6 months ago
Clarksburg, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop real-time path and motion-planning algorithms in C++ for multiple vehicle types and operating environments.
- Integrate planning software with perception, localization, controls, and platform interfaces on vehicles.
- Deploy, test, debug, and profile autonomy software on physical robotic and automotive platforms.
- Design messaging for synchronization, logging, and debugging across distributed systems.
- Own validation from simulation through hardware-in-the-loop and on-vehicle testing.
- Diagnose field-test issues involving sensing, actuation, latency, real-time constraints, and environmental variability.
- Collaborate with Perception, Controls, Platform, and Systems Engineering teams.
- Travel up to 20% for on-site vehicle integration and testing.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Strong background in path planning, motion planning, or related autonomy domains.
- Strong C++ programming skills in a Linux environment.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including system design, unit and integration testing, and debugging.
- Experience deploying or integrating software on physical robotic or automotive platforms.
- Ability to deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
- Clean, maintainable coding and documentation practices with a proactive, hands-on problem-solving approach.
- Preferred: experience with unmanned ground vehicles in outdoor environments, on-vehicle debugging, telemetry analysis, and real-time system profiling.
- Preferred: familiarity with ROS, ROS2, or similar robotics middleware; experience across perception-planning-controls interfaces; and expertise with CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or TensorRT.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $150,000–$180,000, 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 the employee and dependents.
- Forterra-paid basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance, with additional coverage available for purchase.
- Generous holiday calendar, including a December winter break, and 20 accrued PTO days per year.
- At least seven weeks of fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption.
- $9,000 annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- Stocked beverage refrigerators and Celsius beverages.
- 401(k) plan with traditional, Roth, and after-tax deferral options and company matching up to 4%.
- The position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
- Travel up to 20% for on-site vehicle integration and testing.
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.