Principal Digital Architect: Simulation & Robotics Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Career development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data to define the data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will shape data contracts, ensure reliable information flow from machines to enterprise platforms, and set standards for data exchange and metadata. You will collaborate with perception architects, data engineering, and platform teams to build data foundations that support AI model development, simulation, and real-world

Qualifications

• Data architecture knowledge and blueprints for data resources.
• Analytical thinking to diagnose problems and propose solutions.
• Platform architecture to design and deploy end-user interfaces.
• Requirements analysis to elicit and record functional needs.
• Target architecture to align IT blueprints with strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Design an application's technical infrastructure, including databases and languages.
• Define and maintain architecture for simulation, synthetic, and data environments.
• Establish data standards, governance, and data lineage across datasets.
• Design multimodal data architectures spanning sensor, video, telemetry.
• Ensure datasets are representative and reproducible for AI model development.
• Create scalable data patterns for robotics training and AI initiatives.
• Define metadata, labeling, versioning, and lifecycle management for training data.
• Partner with Simulation and Robotics teams to align data capabilities with objectives.

Skills

Data architecture

AI data foundations

Physical AI

Architectural leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data to define the data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will shape data contracts, ensure reliable information flow from machines to enterprise platforms, and set standards for data exchange and metadata. You will collaborate with perception architects, data engineering, and platform teams to build data foundations that support AI model development, simulation, and real-world