Senior Edge AI Architect — Autonomy & Runtime

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Domestic travel

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Principal Edge Architect to own the compute, OS, driver, middleware, and runtime architecture for autonomy software on the NVIDIA Thor-based edge platform in Irving, TX. You will enable perception, robotics, data logging, diagnostics, and related services to run reliably at the edge.

You will work with Jetson Linux, CUDA, TensorRT, and Isaac, define resource strategies, monitor health, and collaborate with perception, safety, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with edge AI runtime platforms, embedded Linux systems, or robotics compute platforms.
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson IGX/AGX Thor ecosystem, Jetson Linux, CUDA, TensorRT, Isaac is a strong plus.
• Solid understanding of CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network, and compute resource management for real-time autonomy workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define the edge compute and runtime architecture for autonomy services running on the NVIDIA Jetson IGX/AGX Thor platform, including OS configuration, middleware, service startup, service lifecycle, runtime dependencies, and system integration.
• Leverage the NVIDIA Jetson software ecosystem to support GPU-accelerated inference, sensor data processing, model deployment, and runtime optimization.
• Define resource allocation strategy across perception, robotics, machine interface, data logging, diagnostics, and other services.

Skills

Edge AI runtime

Embedded Linux

NVIDIA Jetson

CUDA

TensorRT

Isaac

Middleware

Tools

Jetson Linux

TensorRT

Isaac SDK

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Principal Edge Architect to own the compute, OS, driver, middleware, and runtime architecture for autonomy software on the NVIDIA Thor-based edge platform in Irving, TX. You will enable perception, robotics, data logging, diagnostics, and related services to run reliably at the edge.

You will work with Jetson Linux, CUDA, TensorRT, and Isaac, define resource strategies, monitor health, and collaborate with perception, safety, cybersecurity, and operations teams.