Senior Payloads Software Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior software engineer to design, develop, and field software for autonomous ground vehicles, integrating payloads onto customer-bound hardware and supporting real-world missions for national security customers.
What you’ll do
- Integrate and deploy payloads on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate in real-world conditions
- Work across the organization and directly with end-users to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging mission use-cases
- Take a holistic view of autonomous vehicle behavior and drive overall performance improvements
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution
What you’ll bring
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- B.S. in computer science, engineering, robotics, or related field or relevant experience
- Experience integrating software on hardware systems (sensors, effectors, compute platforms)
- Strong programming skills in C/C++
Technologies
C/C++ · CAN · CAN-FD · Ethernet · FlexRay · UDS/J1939 · ROS2 · Python · Java · JIRA
About Forterra
Builds autonomous ground-vehicle software/hardware platforms (AutoDrive perception/autonomy, TerraLink networking) for U.S. defense and commercial transit/yard-truck customers, selling autonomy as a force-multiplier product.
Series C · 200–500 people
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