Principal Digital Architect: Simulation & Robotics Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data in Irving, TX to lead the data architecture that enables Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn, reason, and operate at scale. You will define data contracts and standards and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams.

You will shape how data is collected, stored, labeled, and consumed across training, validation, and testing, building multimodal pipelines for sensor, video,

Qualifications

• Knowledge of data architecture processes, techniques and design blueprints to integrate data resources for business use.
• Ability to analyze organizational problems and craft data-driven solutions.
• Experience designing processing mechanisms and roadmaps for enterprise applications.
• Skill in elicitating and recording required business functionality and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to align IT roadmaps with business strategies and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, including databases, 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 is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Simulation & Robotics Data in Irving, TX to lead the data architecture that enables Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn, reason, and operate at scale. You will define data contracts and standards and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams.

You will shape how data is collected, stored, labeled, and consumed across training, validation, and testing, building multimodal pipelines for sensor, video,