Senior Payloads Software Engineer

About the role

Forterra is seeking a senior software engineer with a passion for autonomous this role you will design develop and field software solutions that enable intelligent behavior in robotics and automation technologies. You will directly support real-world missions across our fleet of ground vehicles operated by our national security customers around the world.

The ideal candidate has a strong software development background familiarity with robotics and autonomous systems and proven track record of collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers researchers and product managers to create robust and scalable software for complex systems.

What youll do

• Bring payloads into real operations: Integrate and deploy paylaods on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate it in real-world conditions.
• Build with users and stakeholders: Work across the organization and directly with end-users to deliver new behaviors payload integrations and emerging mission use-cases.
• Optimize the full system: Take a holistic view of autonomous vehicle behaviorhow sensing compute controls and other subsystems interactand drive overall performance improvements.
• Close the loop from test to deploy: Analyze test results identify issues and root causes and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution
• Connect product needs to R&D execution: Partner across business development and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities.
• Travel: Travel ranging from 10-25% and 25-50% depending on candidate preference and role placement. Ability to commute to Arlington VA as needed.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of relevant experience
• B.S. in computer science engineering robotics or related field or relevant experience/show of skill
• Experience in integrating software on hardware systems including sensors effectors andcomputeplatforms
• Strong programming skills in languages in C/C (preferred)
• Experience vehicle networks and diagnostics(CAN CAN-FD EthernetFlexRay UDS/J1939) and to logging/trace tools
• Solid core software engineering skills: software design unit testing debugging
• Ability to consistently deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment
• Strong understanding of algorithms data structures and software design principles
• Demonstrates clean maintainable code and documentation practices
• Experience working in teams and a willingness to proactively solve problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software development for robotics and autonomous systems
• Experience working with openarchitectures(e.g. IOP MOSA SOSA FACE or similar)
• Experience with safety-critical systems (e.g. MIL-STD-882 ISO-26262 DO-178)
• Experience programming in languages in Python and Java
• Experience with ROS2
• Experience with state machines and motion / path planning
• Experience with issue tracking (JIRA)
• Knowledge of navigation mapping algorithms and robot perception
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems and embedded programming
• Leadership experience on cross-functional software teams

US Salary Range
$120000$200000

The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience education specialized training critical expertise training and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterras overall compensation addition to base salary and equity Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including:

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options including an HSA-eligible plan with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
• A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan including traditional Roth 401(k) and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.

Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in accordance with local state and federal laws. Forterrans are unique talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applications will receive equal consideration for employment.

Required Experience:

Senior IC