Omniverse Platform Engineer
Caterpillar2 days ago
Base Salary
$113k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and support NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise services for digital twin and simulation engineering.
- Own Nucleus environments, authentication, access patterns, workspace organization, connectivity, monitoring, backup, and operational health.
- Develop USD asset pipelines for ingestion, conversion, validation, versioning, publishing, composition, and distribution.
- Build Omniverse Kit extensions, services, utilities, connectors, and automation using Python, C++, and supported SDKs.
- Develop deployment and execution patterns for Isaac Sim, Omniverse applications, headless workloads, containers, and shared GPU environments.
- Integrate Omniverse with CAD, PLM, asset repositories, scenario systems, simulation services, robotics frameworks, data sources, and visualization tools.
- Support Omniverse Farm and distributed rendering and simulation workflows, including scheduling, monitoring, results, and failure handling.
- Define reusable templates, APIs, SDKs, configuration patterns, and developer standards for Omniverse solutions.
- Implement automated build, test, packaging, artifact, deployment, and release workflows for extensions and platform components.
- Partner with rendering, digital twin, robotics, scenario framework, infrastructure, and QA teams to deliver integrated simulation capabilities.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across USD composition, assets, extensions, networking, GPU environments, and platform services.
- Document architecture, deployment patterns, development standards, interfaces, and support procedures.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, Nucleus, Universal Scene Description (USD), Kit, or related platform capabilities.
- Experience developing software in Python and C++, including reusable libraries, extensions, APIs, tools, and automation.
- Knowledge of USD composition, layers, references, variants, schemas, asset resolution, validation, and publishing workflows.
- Experience with Isaac Sim deployment, headless execution, containers, Omniverse Farm, GPU environments, or distributed workloads is preferred.
- Experience integrating Omniverse with CAD, PLM, rendering, robotics, simulation, or enterprise data systems.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and operational support.
- Understanding of computer graphics, physically based rendering, PhysX, simulation assets, sensors, and digital twin workloads is preferred.
- Experience creating developer tooling, SDKs, templates, connectors, and automated validation for asset and platform workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, extensions, assets, platform services, networks, and GPU infrastructure.
- Ability to collaborate with digital twin, robotics, rendering, platform, QA, and enterprise engineering teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Robotics, or a related discipline.
- Typically 5+ years of software or simulation platform experience, with direct Omniverse and USD experience strongly preferred.
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, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, adoption benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time position based onsite five days per 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.