Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Test Engineer

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

80% of plan premium covered

7 weeks parental leave

Tuition reimbursement: $9k per year

401(k) with company match up to 4%

20 days PTO

Winter break

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a mid to senior Electrical Engineer to lead hardware validation and test infrastructure for autonomous vehicle platforms. You will own test development, fixture design, and validation frameworks across product lifecycles, collaborating with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams.

The role emphasizes lab debugging, automated test scripts, and scalable, repeatable testing in a production environment located on-site in Clarksburg, MD.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include hardware validation and automated test development.
• Hands-on testing fixture design and lab instrumentation experience.
• Strong understanding of design-for-test and validation methodologies.

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

Hardware/software debugging

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Forterra is seeking a mid to senior Electrical Engineer to lead hardware validation and test infrastructure for autonomous vehicle platforms. You will own test development, fixture design, and validation frameworks across product lifecycles, collaborating with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams.

The role emphasizes lab debugging, automated test scripts, and scalable, repeatable testing in a production environment located on-site in Clarksburg, MD.