Simulation Orchestration Architect for Autonomous Systems

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Scenario Framework & Simulation Orchestration Lead to guide hands-on development of a reusable scenario framework for digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and verification.

You will own architecture, APIs, and orchestration patterns, ensuring scalable execution across local and cloud environments. The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, leadership of simulation or complex integration initiatives, and strong Python/C++ capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building simulation frameworks, orchestration systems, workflow engines, or distributed execution platforms.
• Hands‑on expertise in Python and C++, including API design, reusable libraries, debugging, and production‑quality software development.
• Experience with scenario generation, campaign execution, lifecycle management, configuration systems, and deterministic or repeatable simulation workflows.
• Knowledge of simulation architecture and integration with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, ROS2, Gazebo, CARLA, AirSim, or comparable technologies.
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs, schemas, contracts, workflow definitions, and extensible plugin architectures.
• Understanding of SIL, HIL, system integration, test automation, verification and validation, regression testing, and requirements traceability.
• Experience with distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, artifact management, and cloud or on‑premises execution environments.
• Knowledge of metrics, KPIs, evaluation pipelines, experiment tracking, scenario coverage, and automated result analysis.
• Experience with simulation packaging, versioning, release workflows, and dependency management.
• Ability to lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, and coordinate implementation across autonomy, controls, digital twin, platform, and QA teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, technical decision‑making, and system integration skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Software Engineering, or a related discipline; master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of a reusable scenario framework supporting digital twin, robotics, autonomy, controls, and verification use cases.
• Define scenario schemas, APIs, SDKs, contracts, configuration models, and extension points for scenario authoring and execution.
• Build orchestration services for single‑run simulations, parameter sweeps, campaign execution, parallel workloads, retries, lifecycle management, and results collection.
• Translate autonomy and system‑level test requirements into executable scenarios, reusable behaviors, measurable outcomes, and validation workflows.
• Integrate the scenario framework with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, ROS2, vehicle and machine models, sensor systems, and external simulation tools.
• Define developer workflows and tooling for creating, reviewing, debugging, versioning, packaging, and publishing scenarios.
• Partner with the platform team to deploy and operate scenario workloads across local, cloud, GPU, HPC, SIL, and HIL environments.
• Establish campaign engineering patterns for large‑scale execution, deterministic replay, experiment configuration, and reproducibility.
• Define evaluation interfaces for metrics, KPIs, pass/fail criteria, coverage, results comparison, and automated reporting.
• Support continuous integration of simulation by connecting scenario execution to build, test, artifact, and release workflows.
• Partner with QA and verification teams to build system‑level regression suites and trace scenarios to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and resolution of integration issues.
• Guide engineers delivering framework components and promote modular design, documentation, testability, and backward compatibility.
• Coordinate with principal engineers and architects on standards, governance, technology choices, and long‑term framework evolution.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies across scenario content, simulation runtimes, platform services, models, sensors, and test systems.

Skills

Python

C++

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Robotics/Software Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

Unreal Engine

ROS2

Gazebo

CARLA

AirSim

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Scenario Framework & Simulation Orchestration Lead to guide hands-on development of a reusable scenario framework for digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and verification.

You will own architecture, APIs, and orchestration patterns, ensuring scalable execution across local and cloud environments. The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, leadership of simulation or complex integration initiatives, and strong Python/C++ capabilities.