Jobs at Forterra

Architect, build, and enhance Forterra’s edge and cloud analytics platform for near-real-time autonomous vehicle insights and data products. Lead analytics engineers, manage data governance, and collaborate with warehousing and edge data teams to ensure secure, timely, accessible, and high-quality data. The role also drives robotics analytics innovation and supports cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads Advanced Product Quality Planning activities for new product launches and engineering changes. Coordinates cross-functional teams, develops APQP timing plans and quality deliverables, prepares PPAP submissions, manages risk logs and corrective actions, and serves as the primary customer quality liaison. Supports supplier quality, inspections, audits, nonconformance management, AS9102 documentation, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with AIAG, ISO 9001, and customer-specific requirements.

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.

Manages the full-cycle accounts payable process, including vendor invoices, employee travel and expense reports, corporate credit card reconciliations, payment inquiries, audit-ready documentation, internal controls, and month-end close support. The role reviews transactions for accuracy and policy compliance, maintains clear audit trails, prepares audit materials, and supports reconciliations, accruals, and variance explanations.

Owns product security for DoD autonomous systems, including end-to-end RMF and ATO execution, security architecture, requirements, threat modeling, STIG applicability, vulnerability management, monitoring, secure updates, SBOMs, and secure SDLC practices. Acts as the security subject-matter expert for engineering teams and government cyber or program offices, securing embedded hardware, software, air-gapped systems, and command-and-control platforms through authorization.

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.

Build and maintain SDKs, client libraries, APIs, extensions, command-line tools, automation, CI pipelines, test environments, documentation, and developer-facing tooling for Forterra’s Fabric and OneLink platforms. The role improves onboarding and integration experiences, supports internal developers and external vendors, troubleshoots distributed systems, and delivers technical demonstrations, workshops, and reference implementations.

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.

Leads Forterra’s DevOps, platform, infrastructure, tooling, and CI/CD strategy for autonomy, embedded, robotics, simulation, and cloud workloads. Owns compliant AWS and on-premises environments, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, test infrastructure, telemetry systems, and internal engineering platforms. Builds and manages the DevOps organization, improves development and release velocity, controls costs, and partners with engineering, IT, security, compliance, and executive stakeholders in ITAR- and NIST-aligned defense environments.

Provides on-site and remote technical support for autonomous hardware and software systems in customer and operational field environments. Responsibilities include monitoring performance, troubleshooting networking and software issues, analyzing logs, performing root-cause investigations, supporting installations and updates, and documenting field activity. The role serves as a technical customer escalation point, partners with engineering teams, and may require extended deployments in active combat zones and international travel up to 75%.

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.

Develop and lead Android ATAK plugin capabilities for tactical command-and-control systems supporting autonomous ground vehicles. Responsibilities include Java/Kotlin development, API architecture, data modeling, C/C++ integration through JNI, secure communications over degraded networks, user experience guidance, field validation, documentation, code reviews, and mentorship. The role collaborates across autonomy, networking, UI/UX, and vehicle software teams to deliver reliable mission software for commercial and defense applications.

Lead company-wide technical training for autonomous ground vehicle operators, maintainers, safety personnel, and customers. Develop curricula, instructor materials, hands-on exercises, assessments, and certification criteria; coordinate delivery with trainers and field teams; support program kickoffs and deployments; establish scalable intake and execution processes; track readiness and enablement metrics; and continuously improve training through cross-functional and customer feedback.

Build and operate agentic AI infrastructure, including agent definitions, MCP servers, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, enterprise integrations, identity controls, and production services. Establish reliable autonomy boundaries, observability, security, cost controls, and human escalation processes. Lead adoption through training, onboarding, platform standards, contributor enablement, and cross-functional influence across engineering, safety, IT, cybersecurity, product, and leadership.

Develop and optimize C++ and Python software for distributed robotic platforms, including middleware, configuration, logging, diagnostics, networking, and testing. Translate system requirements into reliable implementations, troubleshoot communication issues in deployed autonomous systems, optimize performance across hardware and networked subsystems, and help evolve architectures for secure, resilient operation in constrained environments.

Own vehicle systems architecture, requirements, interface documentation, and integration and testing across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines. Integrate COTS and custom actuation and sensing systems onto autonomous vehicle platforms, troubleshoot lab and field issues, develop test plans, analyze telemetry using scripts, and support safety analysis. Collaborate with engineering and program stakeholders while interpreting schematics, CAD models, software designs, and system-level impacts.

Develop real-time path and motion-planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles using C++ and Linux. Integrate planning with perception, localization, controls, and platform systems; deploy and debug software on physical vehicles; and validate performance through simulation, HIL, and field testing. The role also involves distributed-system messaging, real-time profiling, troubleshooting environmental and hardware edge cases, and cross-functional collaboration across autonomy and systems teams. Travel up to 20% is required.