Senior Principal Architect Digital Twin

• Establish Vision & Strategy: Work with senior management to define the long-term vision architecture and processes for simulation and digital twinning across products job sites and workflows.
• Roadmap Development: Partner with leadership to establish a multi-year simulation and digital twin roadmap ensuring alignment with business priorities product development cycles and customer needs.
• Translate Business Requirements Into Simulation Solutions: Interpret business and technical requirements identifying where simulations and digital twins can improve decision-making reduce validation time enhance customer value or de-risk design choices.
• Develop Architecture & Technical Deliverables: Create detailed architecture deliverables including model design standards interoperability requirements data connections data annotations architecture and simulation workflows that support enterprise-level problem solving.
• Define Supporting Technical Infrastructure: Determine the technologies platforms and integration patterns required to support simulation and digital twin capabilities-including selection of annotation tools & methods modeling tools cloud/edge infrastructure data pipelines and validation/testing approaches.
• Evaluate & Deploy New Technologies: Lead the evaluation selection and deployment of emerging simulation tools modeling frameworks and enabling technologies that improve performance scalability or accuracy.
• Enable Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering autonomy controls software product teams and enterprise data groups to ensure simulation solutions meet business outcomes and integrate seamlessly with existing systems.
• Integrate Existing Simulations & Models: Assess current simulation assets across Caterpillar and define the strategy to integrate extend or consolidate them into a cohesive digital ecosystem.
• Ensure Scalable Validated Digital Twins: Oversee model validation correlation with physical test data and governance processes so digital twins remain accurate and trusted for engineering and customer decision-making.

• Design Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of simulation and digital twin design; ability to utilize methodologies tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Data Architecture: Knowledge of processes techniques and factors that affect data architecture data annotation and data pip-line; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
• Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design platforms and roadmaps to create digital twinning systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems in accordance with standards and processes.
• Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools methods and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
• Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or related discipline (Master's or PhD preferred) or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years in simulation digital twin development robotics autonomy or systems engineering-with direct experience deploying Omniverse-based digital twins strongly preferred. Background in building or guiding complex modeling frameworks for heavy machinery robotics automotive aerospace or industrial systems.
• Strong expertise in system-level simulation and digital twin technologies. This includes but is not limited to multi-physics modeling data driven/statistic simulations discrete-events simulation and machine learning based simulation.
• Deep expertise in NVIDIA Omniverse for building industrial-grade digital twins including USD-based workflows real-time physics high-fidelity rendering collaborative simulation pipelines and integration with external model sources.
• Experience architecting or integrating modeling ecosystems with tools such as CARLA Dynasty Simulink/Modelica AMESim ANSYS Adams GT-Suite Unity/Unreal or robotics/automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of information architecture for simulation data including cloud/edge compute IoT data integration data annotation and labeling and real-time telemetry ingestion.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and strategically recommend adoption paths for simulation and digital twinning.
• Deep understanding of simulation architecture model governance verification/validation practices and integration of simulations with real-time data sources.

• This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Irving TX office (Dallas)
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is not available with this position.

• Medical dental and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

What We Do

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc. responsible for bringing digital capabilities to our world-famous yellow iron. With over 1.5M connected assets worldwide our teams use data technology advanced analytics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.

Why Work With Us

The Cat Digital team is at the forefront of Caterpillar’s evolution. We take pride in solving complex problems by building new systems from the ground up. On our team you’ll leverage data from across our entire enterprise to find solutions that open a new world of possibilities for our customers and dealers. Join us in building a better tomorrow.

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