Simulation Platform Engineering Lead
Caterpillar2 days ago
Base Salary
$128k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of core simulation platform and backend services for digital twin, robotics, autonomy, and verification workflows.
- Own simulation execution and lifecycle services, including job submission, configuration, scheduling, monitoring, results collection, and failure recovery.
- Define and implement APIs, SDKs, service contracts, and integration patterns for simulation tools and engineering applications.
- Design scalable cloud, on-premises, hybrid, distributed, Kubernetes, Docker, and GPU-enabled platform solutions.
- Build CI, automated testing, packaging, artifact management, deployment, release, observability, and developer productivity workflows.
- Support GPU-enabled and high-performance simulation workloads through resource scheduling, workload isolation, performance tuning, and reliable execution at scale.
- Integrate simulation frameworks with the broader platform ecosystem and coordinate delivery across scenario, digital twin, robotics, autonomy, controls, QA, product, and enterprise technology teams.
- Lead technical reviews, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, risk management, mentoring, and resolution of complex platform and integration issues.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience building simulation platforms, developer platforms, distributed systems, backend services, or cloud-native applications.
- Hands-on expertise with C++, Python, Go, Java, C#, or other relevant programming languages.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, software packaging, and release practices.
- Experience designing and implementing services across AWS, Azure, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
- Knowledge of simulation architecture, runtime services, workload orchestration, asset and configuration management, and system integration.
- Experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Unreal Engine, Gazebo, AirSim, CARLA, or comparable simulation technologies is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes GPU workloads, HPC environments, distributed execution, or large-scale engineering compute.
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, telemetry, observability, reliability, performance engineering, networking, and security practices.
- Experience creating reusable APIs, SDKs, tools, libraries, and services for internal engineering teams.
- Understanding of simulation verification and validation, automated regression testing, SIL, HIL, and continuous integration of simulation.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, coordinate implementation across teams, troubleshoot systems, and make technical decisions.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline; master's degree preferred.
- Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership of complex technical implementation and system integration.
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 are available subject to eligibility.
- Career development, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, adoption benefits, and tuition reimbursement are available subject to eligibility.
- The position is full-time and requires working onsite five days a week at the Irving, Texas office.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
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.