Simulation Infrastructure Engineer
Caterpillar2 days ago
Base Salary
$113k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support simulation infrastructure across AWS, Azure, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Build reusable platform automation using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, scripting, and configuration management.
- Deploy and support 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 computing infrastructure, including drivers, container runtimes, resource visibility, scheduling, and performance troubleshooting.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for simulation builds, tests, containers, infrastructure, packaging, artifacts, and environment promotion.
- Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, auditability, and operational runbooks.
- Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, security, cost visibility, and recovery through automation.
- Build self-service tooling and reusable environment templates for simulation developers and test teams.
- Partner with runtime, scenario framework, rendering, digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and QA engineers to resolve deployment and integration issues.
- Support simulation packaging, artifact repositories, dependency management, release workflows, and reproducible environments.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident analysis, root-cause analysis, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Typically 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.
- Programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, C++, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
- Experience building and operating distributed, cloud-native, or developer platform services.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or comparable automation tools.
- Knowledge of GPU infrastructure, NVIDIA container tooling, GPU scheduling, HPC, Slurm, Ray, or distributed compute is strongly preferred.
- Experience deploying or supporting NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, robotics, AI, or simulation workloads is preferred.
- Knowledge of observability, reliability, performance engineering, software packaging, artifact management, container registries, security scanning, release management, and environment governance.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across application, container, operating system, network, storage, and infrastructure layers.
- Ability to collaborate across platform, simulation, digital twin, QA, security, and enterprise infrastructure teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, paid time off, 401(k) savings plans, HSA, FSAs, health lifestyle programs, employee assistance, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, adoption benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time onsite work five days per week at the Irving, Texas office.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
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About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.