Simulation Platform Engineer: Cloud, GPU & Autonomy

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

HSA

FSAs

Career development

Bonus potential

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Simulation Infrastructure Engineer in Irving, TX to design, automate, and support the compute and platform environments for simulation, digital twin, robotics, and autonomy workloads.

The role blends software engineering with cloud, container, GPU, and operational expertise to create reliable infrastructure for local development, shared environments, and large-scale simulation execution. On-site required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of software, cloud, infrastructure, platform, or simulation engineering experience.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, networking, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience deploying or supporting simulation workloads and developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support simulation infrastructure across AWS, Azure, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Build reusable infrastructure and automation using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, scripting, and configuration management.
• Create deployment patterns for simulation services, GPU workloads, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, and related tools.
• Implement workload scheduling, resource allocation, queueing, isolation, retries, and capacity management across CPU and GPU environments.
• Support GPU and high-performance compute infrastructure, including drivers, container runtimes, resource visibility, scheduling, and performance troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for simulation builds, tests, containers, infrastructure, and release workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, auditability, and runbooks for simulation environments.
• Build self-service tooling and reusable environment templates for developers and test teams.
• Collaborate with runtime, scenario framework, rendering, digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and QA engineers to resolve deployment issues.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Networking

CI/CD

Infrastructure automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Argo CD

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

Unreal Engine

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Simulation Infrastructure Engineer in Irving, TX to design, automate, and support the compute and platform environments for simulation, digital twin, robotics, and autonomy workloads.

The role blends software engineering with cloud, container, GPU, and operational expertise to create reliable infrastructure for local development, shared environments, and large-scale simulation execution. On-site required.