7 months ago
Clarksburg, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate and deploy the autonomy stack on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate it in real-world conditions.
- Deliver new autonomous behaviors, payload integrations, and mission use cases in collaboration with users and stakeholders.
- Optimize end-to-end autonomous vehicle performance across sensing, compute, controls, and related subsystems.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, and drive issues to resolution with engineering teams.
- Improve the core autonomy stack by identifying performance shortfalls and implementing software enhancements.
- Translate customer requirements into autonomy capabilities in partnership with business development and engineering teams.
- Travel 10–25% or 25–50% depending on candidate preference and role placement, and commute to Arlington, Virginia as needed.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, robotics, or a related field, or relevant experience/show of skill.
- Experience integrating software on hardware products.
- Strong programming skills in C++, Python, or Java.
- Strong software engineering skills in software design, unit testing, and debugging.
- Ability to deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
- Understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
- Demonstrated clean, maintainable code and documentation practices.
- Experience working in teams and proactively solving problems.
- Preferred: software development experience for robotics and autonomous systems.
- Preferred: experience with safety-critical systems such as MIL-STD-882, ISO-26262, or DO-178.
- Preferred: experience with ROS2, state machines, motion or path planning, navigation, mapping algorithms, robot perception, real-time operating systems, or embedded programming.
- Preferred: leadership experience on cross-functional software teams.
- This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Benefits
- Premium healthcare benefits with three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of premiums for employees and dependents.
- Company-paid basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance, with additional life insurance available for purchase.
- Generous company holiday calendar, including a December winter break.
- 20 days of accrued paid time off per year.
- At least 7 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption.
- $9,000 annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- 401(k) plan with traditional, Roth, and after-tax deferral options and company matching up to 4%.
- Full-time role with travel of 10–25% or 25–50% depending on placement and required Arlington, Virginia commuting as needed.
