Localization Integration Engineer for Autonomous Platforms

NCSL International; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

20 days PTO per year

7 weeks parental leave

$9k annual tuition reimbursement

401(k) retirement savings with company

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a Localization Integration Engineer to deploy and scale our GNSS/INS-based localization stack across new vehicle platforms and hardware configurations. This role is focused on integration, system-level debugging, platform bring-up, and interface development.

You will work closely with our state estimation and navigation algorithm engineers to ensure our GNSS/INS-based localization stack performs reliably across diverse vehicles, sensors, and compute platforms.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Engineering, Robotics, CS or related field.
• 28 years of relevant experience in robotics, autonomy, automotive, or embedded systems.
• Understanding of state estimation concepts (EKF, UKF) to support integration and debugging.
• Experience with vehicle testing and field debugging.

Responsibilities

• Integrate localization software onto new vehicle platforms and compute environments.
• Bring up and validate new GNSS, IMU, encoder, and other navigation sensors.
• Develop and maintain hardware/software interfaces (e.g., encoder processors, sensor drivers, communication interfaces).
• Debug system-level issues across the stack—from sensor inputs to state estimation outputs.
• Support vehicle testing, data collection, and performance validation.
• Collaborate with state estimation engineers to tune configurations and resolve integration-specific issues.
• Build tools and scripts to support calibration, validation, and performance analysis.
• Coordinate localization software versioning and platform-specific dependencies with DevOps for reliable releases.
• Occasionally travel to support on-site vehicle bring-up and testing.

Skills

State estimation concepts (EKF UKF)

Robotics / autonomy knowledge

Vehicle testing / field debugging

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

ROS2 or similar middleware

Job description

Forterra is seeking a Localization Integration Engineer to deploy and scale our GNSS/INS-based localization stack across new vehicle platforms and hardware configurations. This role is focused on integration, system-level debugging, platform bring-up, and interface development.

You will work closely with our state estimation and navigation algorithm engineers to ensure our GNSS/INS-based localization stack performs reliably across diverse vehicles, sensors, and compute platforms.