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We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nSummary\nAt Caterpillar, technology has a purpose: to solve our customers' toughest challenges. Construction autonomy and Physical AI require trusted digital twins, high-fidelity simulation, scalable GPU computing, intelligent automation, and rigorous validation. This Principal Engineer role is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for architecture, critical implementation, engineering standards, cross-team alignment, and mentoring.\nRole Purpose\nLead the data, validation, and accelerated-computing foundation required to operate simulation at enterprise scale, connecting physical-machine evidence with virtual-machine behavior through reproducible pipelines and trusted infrastructure.\nWhat You Will Do\nArchitect machine-data and simulation-data ingestion, processing, curation, storage, and serving pipelines.\nDefine data models connecting machines, digital twins, environments, scenarios, datasets, models, and results.\nEstablish verification and validation frameworks, correlation methods, automated regression tests, and quality gates.\nBuild synthetic-data generation, automatic annotation, dataset lineage, versioning, and reproducibility capabilities.\nArchitect scalable NVIDIA GPU execution across CoreWeave, on-premises clusters, cloud, and HPC environments.\nOperate batch simulation, distributed training, inference, rendering, and synthetic-data workloads using Kubernetes.\nDefine observability, security, workload scheduling, cost controls, resource quotas, and failure-recovery practices.\nEstablish infrastructure as code and CI/CD for simulation services, models, datasets, and GPU workloads.\nPrincipal-Level Leadership Expectations\nOwn a major technical capability across multiple teams and programs.\nTranslate ambiguous business and engineering problems into scalable architectures and production software.\nLead architecture reviews, technical investigations, design decisions, and engineering standards.\nBalance research and prototyping with secure, maintainable, production-ready delivery.\nMentor senior and developing engineers and support technical hiring and onboarding.\nPartner across simulation, robotics, autonomy, controls, AI, data, cloud, product, and customer-facing organizations.\nRequired Skills and Experience\nAdvanced software engineering experience using Python and one or more of C++, C#, Java, Go, or Node.js.\nExperience with APIs, distributed systems, containers, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, and observability. Principal Engineer Job Description Page 3\nExperience with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.\nDemonstrated ability to lead architecture and technical delivery across multiple teams.\nStrong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor.\nDeep experience with CoreWeave or comparable GPU cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, GPU operators, scheduling, and workload optimization.\nExperience supporting NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Newton, Cosmos, Replicator, training, inference, and synthetic-data workloads.\nExperience with CUDA-aware systems, multi-GPU execution, distributed workloads, job queues, autoscaling, and GPU utilization monitoring.\nExperience with telemetry, time-series, sensor, image, video, LiDAR, segmentation, depth, map, and simulation ground-truth data.\nExperience with SQL, NoSQL, object storage, time-series databases, Kafka, Spark, Flink, or comparable technologies.\nExperience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, secrets management, security controls, and reproducible environments.\nExperience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, logging, tracing, cost monitoring, and service-level objectives.\nKnowledge of statistical validation, uncertainty, tolerance analysis, model correlation, and traceable acceptance criteria.\nTop Candidate / Preferred Experience\nSeven or more years of software, data, platform, cloud, HPC, or infrastructure engineering experience.\nFive or more years building production data pipelines or accelerated-computing platforms.\nExperience processing large-scale machine telemetry, sensor, simulation, or Physical AI datasets.\nExperience designing secure, reproducible GPU platforms for multiple engineering teams.\nPreferred Technology Stack\nCoreWeave | Kubernetes | NVIDIA GPUs | CUDA | Docker | Terraform | Helm | Omniverse | Isaac Sim | Newton | Replicator | Cosmos | Prometheus | Grafana\nSuccess Measures\nEstablish a clear reference architecture and technical roadmap for the capability area.\nDeliver reusable platform components and measurable engineering outcomes within the first 12 months.\nImprove quality, automation, scalability, and cross-team adoption while reducing duplicated solutions.\nDevelop technical depth across the broader engineering organization through mentoring and standards.\nADDITIONAL DETAILS\nThis position requires the candidate to be based in Irving, TX (Dallas)\nDomestic relocation assistance is available for this position.\nVisa sponsorship is available for this position\nSummary Pay Range:\n$147,760.00 - $240,110.00Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-relatedknowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. 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