Senior Edge Platform Architect – Autonomy & AI

Koitecc Solutions; Irving, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off plan

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Edge Platform Architect to own the architecture strategy for the edge platform powering machine autonomy.

You will lead the Physical AI - Edge Platform Architecture Team and define how the NVIDIA Thor-based compute platform, input/output interfaces, networking, runtime environment, storage, monitoring, diagnostics, and system resources come together to support perception, robotics, machine interface, data logging and transmission, and

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing edge compute platforms for autonomy, robotics, vehicle systems, 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

Analytical Thinking

Platform Architecture

Data Architecture

Effective Communications

Organizational Leadership

Tools

NVIDIA Thor

CUDA

TensorRT

GPU-accelerated inference

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Edge Platform Architect to own the architecture strategy for the edge platform powering machine autonomy.

You will lead the Physical AI - Edge Platform Architecture Team and define how the NVIDIA Thor-based compute platform, input/output interfaces, networking, runtime environment, storage, monitoring, diagnostics, and system resources come together to support perception, robotics, machine interface, data logging and transmission, and