Principal Software Engineer - Simulation Data, Validation & Infrastructure
Caterpillar3 days ago
Base Salary
$148k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect machine-data and simulation-data ingestion, processing, curation, storage, and serving pipelines.
- Define data models connecting machines, digital twins, environments, scenarios, datasets, models, and results.
- Establish verification and validation frameworks, correlation methods, automated regression tests, and quality gates.
- Build synthetic-data generation, automatic annotation, dataset lineage, versioning, and reproducibility capabilities.
- Architect scalable NVIDIA GPU execution across CoreWeave, on-premises clusters, cloud, and HPC environments.
- Operate batch simulation, distributed training, inference, rendering, and synthetic-data workloads using Kubernetes.
- Define observability, security, workload scheduling, cost controls, resource quotas, and failure-recovery practices.
- Establish infrastructure as code and CI/CD for simulation services, models, datasets, and GPU workloads.
- Own a major technical capability across multiple teams and programs, lead architecture reviews and technical investigations, and establish engineering standards.
- Mentor senior and developing engineers and support technical hiring and onboarding.
- Partner across simulation, robotics, autonomy, controls, AI, data, cloud, product, and customer-facing organizations.
Requirements
- Advanced software engineering experience using Python and one or more of C++, C#, Java, Go, or Node.js.
- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, containers, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, and observability.
- Experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- 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.
- Deep experience with CoreWeave or comparable GPU cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, GPU operators, scheduling, and workload optimization.
- Experience supporting NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Newton, Cosmos, Replicator, training, inference, and synthetic-data workloads.
- Experience with CUDA-aware systems, multi-GPU execution, distributed workloads, job queues, autoscaling, and GPU utilization monitoring.
- Experience with telemetry, time-series, sensor, image, video, LiDAR, segmentation, depth, map, simulation ground-truth data, SQL, NoSQL, object storage, time-series databases, Kafka, Spark, Flink, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, secrets management, security controls, and reproducible environments.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, logging, tracing, cost monitoring, and service-level objectives.
- Knowledge of statistical validation, uncertainty, tolerance analysis, model correlation, and traceable acceptance criteria.
- Preferred experience includes seven or more years of software, data, platform, cloud, HPC, or infrastructure engineering experience and five or more years building production data pipelines or accelerated-computing platforms.
- Preferred experience includes large-scale machine telemetry, sensor, simulation, or Physical AI datasets and secure, reproducible GPU platforms for multiple engineering teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Health Lifestyle Programs, Employee Assistance Program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, disability benefits, and life insurance.
- Parental leave and adoption benefits.
- The candidate must be based in Irving, TX (Dallas), and domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkC#C++DockerGoGrafanaHelmJavaKubernetesNode.jsPrometheusPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.