7 months ago
Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $165k/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 end-users and stakeholders.
- Optimize autonomous vehicle performance across sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems.
- Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and drive corrective actions with engineering teams.
- Detect performance shortfalls and implement enhancements to the core autonomy stack.
- Translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities with business development and engineering teams.
- Travel 10–25% or 25–50% depending on candidate preference and role placement.
Requirements
- 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.
- Core software engineering skills in software design, unit testing, and debugging.
- Ability to deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and documentation.
- Preferred experience in robotics and autonomous systems software development.
- Preferred experience with ROS2, state machines, motion or path planning, navigation, mapping algorithms, robot perception, real-time operating systems, or embedded programming.
- Ability to commute to Arlington, Virginia as needed; the 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.
- Forterra-covered basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance, with optional additional life insurance.
- Company holiday calendar including a December winter break.
- 20 days of accrued paid time off per year.
- At least seven 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 employee benefits include equity in most high-demand roles.
- The role is based in or requires commuting to Arlington, VA as needed, includes 10–25% or 25–50% travel depending on placement, and may require U.S. security-clearance eligibility.
