across local

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building simulation frameworks, orchestration systems, workflow engines, test frameworks, or distributed execution platforms.
• Hands-on expertise in Python and C++, including API design, reusable libraries, debugging, and production-quality software development.
• Experience with scenario generation, campaign execution, lifecycle management, configuration systems, and deterministic or repeatable simulation workflows.
• Knowledge of simulation architecture and integration with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, ROS2, Gazebo, CARLA, AirSim, or comparable technologies.
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs, schemas, contracts, workflow definitions, and extensible plugin architectures.
• Understanding of SIL, HIL, system integration, test automation, verification and validation, regression testing, and requirements traceability.
• Experience with distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, artifact management, and cloud or on-premises execution environments.
• Knowledge of metrics, KPIs, evaluation pipelines, experiment tracking, scenario coverage, and automated result analysis.
• Experience with simulation packaging, versioning, release workflows, and dependency management.
• Ability to lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, and coordinate implementation across autonomy, controls, digital twin, platform, and QA teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, technical decision-making, and system integration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of a reusable scenario framework supporting digital twin, robotics, autonomy, controls, and verification use cases.
• Define scenario schemas, APIs, SDKs, contracts, configuration models, and extension points for scenario authoring and execution.
• Build orchestration services for single-run simulations, parameter sweeps, campaign execution, parallel workloads, retries, lifecycle management, and results collection.
• Translate autonomy and system‑level test requirements into executable scenarios, reusable behaviors, measurable outcomes, and validation workflows.
• Integrate the scenario framework with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, ROS2, vehicle and machine models, sensor systems, and external simulation tools.
• Define developer workflows and tooling for creating, reviewing, debugging, versioning, packaging, and publishing scenarios.
• Partner with the platform team to deploy and operate scenario workloads across local, cloud, GPU, HPC, SIL, and HIL environments.
• Establish campaign engineering patterns for large‑scale execution, deterministic replay, experiment configuration, and reproducibility.
• Define evaluation interfaces for metrics, KPIs, pass/fail criteria, coverage, results comparison, and automated reporting.
• Support continuous integration of simulation by connecting scenario execution to build, test, artifact, and release workflows.
• Partner with QA and verification teams to build system‑level regression suites and trace scenarios to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and resolution of integration issues.
• Guide engineers delivering framework components and promote modular design, documentation, testability, and backward compatibility.
• Coordinate with principal engineers and architects on standards, governance, technology choices, and long‑term framework evolution.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies across scenario content, simulation runtimes, platform services, models, sensors, and test systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

C++

API design

Scenario generation

Campaign execution

Lifecycle management

Configuration systems

Deterministic workflows

Simulation architecture

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

Unreal Engine

ROS2

Gazebo

CARLA

AirSim

APIs

SDKs

Schemas

Contracts

Plugins

SIL

HIL

CI/CD

Containers

Kubernetes

Artifact management

Cloud/on-prem

KPIs

Experiment tracking

Metrics

Packaging

Versioning

Release workflows

Dependency management

Team leadership

Cross-team coordination

Troubleshooting

Communication

Technical decision-making

System integration

Education

Experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Software Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

Unreal Engine

ROS2

Gazebo

CARLA

AirSim

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Scenario Framework & Simulation Orchestration Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for a reusable simulation framework that supports digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and verification use cases.

You will own architecture, APIs, and across‑team integration with major simulation platforms. The role requires extensive experience in Python/C++, distributed systems, and CI/CD, plus a track record of delivering scalable, testable simulation solutions across local