
Principal Digital Architect
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Chicago • Illinois • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $147,760 - $240,110 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide oversight for architecture assessment and design for infrastructure, information or integration domains that provide core capabilities for the enterprise.
- Lead Architecture design of end-to-end enterprise integrated systems that serves multiple business functions.
- Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data model and metadata structures for complex projects.
- Drive architecture and design patterns for various AI and ML related models, and services.
- Passion for applying state-of-the art AI algorithms to real-world problems.
- Stay up to date with the latest developments in AI and related fields, evaluate new developments and technologies for potential integration into existing and future architecture.
- Initiate and deliver technology evaluation and recommendations.
- Develop and maintain current, planned, and future state architecture blueprints.
- Lead in the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers and requirements that drive the future state architecture.
- Design and architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-wide AI initiatives, including model deployment, orchestration, and monitoring systems.
- Establish technical standards and frameworks for AI application development, including agent architectures, RAG pipelines, and multi-modal AI systems.
Requirements
- Four-year bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a Computer Science or Information Technology
- Expertise with modern techniques for Language Understanding, Computer Vision, and other Machine Learning and AI technologies
- In-depth understand and expertise in one or more of the following: massive real-time event and message processing, data lakes, Big Data transformations and analytics, complex e-commerce applications, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL, and NoSQL data modeling.
- Agile SDLC implementation in public cloud eco-system including environments management, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing production AI agent systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar orchestration tools
- Understanding of vector databases, embedding models, and semantic search architectures for RAG applications
- Knowledge of GPU compute infrastructure, model serving platforms (NVIDIA NIM, TensorFlow Serving, vLLM), and inference optimization techniques
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, fine-tuning approaches, and evaluation frameworks for LLM-based applications
- Knowledge of emerging AI frameworks including multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, and AI-powered workflow automation.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AI algorithmsMachine LearningLanguage UnderstandingComputer Visiondata modelingSQLNoSQLAgile SDLCprompt engineeringinference optimization
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizationalanalyticalproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information Technology