Navigation Software Engineer — Equity, Field-Ready Autonomy

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

Paid time off 20 days/year

7 weeks fully paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement or professional

401(k) retirement with company match

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a Navigation Software Engineer to design, implement, and validate localization systems for autonomous vehicles. You will work on real-time sensor-fusion, GNSS processing, and robust estimation to keep vehicles correctly localized in degraded environments.

You will collaborate with autonomy, safety, perception, and vehicle integration teams, contributing to calibration, field tests, and performance metrics while operating in a fast-growth, defense-aware environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in navigation, state estimation or sensor-fusion software (industry or research).
• BS or MS in Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical Eng, CS, Robotics or related field.
• Strong C++ skills and working knowledge of Kalman filtering, INS and GNSS.

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of Forterra's small, dynamic Navigation team.
• Take responsibility for well-scoped pieces of the navigation stack that affect field performance.
• Develop and improve sensor-fusion estimators; implement and tune Kalman-filter navigation (EKF/UKF/GSF) with IMU, GNSS, Doppler radar and wheel odometry.

Skills

Kalman filtering

C++

Sensor fusion

GNSS/INS

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor/Master in EE, Aerospace or Mechanical Eng, CS, Robotics

Job description

Forterra is seeking a Navigation Software Engineer to design, implement, and validate localization systems for autonomous vehicles. You will work on real-time sensor-fusion, GNSS processing, and robust estimation to keep vehicles correctly localized in degraded environments.

You will collaborate with autonomy, safety, perception, and vehicle integration teams, contributing to calibration, field tests, and performance metrics while operating in a fast-growth, defense-aware environment.