Principal Engineer, Agentic AI & Simulation Automation
Caterpillar2 days ago
Base Salary
$159k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define architectures and build agents for multi-agent simulation and engineering workflows.
- Lead map-to-simulation, site-to-simulation, scenario-generation, and experiment-planning automation.
- Apply foundation models and multimodal AI to simulation configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, analysis, and reporting.
- Establish tool calling, workflow state, memory, approvals, guardrails, observability, auditability, and evaluation frameworks.
- Integrate AI services with simulation, robotics, databases, knowledge systems, and cloud platforms.
- Deploy and scale GPU inference and agent workloads on CoreWeave and Kubernetes.
- Own a major technical capability across multiple teams and programs.
- Translate ambiguous engineering and business problems into scalable, secure, maintainable production software.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical investigations, design decisions, and engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers and support technical hiring and onboarding.
Requirements
- Seven or more years of software development experience and three or more years developing ML, generative AI, or intelligent automation systems.
- Advanced Python experience and experience with one or more of C++, C#, Java, Go, or Node.js.
- Strong experience with APIs, distributed systems, event-driven workflows, backend services, containers, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
- Production experience taking agentic AI, generative AI, or intelligent automation capabilities from prototype through production.
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs, semantic data models, structured outputs, and multimodal models.
- Experience with NVIDIA NIM, NeMo, Nemotron, or comparable foundation-model and inference ecosystems.
- Experience with NVIDIA Cosmos or comparable world foundation models for Physical AI and simulation augmentation.
- Experience connecting AI agents to NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, OpenUSD, or comparable simulation, robotics, scientific computing, or engineering platforms.
- Working knowledge of Newton, physics simulation, and robotics workflows.
- Experience with AI evaluation datasets, test harnesses, security controls, observability, and human-in-the-loop governance.
- Experience deploying GPU inference with Docker, Kubernetes, NVIDIA GPUs, and CoreWeave or comparable GPU cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and technical delivery across multiple teams.
- Strong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to plan eligibility.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, HSA, and FSA options.
- Health lifestyle programs, employee assistance, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, disability benefits, and life insurance.
- Parental leave and adoption benefits.
- Full-time onsite work at the Irving, Texas office five days per week.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
Categories
AI ApplicationsRobotics
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.