Lead Architect - Digital Twin & AI Factory

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. 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.
Help Build the Future of Caterpillar
At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers' toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world-on real jobsites, at global scale.
You'll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations-over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily. These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.
Be Part of What's Next in Autonomous Construction Sites
Construction autonomy is one of the most complex challenges in applied AI, and at Caterpillar, advancements in physical AI, simulation, sensing, and edge computing are turning things that once felt impossible - intelligent machines operating in dynamic jobsites into reality.
Our connected ecosystem brings together massive volumes of high-quality data to create a foundation where engineers like you can build and deploy against.
If this work motivates you, we invite you to join our team. In these roles, you'll work at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. You'll help design and deliver intelligent systems that enable machines to perceive their environment, make informed decisions, and support safer, more productive operations.
Job Summary:
The Lead Architect - Digital Twin & AI Factory is responsible for designing and implementing the architecture solutions that enable simulation, digital twins, AI model development, and AI Factory operations. Working closely with principal architects, engineering teams, data scientists, and platform teams, this role translates architectural vision into detailed solution designs, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance that accelerate the development, training, fine-tuning, validation, and deployment of AI models. The architect plays a key role in defining how simulation environments, synthetic data pipelines, digital twin platforms, GPU infrastructure, and MLOps capabilities are integrated to create a scalable and efficient AI development ecosystem
In addition, this role is responsible for supporting the orchestration of AI Factory and simulation capabilities across the development lifecycle, ensuring that compute resources, data pipelines, model workflows, and simulation environments work together seamlessly to enable rapid experimentation, model improvement, and deployment. The position serves as a critical bridge between architecture and engineering, helping teams deliver robust, reusable, and scalable solutions that advance Physical AI, autonomy, and next-generation intelligent systems.
What You Will Do:

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
• Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.

What You Will Have:

• Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application 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 IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Digital Twin & Simulation Platforms: Experience designing and implementing digital twin and simulation environments used to model machines, operations, and real-world scenarios. Candidates should understand simulation architectures, synthetic data generation, scenario development, and the role simulation plays in training and validating Physical AI systems.
• AI Factory & GPU Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AI development platforms, GPU infrastructure, and large-scale AI workloads. Candidates should understand distributed training, model development workflows, compute orchestration, workload scheduling, storage architectures, and the operational aspects of AI Factories.
• NVIDIA Ecosystem & Physical AI Technologies: Experience with technologies such as NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA Isaac, DGX platforms, CUDA, TensorRT, NIMs, and related NVIDIA AI Factory technologies. Candidates should understand how these tools work together to support simulation, digital twins, AI development, and autonomy.
• MLOps, Model Training & Fine-Tuning: Strong understanding of model lifecycle management, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and governance. Experience implementing MLOps capabilities and supporting data scientists and AI engineers through repeatable, scalable workflows is highly desirable.
• Architecture Leadership & Solution Delivery: Proven ability to translate architectural strategy into practical implementation plans, guide engineering teams through complex technical decisions, establish reusable patterns and standards, and deliver solutions across multiple teams and technology domains.

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
• Relocation assistance is available for this position
• Visa sponsorship is available with this position.

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Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• 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

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Relocation is available for this position.
Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
Posting Dates:
June 9, 2026 - June 23, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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