Senior Autonomy Systems Software Integration Engineer

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO 20 days

Parental leave 7 weeks

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) match

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a senior software integration engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain software for autonomous systems. You’ll work on the shared autonomy stack across vehicles and applications, collaborating with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver robust, scalable software.

You will own integration and validation on real hardware, focusing on performance, testing, and production readiness while coordinating across cross-functional teams to enable new capabilities

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience.
• B.S. or M.S. in computer science, engineering, robotics, or related field.
• Experience integrating and validating software on physical hardware.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python.
• Demonstrates clean, maintainable code, durable test coverage, and documentation practices.
• Debugging across subsystem boundaries, from a symptom on a vehicle to a root cause in someone else’s code.
• Ability to consistently deliver and maintain production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the core software release cycle: Deliver new capability through rolling development releases, and harden long-term support releases that others rely on for years.
• Own performance across the whole vehicle: Take a holistic view of how sensing, compute, and controls interact, and drive the performance gains no single team can reach.
• Prove the stack on real hardware: Integrate and deploy the autonomy stack on our vehicles and validate it under real-world conditions.
• Close the loop from test to deploy: Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution.
• Build with the teams around you: Work across the organization and directly with the engineering teams building on the stack to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging use-cases.

Skills

5–8 years experience

C++

Python

Production-quality software

CI environment

Algorithms & data structures

Debugging across subsystems

Software integration on hardware

Education

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

Tools

ROS2

DDS

Conan (C++ dependencies)

RTOS & embedded programming

Job description

Forterra is seeking a senior software integration engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain software for autonomous systems. You’ll work on the shared autonomy stack across vehicles and applications, collaborating with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver robust, scalable software.

You will own integration and validation on real hardware, focusing on performance, testing, and production readiness while coordinating across cross-functional teams to enable new capabilities