Jobs at Forterra

Design, develop, test, and maintain software for autonomous robotics systems. Integrate and validate autonomy software on real vehicles, manage software releases, optimize vehicle-wide performance, analyze test results, debug across subsystems, and collaborate with engineering, research, and product teams to deliver production-quality capabilities and integrations.

Owns spares inventory, replenishment, shipping, recovery, site readiness, returns, repairs, and reporting for autonomous ground vehicle systems. Maintains ERP records, serial traceability, cycle counts, purchase orders, and inventory accuracy. Coordinates with Quality, Supply Chain, Field Service, Engineering, program leadership, and customers to resolve discrepancies, manage RMAs, prepare site spares packages, and improve sustainment procedures.

Design, develop, test, and maintain real-time simulation software for autonomous off-road and on-road systems. Create simulation features, scenarios, integrations, terrain, and sensor capabilities while collaborating with systems, safety, and test teams. Support automated testing, troubleshooting, platform evaluations, software integration, and release verification in a distributed Agile environment.

Deploys, operates, and troubleshoots Vektor’s L2/L3 network infrastructure across field sites and cloud environments. Responsibilities include configuring Linux network appliances, automating infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform, managing AWS infrastructure, analyzing telemetry, supporting VPNs and routing, and conducting customer-site installations and maintenance. The role requires extensive travel, collaboration across engineering, mentoring, and approximately 11+ years of network or systems engineering experience.

Manages the full-cycle accounts payable process, including vendor invoices, employee travel and expense reports, corporate credit card reconciliation, payments, audit-ready documentation, internal controls, and month-end close support. The role also responds to vendor and employee inquiries, assists with audits, and ensures compliance with company policies and applicable regulatory frameworks.

Provides high-level administrative support to senior executives by managing complex calendars, domestic and international travel, meetings, events, communications, confidential information, commitments, and follow-ups. The role requires anticipating needs, resolving scheduling conflicts, coordinating stakeholders, preparing meeting materials, improving administrative processes, and supporting special projects in a fast-paced defense technology environment.

Build APIs, SDKs, adapters, and integration tools for Fabric, a distributed systems platform supporting autonomous vehicles, command-and-control applications, and partner systems. Design interfaces, schemas, and compatibility patterns; develop backend services; integrate across unreliable networks; and improve testing, deployment, observability, and developer tooling. Collaborate with internal teams and external integrators, troubleshoot integration issues, document solutions, and contribute to platform architecture and roadmap decisions.

Owns Windows and Linux administration across a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. Designs and deploys enterprise infrastructure across multiple sites, administers Azure Government, Entra ID, Proxmox, storage, networking, and endpoint systems, and automates configuration with Ansible. The role also leads disaster recovery, compliance hardening, infrastructure security, on-call emergency response, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Own the integrated software product baseline and release cadence across autonomy software, communications, data platforms, edge hardware, and firmware. Define release criteria, make inclusion decisions, manage dependencies, maintain configuration documentation, measure release health, align cross-functional teams, communicate risks, and ensure products meet customer and field requirements.

Own product positioning, messaging, launches, content, competitive intelligence, and sales enablement for Forterra’s autonomous mission systems. Translate complex capabilities across mobility, communications, compute, and sensing into compelling materials for defense decision-makers, program offices, and industry partners. Partner with engineering, marketing, growth, and business development teams to develop proof points, support demos and events, and shape product strategy.

Creates visual assets for digital, print, events, campaigns, advertising, recruiting, and internal communications. Develops campaign identities, illustrations, infographics, templates, and scalable brand systems while translating complex technical concepts into compelling visual stories. Partners with marketing, communications, product, engineering, and leadership teams; prepares production-ready assets; manages multiple projects; and coordinates with external creative and production vendors.

Own vehicle systems architecture, requirements, integration, and testing across mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Integrate COTS and custom actuation and sensing systems, troubleshoot vehicle and lab issues, develop test plans, analyze telemetry with scripts, and create safety engineering artifacts. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams while interpreting schematics, CAD models, software, and interface documentation.

Design, integrate, deploy, and validate payload software on autonomous ground-vehicle platforms. Collaborate with users, product managers, researchers, and engineering teams to deliver autonomy behaviors and mission capabilities. Optimize sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems; analyze tests, diagnose root causes, and resolve issues through deployment. Translate customer requirements into production-quality software while supporting real-world national security missions.

Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for defense autonomy solutions, cultivate relationships with defense commands and program offices, convert pilot programs into sustained deployments, coordinate cross-functional teams, expand market presence, and build new business lines and teams.

Own Forterra’s product security program across autonomous vehicle platforms, including security strategy, governance, DoD ATO and IATT lifecycles, STIG compliance, threat modeling, SBOM and vulnerability management, incident response, and security requirements. Lead product security engineers and cross-functional contributors, brief executives and government stakeholders, support bids and customer evaluations, and build a security-focused engineering culture.

Owns requirements, functional architecture, traceability, safety integration, and technical change-impact analysis for an autonomous yard truck program. Coordinates software, hardware, autonomy, controls, vehicle, safety, integration, and test teams; ensures requirements are implementable and verifiable. The role also matures systems engineering processes, evaluates AI-assisted engineering tools, leads cross-functional technical reviews, and mentors systems engineers.

Designs and owns vehicle-level test strategies for autonomous vehicle features and safety-critical functions. Translates requirements into test plans, executes testing across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop benches, and live vehicles, analyzes failures, automates checks, and communicates system risk and readiness. Partners with systems, software, hardware, and safety teams on verification and validation strategy, testability, and program milestones.

Own end-to-end command-and-control software integration across autonomous vehicle systems, middleware, networks, and operator control units. Define message contracts, bridge autonomy and middleware, support legacy and next-generation interfaces, deploy software to customer hardware, and debug field issues across constrained networks. Translate program needs into C2 capabilities, collaborate across engineering teams, analyze test results, and support real-world missions. The role requires Linux development, middleware experience, cross-stack troubleshooting, communication skills, and willingness to use agentic AI and travel.

Develops and edits compliant proposals and business development materials for U.S. Government and defense opportunities. Translates complex technical, operational, and programmatic input into persuasive customer-focused content, including RFIs, sources sought responses, white papers, solution briefs, capability statements, and executive summaries. Collaborates with capture, growth, technical, program, and leadership teams to create win themes, tailor messaging, manage reviews, maintain content libraries, and improve proposal-writing processes.

Manages manufacturing builds from kickoff through commissioning, customer turnover, invoicing, and warranty transition. Owns scope, schedule, budget, quality, resource allocation, risk management, safety, and contract execution. Leads engineering and technician teams, coordinates across Operations and Engineering, reports build status, mentors personnel, and ensures compliance with ISO 9001, SMS, and other applicable standards.