4 months ago
Clarksburg, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate and deploy software payloads on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate them in real-world conditions.
- Work with users and stakeholders to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging mission use cases.
- Optimize autonomous vehicle performance by analyzing interactions among sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems.
- Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve problems.
- Translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities with business development and engineering teams.
- Develop production-quality software using sound design, testing, debugging, documentation, and code-maintenance practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, robotics, or a related field, or relevant experience and demonstrated skills.
- Experience integrating software on hardware systems, including sensors, effectors, and compute platforms.
- Strong programming skills in C or C++.
- Experience with vehicle networks and diagnostics, including CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, FlexRay, UDS, and J1939, plus logging and trace tools.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
- Ability to deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
- Experience working effectively on teams and proactively solving problems.
- Preferred experience with robotics and autonomous systems, open architectures, safety-critical systems, Python, Java, ROS2, state machines, motion or path planning, JIRA, navigation, mapping algorithms, robot perception, real-time operating systems, embedded programming, and cross-functional software leadership.
- The position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $120,000–$200,000, with equity included in most full-time high-demand roles.
- Three premium healthcare 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.
- Company holidays including a winter break in December and 20 accrued PTO days per year.
- At least 7 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption.
- Up to $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%.
- Travel is 10–25% or 25–50% depending on candidate preference and role placement, and the role requires commuting to Arlington, VA as needed.
About Forterra
Forterra builds autonomous mission systems for defense and industrial ground operations, including self-driving kits for land vehicles and coordinated robotic swarms. It develops mission-critical hardware and software for autonomy in GPS-denied and contested environments, supporting military logistics, convoying, and yard/drayage use cases. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Clarksburg, Maryland, the privately held company serves U.S. and allied government programs alongside commercial fleet operators.