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company About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance. Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments. role About the role The Systems Engineer is the systems engineering authority for the Autonomous Yard Truck program. The role owns the integrity of requirements, functional architecture, traceability, and technical change impact activities across product, autonomy, drive-by-wire, vehicle, safety, software, hardware, integration, and test teams. This engineer ensures product intent is translated into implementable and verifiable system behavior while helping mature the organization's systems engineering practices and AI-enabled tooling. What you'll do Requirements and Traceability Own the capture, structure, review, quality, and maintenance of Product, System of Systems (SoS), and System requirements in Jama Connect. Maintain end-to-end traceability so System requirements trace to SoS requirements, SoS requirements trace to Product requirements, and every System requirement has a justified path to the Product need it supports. Ensure Product requirements link to validation scenarios and SoS/System requirements link to verification test cases; regularly resolve missing, incorrect, duplicate, or unjustified requirements and relationships. Functional Architecture and Safety Integration Develop and maintain the Yard Truck SoS functional architecture and use it to derive, organize, map, and allocate requirements across autonomy, the Drive-by-Wire Kit, vehicle systems, operator interfaces, remote operations, and supporting systems. Ensure the architecture supports safety analyses, including Functional Hazard Analysis for autonomy and ISO 26262 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment activities for the Drive-by-Wire Kit. Coordinate closely with the Yard Truck Safety team so hazards, safety goals, mitigations, safety concepts, and safety-derived requirements are reflected in the architecture, Jama baseline, and verification approach. Implementation Alignment and Change Impact Work with systems engineers and development subject-matter experts to allocate and trace System requirements to the software, hardware, controls, interfaces, and vehicle elements responsible for Number of headcount you want to hire? 2 1 implementation. Confirm that product features are fully decomposed into implementable system behavior and represented in development, integration, verification, and validation activities. Partner with development and test teams to identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, and needed changes discovered during implementation and testing. Assess new features, feature changes, and defects against requirements and architecture, including impacts to safety, interfaces, allocations, verification cases, validation scenarios, and traceability; distinguish implementation defects from requirements defects, architecture gaps, interface issues, and legitimate feature changes. Systems Engineering Process and Tooling Help define and mature the systems engineering processes applied to the Yard Truck program and represent program needs in broader organizational process, governance, and tooling discussions. Collaborate with other systems engineers to evaluate and integrate emerging AI-assisted requirements, architecture, traceability, review, and change-impact tools, while ensuring outputs remain subject to engineering review and configuration control. Make requirements and systems artifacts easier for non-systems-engineering personnel to understand and use through clear structures, terminology, visualizations, reports, dashboards, training, and practical workflows. Technical Leadership Lead cross-functional reviews involving product, autonomy, software, hardware, controls, safety, test, vehicle integration, and operations; resolve requirement, architecture, interface, and ownership issues through influence and technical judgment. Mentor systems engineers and provide working-level guidance to stakeholders using Jama, architecture models, traceability information, and related engineering artifacts. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline. Seven or more years of systems engineering experience supporting complex cyber-physical systems integrating software, hardware, sensing, controls, communications, and physical equipment. Demonstrated experience with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, configuration management, and bidirectional traceability across multiple levels of a system hierarchy. Experience developing or maintaining functional architectures and using them for interface management, implementation allocation, safety analysis, and verification planning. Experience coordinating across software, hardware, controls, safety, integration, product, and test organizations to resolve technical issues and assess engineering changes. Experience with Jama Connect, IBM DOORS, Polarion, or a comparable requirements platform, along with strong technical leadership, facilitation, writing, and stakeholder-management skills. Preferred Qualifications Systems engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, automated industrial equipment, or intelligent transportation. Experience with autonomy functions such as perception, localization, behavior planning, vehicle control, teleoperation, remote operations, or Drive-by-Wire systems. Experience supporting Functional Hazard Analysis, ISO 26262 HARA, functional safety concepts, or safety-derived requirements. Experience with model-based systems engineering tools and/or the evaluation, deployment, or governance of AI-assisted engineering workflows. US Salary Range $150,000—$190,000 The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience, education, specialized training, critical expertise, training, and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time, high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterra’s overall compensation package. In addition to base salary and equity, Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including: Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%. Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process. CLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For more information about U.S. Security Clearances:  click here . Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer, providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in all personnel practices. Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran and disability status, and criminal history, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Forterra is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process. To see Forterra’s candidate data privacy policy, please visit Forterra Legal | Job Applicant Privacy Notice .

company About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance. Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments. role About the role Forterra is seeking a C2 Software Integration Engineer to own the command-and-control workflow that connects our autonomy stack to the operators who use it in the field. This is a full-stack integration role that spans the layers of that workflow: the autonomy stack, the middleware that moves data between systems, and the operator control unit (OCU) that operators use to command and monitor vehicles. Your job is to make command and control work end to end — from a command defined on a vehicle, through the middleware and the network, to the action an operator takes at the OCU — and to keep it working in real-world deployments. We are in the middle of transitioning from our legacy OCU to a next-generation replacement. You will help bring the new interface online while keeping the legacy one running for the programs that still depend on it, and help carry those workflows across as the fleet transitions. You will not be a middleware engineer or a front-end engineer. You will be the integrator who ties those layers together: fielding, debugging, supporting, and owning the success of this full-stack C2 workflow for programs. You will directly support real-world missions across our fleet of ground vehicles operated by our national security customers around the world. The ideal candidate picks up unfamiliar codebases quickly, is a self-starter who does not wait to be handed scope, and is eager to leave a visible impact on how our systems are commanded and controlled. You are comfortable being the person who follows a problem across multiple systems and the network between them until it is resolved. What you'll do Own command and control end to end. Take a command from its definition on the vehicle, through the middleware and the network, to its representation at the OCU — and be accountable for the whole path working. Define and evolve the contracts between systems. Add and extend the message contracts that describe vehicle state, tasks, and commands, and carry them through to every system that produces or consumes them. Own the bridge between autonomy and middleware. Extend the integration layer that translates between the autonomy stack and the middleware — publishing what the vehicle knows (telemetry, autonomy state, Number of headcount you want to hire? 1 1 route and convoy state, zones) and turning operator commands into vehicle behavior (waypoint driving, route planning, convoy, teleop) while reporting status back. Frame command and control through the interface. Partner on the operator-facing interface to expose new commands and vehicle behaviors to operators in a usable way. You do not need to arrive as a frontend expert, but you must be willing to learn how command and control is framed through user interfaces and to contribute across that boundary. Support the outgoing interface. Keep the legacy OCU working for the programs that still rely on it, and help migrate those workflows onto the new interface as the fleet transitions. Field, debug, and support. Deploy the C2 workflow onto customer-bound hardware, validate it under real conditions, and drive issues to root cause across the autonomy stack, the middleware, and the network — including debugging behavior over constrained and unreliable links. Close the loop from test to deploy. Analyze test and field results, identify failures across the stack, and collaborate with the autonomy, middleware, interface, and networking teams to resolve them. Connect program needs to execution. Translate program and end-user requirements into delivered C2 capabilities, and be the integration point of contact who makes the full workflow succeed for a program. Leverage agentic AI. Use agentic AI tooling as a first-class part of how you navigate large codebases, prototype, and ship. Travel. 10–50% depending on candidate preference and role placement. Ability to commute to Clarksburg, MD as needed. Minimum Qualifications B.S. in computer science, engineering, robotics, or related field, or relevant experience / show of skill. Experience with publish/subscribe or message-oriented middleware. Comfortable with — or able to quickly pick up — message schema / interface-definition formats and code generation. Willingness to learn how command and control is framed through user interfaces, and to contribute across the full stack rather than staying in one layer. Demonstrated ability to pick up unfamiliar codebases quickly and operate as a self-starter Core software engineering skills: software design, unit testing, debugging. Proficiency with the Linux command line and comfort working within a Linux development and deployment environment A willingness to work with agentic AI to accomplish your goals. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain behavior across system boundaries clearly. Preferred Qualifications Proficiency in C++ Experience building usable, full-stack web applications, including: React, Vue, Svelte, or alternative TypeScript, or alternative Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, or alternative Node.js, NestJS, or alternative RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or alternative Networking experience, including UDP/TCP, unicast/broadcast/multicast, routing, and general networking fundamentals, with hands-on network debugging, ideally over constrained or unreliable links Experience integrating software on hardware products Experience with robotics or autonomous systems Familiarity with real-time or near-real-time systems Background in defense, automotive, robotics, or safety-critical software US Salary Range $120,000—$200,000 The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience, education, specialized training, critical expertise, training, and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time, high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterra’s overall compensation package. In addition to base salary and equity, Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including: Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%. Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process. CLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For more information about U.S. Security Clearances:  click here . Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer, providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in all personnel practices. Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran and disability status, and criminal history, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Forterra is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process. To see Forterra’s candidate data privacy policy, please visit Forterra Legal | Job Applicant Privacy Notice .

company About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance. Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments. role About the role This is an in-office position. The teams you support are in the field — deployed at program sites, operating our systems and moving data. You are their remote lifeline: when data stops flowing, a field network won't come up, an operator station misbehaves, or a box needs debugging, you resolve it from the office so program staff and the field teams don't have to travel to fix it. You are the Level 2 escalation behind our Level 1 on-site support, and when the support queue is quiet you contribute to general software development. We have a strong preference for an in-person, in-office candidate, though remote may be considered for the right person. Depending on the program you'll also step into Level 1 on-site support — expect roughly 25-35% travel averaged across the year. What you'll do Own the health of our field data pipeline — monitor that data is being captured and uploaded from program sites, diagnose failures, and drive them to resolution remotely. Provide Level 2 remote support to Level 1 on-site staff and to program teams on the ground across several field-facing systems: field networking (setup, configuration, mesh/tactical networks), operator control stations, and message-transport systems that connect operators to deployed systems. Debug issues across the stack — Linux systems, networking, and our data and comms tooling — and either fix them directly or coordinate the right engineering owner. Read and write Python to inspect, patch, and improve support and automation scripts that keep field infrastructure running. Document recurring problems and fixes so on-site (Level 1) staff can self-serve, reducing the need for anyone to travel to a site to keep systems running. Travel to program sites to provide hands-on Level 1 support when a program needs it — roughly 25-35% of the time, averaged over the year. - Contribute to general software development when the support queue is light — tooling, automation, and features that improve the systems above. Act as a utility player: flex onto adjacent software and infrastructure tasks as team needs shift. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent hands-on experience. Solid networking fundamentals — able to configure IP addressing, DNS, DHCP, routing/switching, VLANs, and VPNs, and troubleshoot a network from the ground up. Bonus points if you understand how these are implemented and work under the hood. Comfortable with Linux and basic command-line debugging (logs, services, processes, connectivity). Able to read and write Python for scripting and troubleshooting. - Strong attention to detail and a methodical, follow-through approach to problems. Clear communicator who can guide non-experts through steps remotely. Willing to travel to program sites for on-site support — roughly 25-35% on average. A strong willingness to work with agentic AI to accomplish your goals. Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting deployed/field systems or remote sites. Familiarity with data pipelines, upload workflows, or large-file data movement. - Experience with field/tactical networking — mesh radios, unreliable links, NAT/gateways. Exposure to DevOps practices — CI/CD, containers, config management, monitoring/alerting. Some C/C++ is a bonus — helpful for going deeper on our systems over time, but not required to start. - Scripting beyond Python (Bash) and comfort with cloud or on-prem storage. Prior help-desk, IT, field-service, or Tier-2 support experience. Interest in robotics/autonomy and working alongside field-deployment teams. US Salary Range $120,000—$200,000 The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience, education, specialized training, critical expertise, training, and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time, high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterra’s overall compensation package. In addition to base salary and equity, Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including: Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%. Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process. CLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For more information about U.S. Security Clearances:  click here . Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer, providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in all personnel practices. Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran and disability status, and criminal history, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Forterra is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process. To see Forterra’s candidate data privacy policy, please visit Forterra Legal | Job Applicant Privacy Notice .

company About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance. Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments. role About the role The Vehicle Controls team is looking for a Systems Architect to take ownership of systems architecture, requirements, and integration/test work on our vehicle platforms. This is a true cross-disciplinary systems engineering role: you'll need enough depth in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to hold your own in a technical conversation with specialists in any of those areas, while spending most of your time on the vehicle — integrating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) actuation and sensing systems, and designing custom solutions when nothing commercially available fits the need. What you'll do Systems Architecture & Requirements Own high systems architecture for vehicle subsystems, defining how mechanical, electrical, and software components interact. Work with internal and external customers to understand requirements and tradeoffs for overall system design decisions. Collaborate with hardware and software leads to mature and develop detailed hardware and software architectures. Write, maintain, and trace system and subsystem requirements through integration and test. Author and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Interface description documents, and other systems engineering artifacts to support development and safety analysis. Systems Integration & Test Work with design and development teams to integrate custom and COTS actuation and sensing systems onto vehicle platforms, and design unique actuation or sensing solutions when no suitable existing options exists. Work hands-on with vehicles to bring hardware and software components from different teams together into a working system. Troubleshoot integration issues across mechanical, electrical, and software boundaries in both lab and vehicle environments. Develop and execute test plans and procedures to validate system and subsystem performance. Become an expert autonomous vehicle operator to gain an understanding of how the DBW system fits into overall system architecture and needs to perform. Engineering & Analysis Write scripts (e.g. Matlab, Octave, Python) to process, analyze, and visualize test and telemetry data to debug issues and verify/validate system performance. Generate systems engineering artifacts to support safety analysis (MIL-STD-882, ISO-26262), including FMEA, Fault Trees, functional architectures and allocations, etc. Interpret mechanical and electrical CAD models, Bills of Material, COTS Specifications and drawings in support of integration work and requirement analysis. Review software design and code to understand and validate system-level behavior and integration impact. Optionally contribute to design efforts in relevant field of expertise, including mechanical, electrical, or software. Cross-Functional Collaboration Communicate effectively with mechanical, electrical, software, and program stakeholders across the company. Translate between disciplines to keep integration and test work moving and on schedule. Qualifications 6+ years of hands-on systems integration and test engineering experience (exceptional candidates with 1–2 years of directly relevant experience will also be considered). B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience. Industry background and specific degree matter less than demonstrated hands-on integration experience. Demonstrated ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines and communicate credibly with specialists in each. Experience writing, managing, and tracing system and subsystem requirements on a formal engineering program. Experience integrating COTS components (especially actuation and/or sensing systems) onto vehicles or other complex electromechanical systems. Experience interpreting electrical schematics, including PCB, cable, and harness drawings. Working knowledge of interface control principles and documentation (ICDs). Ability to review text and model-based software and reason about the system-level implications of code and design changes. Scripting proficiency (e.g., Python) for processing and analyzing test data. Must be a U.S. Person and eligible to obtain a security clearance in the future. No current clearance is required to start. Willingness to work hands-on with hardware in lab and field/vehicle environments. Preferred Qualifications Experience owning systems architecture for a vehicle, robotic, or other complex electromechanical platform end to end. Experience developing and executing formal test plans and procedures. Background in automotive, medical, aerospace, robotics, or defense vehicle programs. Proficiency with mechanical design, including CAD modeling and drafting. Proficiency with electrical design, including eCAD modeling and cabling/harness design tools. Proficiency with text-based (C, C++) and/or model-based (Simulink) embedded software development. Mechanical and electrical hands-on fabrication experience (e.g. machining, 3D printing, cable assembly) US Salary Range $150,000—$200,000 The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience, education, specialized training, critical expertise, training, and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time, high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterra’s overall compensation package. In addition to base salary and equity, Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including: Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%. Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process. Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer, providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in accordance with local, state, and federal laws. Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applications will receive equal consideration for employment.