Robotics Platform Architect
Caterpillar3 days ago
Irving, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$128k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own assigned robotics platform capabilities from architectural vision through implementation, integration, validation, and deployment.
- Design middleware, runtime services, inter-process communication, developer frameworks, common services, APIs, interfaces, data flows, and reusable software components.
- Define integration patterns for perception, planning, controls, intelligent behaviors, and machine systems without owning those specialized domains.
- Develop onboard and edge execution solutions involving containerized workloads, accelerated compute, resource management, observability, lifecycle management, and real-time execution.
- Partner with engineering teams to resolve design issues, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure software conforms to platform architecture and interface contracts.
- Support simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, prototype-machine, and production-oriented validation environments.
- Create reference designs, technical documentation, implementation guidance, and reusable platform assets.
- Evaluate robotics platform technologies and contribute implementation feedback and emerging technology considerations to architecture roadmaps.
Requirements
- Knowledge of platform architecture, software and solution architecture, target architecture, requirements analysis, systems thinking, and technical collaboration.
- Experience developing or architecting robotics software platforms using ROS 2, DDS, messaging, middleware, runtime services, component lifecycle management, or comparable distributed robotics frameworks.
- Experience converting architectural concepts into implementable designs covering APIs, component boundaries, interfaces, data flows, deployment patterns, and reusable software architectures.
- Understanding of latency, concurrency, reliability, quality of service, fault handling, observability, resource utilization, and communication across distributed or real-time systems.
- Experience with Linux-based edge computing, containers, GPU or accelerated computing, resource management, and software deployment to embedded or robotic systems.
- Understanding of integration among perception, planning, controls, machine interfaces, AI and machine learning capabilities, and platform services in autonomous or robotic systems.
- Experience taking solutions from architectural vision through technical design, implementation, integration, validation, and deployment with engineering teams.
- Experience with C++ and/or Python, Linux, containers, automated testing, source control, and modern software engineering practices.
- Progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform architecture, preferably involving robotics, autonomous systems, embedded systems, or cyber-physical products.
- Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, heavy equipment, Physical AI, or another cyber-physical domain is highly desirable.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, provide implementation guidance, resolve cross-team issues, and influence adoption of technologies and platform patterns.
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, life insurance, parental leave, and adoption benefits.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- The position is full-time and requires working onsite at the Irving, Texas office five days a week.
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.