Principal Digital Twin and Simulation Platform Engineer

Caterpillar; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar in Irving, TX seeks an experienced software architect to define and implement end-to-end digital twin and simulation architectures. You will build reusable software for machines, terrains, and sensors, and lead OpenUSD-based pipelines, NVIDIA Omniverse Kit extensions, and CAD/ GIS integrations.

The role requires leadership across teams, strong backend/frontend skills, and experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, OpenUSD, and GPU-accelerated simulation.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of backend software development and five or more years of frontend or visualization development.
• Strong API and backend architecture experience, including REST, GraphQL, event-driven interfaces, SQL, NoSQL, object storage, distributed systems, CI/CD and observability.
• Experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expertise with NVIDIA Omniverse, Omniverse Kit SDK, OpenUSD, RTX rendering, and SimReady asset concepts.
• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and integration of robotics simulation into digital twin environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end digital twin and simulation reference architecture.
• Build reusable software for machines, terrain, sites, sensors, behaviors, scenarios, and visualization.
• Lead OpenUSD-based asset and scene pipelines, including layers, references, payloads, variants, schemas, materials, and metadata.
• Develop NVIDIA Omniverse Kit extensions and integrate CAD, GIS, terrain, machine, sensor, and operational data.
• Establish APIs and data contracts across simulation, robotics, AI, controls, and enterprise platforms.
• Lead rendering, scene management, mapping, and physically based visualization capabilities.
• Define standards for fidelity, determinism, performance, interoperability, model versioning, and reuse.
• Enable containerized simulation workloads across local, on-premises, and CoreWeave GPU environments.
• Own a major technical capability across multiple teams and programs, leading architecture reviews and design decisions.
• Mentor senior and developing engineers, support technical hiring and onboarding, and partner across organizations.

Skills

Python

C++

TypeScript

React

REST APIs

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

NVIDIA Omniverse

Omniverse Kit SDK

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenUSD

Job description

Caterpillar in Irving, TX seeks an experienced software architect to define and implement end-to-end digital twin and simulation architectures. You will build reusable software for machines, terrains, and sensors, and lead OpenUSD-based pipelines, NVIDIA Omniverse Kit extensions, and CAD/ GIS integrations.

The role requires leadership across teams, strong backend/frontend skills, and experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, OpenUSD, and GPU-accelerated simulation.