Principal Digital Architect: Simulation & Robotics Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

HSA

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. 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, standards, and interfaces, collaborating with perception, data engineering, and platform teams to build a robust data foundation for AI innovation. The role focuses on data patterns, metadata strategies, and scalable architectures spanning sensors, video, telemetry, and robotics data to support AI

Qualifications

• Data Architecture: knowledge of processes to integrate data resources for business processes.
• Analytical Thinking: ability to determine root causes and create solutions.
• Platform Architecture: design processing mechanisms and roadmaps for enterprise systems.
• Requirements Analysis: elicitation and recording of required business functionality.
• Target Architecture: develop IT blueprint aligning with strategy and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Define and maintain the architecture for simulation, synthetic, and scenario-based data environments.
• Establish data standards, governance, lineage, and traceability across training, validation, and testing datasets.
• Design multimodal data architectures spanning sensor, video, image, telemetry, event, and robotics data sources.
• Ensure datasets are representative, reproducible, and aligned to AI model development requirements.
• Create scalable data patterns supporting robotics training, world-model development, and Physical AI initiatives.
• Define metadata, labeling, versioning, and lifecycle management strategies for AI training datasets.
• Partner with Simulation and Robotics teams to align data capabilities with business and engineering objectives.

Skills

Data Architecture

Analytical Thinking

Platform Architecture

Requirements Analysis

Target Architecture

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. 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, standards, and interfaces, collaborating with perception, data engineering, and platform teams to build a robust data foundation for AI innovation. The role focuses on data patterns, metadata strategies, and scalable architectures spanning sensors, video, telemetry, and robotics data to support AI