Lead Digital Architect: Simulation & Robotics Data

Caterpillar Brazil; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data to define data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will set data contracts and standards, ensure data governance, and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams. Top candidates will have extensive data architecture expertise, domain modeling, and AI data foundations, with a leadership track record across engineering organizations.

Qualifications

• Progressive career in software engineering and architecture with a focus on data (typically 10 years+).
• Excellent communication skills and be able to mentor and persuade others on new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Design an application's technical infrastructure, such as databases and testing approaches.
• Define and maintain architecture for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
• Establish data standards, governance, lineage, and traceability across datasets.
• Design multimodal data architectures spanning sensor, video, image, telemetry, event, and robotics data.

Skills

Data Architecture

Platform Architecture

Requirements Analysis

Target Architecture

Analytical Thinking

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data to define data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will set data contracts and standards, ensure data governance, and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams. Top candidates will have extensive data architecture expertise, domain modeling, and AI data foundations, with a leadership track record across engineering organizations.