Senior Principal Architect, Digital Twin

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Job Summary:
The Digital Twin & Simulation Architect will lead the strategy design and implementation of highfidelity digital twins forsystemsmachines job sites and endtoend workflows. This leader will translate product engineering and operations needs into scalable simulation architectures that improve product and job site efficiency.

What You Will Do:

• Establish Vision & Strategy: Work with senior management to define the longterm vision architecture and processes for simulation and digital twinning across products job sites and workflows.
• Roadmap Development: Partner with leadership to establish a multiyear simulation and digital twin roadmap ensuring alignment with business priorities product development cycles and customer needs.
• Translate Business Requirements Into Simulation Solutions:Interpret business and technical requirements identifying where simulations and digital twins can improve decisionmaking reduce validation time enhance customer value or derisk design choices.
• Develop Architecture & Technical Deliverables: Create detailed architecture deliverables including model design standards interoperability requirements data connections data annotations architecture and simulation workflows that support enterpriselevel problem solving.
• Define Supporting Technical Infrastructure: Determine the technologies platforms and integration patterns required to support simulation and digital twin capabilitiesincluding selection of annotation tools & methods modeling tools cloud/edge infrastructure data pipelines and validation/testing approaches.
• Evaluate & Deploy New Technologies:Lead the evaluation selection and deployment of emerging simulation tools modeling frameworks and enabling technologies that improve performance scalability or accuracy.
• Enable CrossFunctional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering autonomy controls software product teams and enterprise data groups to ensure simulation solutions meet business outcomes and integrate seamlessly with existing systems.
• Integrate Existing Simulations & Models: Assess current simulation assets across Caterpillar and define the strategy to integrate extend or consolidate them into a cohesive digital ecosystem.
• Ensure Scalable Validated Digital Twins: Oversee model validation correlation with physical test data and governance processes so digital twins remain accurate and trusted for engineering and customer decisionmaking.

What You Will Have:

• Design Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of simulation and digital twin design; ability to utilize methodologies tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Data Architecture: Knowledge of processes techniques and factors that affect data architecture data annotation and data pip-line; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
• Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design platforms and roadmaps to create digital twinning systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems in accordance with standards and processes.
• Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools methods and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
• Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or related discipline (Masters or PhD preferred) or equivalent experience.

• 10 years in simulation digital twin development robotics autonomy or systems engineeringwith direct experience deploying Omniversebased digital twins strongly preferred. Background in building or guiding complex modeling frameworks for heavy machinery robotics automotive aerospace or industrial systems.
• Strong expertise insystemlevel simulation and digital twin technologies. This includes but is not limited to multiphysics modeling data driven/statistic simulations discrete-events simulation and machine learning based simulation.
• Deep expertise inNVIDIA Omniversefor building industrialgrade digital twins including USDbased workflows realtime physics highfidelity rendering collaborative simulation pipelines and integration with external model sources.
• Experience architecting or integrating modeling ecosystems with tools such as CARLA Dynasty Simulink/Modelica AMESim ANSYS Adams GTSuite Unity/Unreal or robotics/automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of information architecture for simulation data including cloud/edge compute IoT data integration data annotation and labeling and realtime telemetry ingestion.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and strategically recommend adoption paths for simulation and digital twinning.
• Deep understanding ofsimulation architecture model governance verification/validation practices and integration of simulations with realtime data sources.

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate towork full-time at the Irving TX office (Dallas)
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is not available with this position.

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Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-related knowledge skills individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility terms and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical dental and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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