Principal Edge Architect - Software and Runtime
Caterpillar23 hours ago
Base Salary
$148k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define edge compute and runtime architecture for autonomy services on the NVIDIA Jetson IGX/AGX Thor platform.
- Specify operating system configuration, middleware, service startup and lifecycle, runtime dependencies, and system integration.
- Use the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem to support GPU-accelerated inference, sensor data processing, model deployment, and runtime optimization.
- Define CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and network resource allocation across autonomy-related services.
- Design runtime monitoring and health management, including process monitoring, resource checks, driver health, logging, fault detection, restart behavior, degraded operation, and field diagnostics.
- Coordinate across perception, robotics, machine platform, safety, cybersecurity, operations, and supplier teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience with edge AI runtime platforms, embedded Linux systems, or robotics compute platforms.
- Experience with the NVIDIA Jetson IGX/AGX Thor ecosystem, Jetson Linux, CUDA, TensorRT, and Isaac is a strong plus.
- Solid understanding of CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network, and compute resource management for real-time autonomy workloads.
- Experience with middleware, drivers, service orchestration, process monitoring, logging, diagnostics, software updates, and runtime health management on embedded or edge platforms.
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering, safety, cybersecurity, operations, and supplier 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, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, adoption benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time onsite work five days per week in Irving, Texas.
- Up to 25% domestic travel is required.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
About Caterpillar
For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. With 2024 sales and revenues of $64.8 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and provides financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.