Principal Digital Architect - AI- Data & Annotations

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

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.

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.

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.

The Principal Digital Architect for Physical AI Ready Data & Annotations is responsible for transforming enterprise data into reusable, governed, and consumable data products that accelerate simulation, training, and Physical AI. This role defines the operating model, architecture standards, and ownership framework for data products, ensuring they are discoverable, trusted, interoperable, and optimized for both human and machine consumption. The architect serves as the bridge between business domains, data engineering, and AI teams, enabling high-value data assets to be created once and consumed many times.

Bottom line, you are creating the data foundation that enables AI innovation at scale.

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Define the enterprise framework for Physical AI ready data products.
• Establish standards for data product design, metadata, discoverability, quality, lineage, security, and lifecycle management.
• Design reusable data objects and domain-oriented products that support Physical AI workloads.
• Define data contracts and consumption interfaces to ensure consistent and reliable access across the organization.
• Develop architecture standards for integrating labeling, annotation, curation, evaluation, and feedback processes…