Localization Integration Engineer for Autonomous Platforms

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

Life/AD&D Insurance

Disability Insurance

Generous holiday calendar

20 days PTO

7 weeks parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a Localization Integration Engineer to deploy and scale our navigation and localization software across new vehicle platforms and hardware configurations. This role focuses on integration, system‑level debugging, platform bring‑up, and interface development.

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

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Integrate localization software onto new vehicle platforms and compute environments.
• Bring up and validate GNSS, IMU, encoder, and other navigation sensors.
• Develop and maintain hardware/software interfaces (sensors, drivers).
• Debug system-level issues from sensors to state estimation outputs.
• Support vehicle testing, data collection, performance validation.
• Collaborate with state estimation engineers to tune configurations.
• Build tools and scripts for calibration, validation, and analysis.
• Coordinate localization software versioning and dependencies with DevOps.

Skills

State estimation

ROS2 middleware

Robotics software deployment

Hardware drivers

CAN bus

Ethernet

Serial communication

Education

B.S./M.S. in Engineering/Robotics/CS

Tools

ROS2

CAN

Ethernet

Serial

Job description

Forterra is seeking a Localization Integration Engineer to deploy and scale our navigation and localization software across new vehicle platforms and hardware configurations. This role focuses on integration, system‑level debugging, platform bring‑up, and interface development.

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