Caterpillar

Omniverse Platform Engineer

United States · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerCaterpillar
LocationUnited States
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted2 Oct 2026

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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 – Be Part of What's Next in Autonomous Construction Sites

At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers' toughest challenges. 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.

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Role Definition:

The Omniverse Platform Engineer will design, build, integrate, and support the NVIDIA Omniverse platform capabilities used by Caterpillar digital twin, robotics, sensor simulation, rendering, and autonomy teams.

The role will focus on enterprise platform services, Nucleus, USD workflows, Omniverse Farm, Kit extensions, Isaac Sim deployment, asset pipelines, automation, and integration with Caterpillar engineering systems.

Responsibilities:

Design, deploy, configure, and support NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise services for digital twin and simulation engineering.
Own Nucleus environments, authentication and access patterns, workspace organization, connectivity, monitoring, backup, and operational health.
Develop USD asset pipelines for ingestion, conversion, validation, versioning, publishing, composition, and distribution of machine, environment, and sensor assets.
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 or distributed rendering and simulation workflows, including job submission, scheduling, monitoring, results, and failure handling.
Define reusable templates, APIs, SDKs, configuration patterns, and developer standards for Omniverse-based 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.

Qualifications

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, CI/CD, artifact management, 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.

Additional Details:

This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
Visa sponsorship is available with this position.

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $183,140.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.

Posting Dates:

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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