Autonomous Systems Hardware Test Engineer

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

Basic Life/AD&D and disability plans

20 days PTO per year

7 weeks parental leave

Tuition reimbursement or development

401(k) with company match up to 4%

Job summary

Forterra in Clarksburg, MD is seeking a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team. You will design hardware validation strategies, develop automated test systems, and build fixtures for autonomous vehicle platforms, collaborating with firmware and software teams.

The role requires experience with lab instrumentation, design-for-test practices, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing. Hybrid work arrangement in Clarksburg, MD is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in hardware validation and automated test development.
• Hands-on experience designing test fixtures, hardware test adapters, or validation systems.
• Deep familiarity with hardware debugging and lab instrumentation.
• Strong understanding of design-for-test and validation methodologies.
• Ability to work across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to build scalable test infrastructure.
• Basic Knowledge of networking configurations and protocols.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex mixed hardware/software issues.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement hardware validation strategies for boards and subsystems used in autonomous vehicle platforms.
• Develop automated hardware test systems for engineering validation, regression testing, and manufacturing screening.
• Design and build custom test fixtures, harnesses, and interface boards to support board-level and subsystem testing.
• Develop automated test scripts and frameworks to exercise hardware interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, and power systems.
• Collaborate with firmware and software teams to integrate automated test infrastructure into development and CI workflows.
• Define test plans, test coverage, and validation methodologies across prototype, EVT/DVT, and production phases.
• Implement data collection and analysis frameworks to monitor performance, reliability, and regression trends.
• Support manufacturing teams with production test strategies and bring-up procedures.

Skills

Hardware validation

Automated test development

Test fixtures design

Lab instrumentation

Design-for-test (DFT)

Networking basics

Tools

Altium Designer

Boundary Scan

Python

Job description

Forterra in Clarksburg, MD is seeking a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team. You will design hardware validation strategies, develop automated test systems, and build fixtures for autonomous vehicle platforms, collaborating with firmware and software teams.

The role requires experience with lab instrumentation, design-for-test practices, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing. Hybrid work arrangement in Clarksburg, MD is offered.