Lead Architect - Digital Twin & AI Factory

** Career Area:*
* Technology, Digital and Data

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* Job Description:

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* ** Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.*
* When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

** Help Build the Future of Caterpillar*
* At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers' toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world-on real jobsites, at global scale.

You'll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations-over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily.  These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.

** Be Part of What's Next in Autonomous Construction Sites*
* Construction autonomy is one of the most complex challenges in applied AI, and at Caterpillar, advancements in physical AI, simulation, sensing, and edge computing are turning things that once felt impossible - intelligent machines operating in dynamic jobsites into reality.

Our connected ecosystem brings together massive volumes of high-quality data to create a foundation where engineers like you can build and deploy against.

If this work motivates you, we invite you to join our team. In these roles, you'll work at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. You'll help design and deliver intelligent systems that enable machines to perceive their environment, make informed decisions, and support safer, more productive operations.

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* Job Summary:

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** Lead Architect - Digital Twin & AI Factory
** is responsible for designing and implementing the architecture solutions that enable simulation, digital twins, AI model development, and AI Factory operations. Working closely with principal architects, engineering teams, data scientists, and platform teams, this role translates architectural vision into detailed solution designs, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance that accelerate the development, training, fine-tuning, validation, and deployment of AI models. The architect plays a key role in defining how simulation environments, synthetic data pipelines, digital twin platforms, GPU infrastructure, and MLOps capabilities are integrated to create a scalable and efficient AI development ecosystem

In addition, this role is responsible for supporting the orchestration of AI Factory and simulation capabilities across the development lifecycle, ensuring that compute resources, data pipelines, model workflows, and simulation environments work together seamlessly to enable rapid experimentation, model improvement, and deployment. The position serves as a critical bridge between architecture and engineering, helping teams deliver robust, reusable, and scalable solutions that advance Physical AI, autonomy, and next-generation intelligent systems.

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* What You Will Do:

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* + Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.

+ Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.

+ Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.

+ Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.

** What

You Will Have:

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** Analytical Thinking:
** Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

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** Platform Architecture:
** Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.

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** 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…