Senior Edge Platform Architect - Autonomous AI

ALPFA Baltimore Chapter; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Onsite five days a week

Job summary

Caterpillar seeks a Principal Edge Architect - Platform to shape the edge compute foundation for autonomous machinery. You will lead the Physical AI - Edge Platform Architecture Team, defining compute, I/O, networking, and data services for perception, robotics, and safety workloads at scale.

The role requires deep platform knowledge, experience with NVIDIA Thor and related tooling, and the ability to align diverse teams across product, safety, and operations for scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing edge compute platforms for autonomy, robotics, vehicle systems, industrial machines, or other real-time embedded applications.
• Deep understanding of GPU, CPU, memory, storage, networking, input/output interfaces, sensor data bandwidth, latency, power, thermal, reliability, and serviceability tradeoffs.
• Experience with NVIDIA edge AI platforms and software ecosystem, preferably including NVIDIA Thor, CUDA, TensorRT, GPU-accelerated inference, and hardware/software optimization.
• Strong system architecture judgment, with the ability to define scalable platform configurations across different machine types, sensor packages, autonomy functions, and deployment environments.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with perception, robotics, machine platform, simulation, validation, safety, cybersecurity, operations, suppliers, and product teams to align edge platform capability with real machine autonomy needs.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall edge platform architecture and roadmap for machine autonomy applications, including compute, input/output interfaces, networking, memory, storage, runtime environment, diagnostics, monitoring, data logging, and data transmission.
• Own key platform architecture decisions and tradeoffs across GPU, CPU, memory, storage, sensor bandwidth, network bandwidth, latency, power, thermal limits, reliability, serviceability, scalability, and cost.
• Lead architecture alignment across perception, robotics, machine platform, simulation, validation, safety, cybersecurity, operations, and product teams to ensure the edge platform supports end-to-end autonomy needs.
• Define standard edge platform configurations for different machine types, sensor packages, autonomy feature levels, and deployment environments, including platform expansion strategy.
• Identify platform capability gaps, technical risks, and future hardware or software needs, and drive recommendations for platform improvements, supplier engagement, upgrade paths, and long-term edge compute strategy.

Skills

Edge platform architecture

Perception robotics

Data architecture

Effective communications

Organizational leadership

Tools

NVIDIA Thor

CUDA

TensorRT

GPU-accelerated inference

Hardware/software optimization

Job description

Caterpillar seeks a Principal Edge Architect - Platform to shape the edge compute foundation for autonomous machinery. You will lead the Physical AI - Edge Platform Architecture Team, defining compute, I/O, networking, and data services for perception, robotics, and safety workloads at scale.

The role requires deep platform knowledge, experience with NVIDIA Thor and related tooling, and the ability to align diverse teams across product, safety, and operations for scalable deployments.