Forterra

Engineer

• Contribute to the development and architectural design supporting the delivery of safety-critical ground based autonomous solutions.
• Responsible for performing analyses for hazard identification, evaluation and control using quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques based on the System Safety Program Plan.
• Work across Forterra to design safety into our autonomous vehicle systems from the ground up - focusing on commercial applications.
• Tackle the topics of functional safety, AI/machine learning, embedded systems and software development in a complex system environment.
• Work to define safety architecture, safety concepts and derive requirements from safety analyses.
• Perform safety analyses such as: Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Modes, States and Transitions Hazard Analysis, Robotic Behavior/Capability Assessments.
• Communicate design considerations and progress with respect to system safety across the engineering organization.
• Incorporate Hazard Analyses into a Model-based Safety environment.
• Participate in trade studies and testing activities to ensure safety requirements are met.
• Participate in Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.).

System Safety Engineer, Commercial Systems

• Lead the development, execution, and maintenance of Forterra’s Commercial Safety Case Framework
• Oversee and support the development of safety case evidence across all domains and disciplines (e.g., Systems, Safety, Autonomy, Test, Simulation, Manufacturing, Operations)
• Define, develop, and maintain Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) to measure safety case objectives and provide traceability to safety claims
• Create and refine reusable templates, guidelines, and checklists to drive consistent system safety practices across commercial programs
• Provide technical guidance, training, and mentorship on system safety principles, tools, and practices
• Facilitate system safety reviews, audits, and assessments, ensuring findings are captured, tracked, and resolved
• Engage with third-party certification bodies and regulatory agencies to secure approvals and demonstrate compliance
• Define and apply applicable safety standards to Forterra products and platforms
• Monitor and interpret relevant system safety standards and regulations, incorporating updates into organizational processes

Senior Safety Assurance Engineer

Technical Product Manager

• Own the Roadmap for Your Area: Define the customer, value, and success metrics for your product. Make sure the work being done is the best way to deliver that value.
• Drive Alignment: Create user journeys, diagrams, and other artifacts to clarify priorities and align stakeholders internal and external to your team.
• Shape Execution: Translate ambiguous goals into clear, prioritized work. Write detailed feature descriptions and acceptance criteria that enable execution.
• Prioritize Ruthlessly: Intake and triage product improvements. Balance customer impact, technical effort, and business needs in prioritizing your backlog.
• Communicate Proactively: Keep engineering, product leadership, growth, and other stakeholders informed. Share progress, flag issues, and raise tradeoffs early.
• Measure Progress and Value: Define KPIs, evaluate work against roadmap goals, and ensure your team is maximizing impact.
• Validate Delivery: Work closely with engineering to ensure what’s built meets the intended scope and quality. Accept completed work based on clear criteria.
• Support Agile Rhythm: As a Product Owner, partner with Scrum Masters to shape sprint goals and contribute to sprint reviews.
• Escalate When Needed: Raise scope or timeline risks to Product Leadership to support decision-making.
• Champion Your Team: Evangelize successes and ensure the value your team delivers is visible across the organization.

Director

• Lead design and development of safety-critical software complying with applicable standards and focus on software architectures that are robust, reliable and fault-tolerant.
• Build, mentor, and lead a team of safety-critical software engineers, fostering a culture of rigor, accountability, and innovation.
• Lead software development activities such as sprint planning, task delegation, roadmap refinement and identifying markers of success.
• Collaborate with engineers from other cross-functional groups such as systems, safety and test to ensure product and program level needs are met.
• Manage software development throughout the development cycle, from collecting feature requests to their final delivery via thorough testing and verification activities.
• Ensure development of safety-critical embedded software in C/C++ and model-based safety-certifiable tools, establishing best practices and reviewing critical implementations when needed.
• Lead the development of software safety artifacts and required documentation to provide evidence of rigor in accordance with relevant standards.
• Define and enforce software development processes aligned with ISO-26262, IEC-61508, DO-178, and other relevant standards.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software requirements, architecture and design decisions to ensure compliance with safety software development processes.
• Lead software certification efforts and serve as the primary interface with external assessors, auditors, and regulatory bodies.

Director, Safety Critical Software

Manager

• Own the full sustainment lifecycle for deployed systems, ensuring product performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
• Support provisioning, level-of-repair analysis, and PHS&T activities to enable effective DoD supply chain integration.
• Identify and mitigate sustainment risks during new product gate processes.
• Lead internal configuration change management processes and Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) coordination.
• Prepare source technical data and drawings in support of new programs, field modifications, and Technical Manual updates.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Program Teams to analyze and report obsolescence risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Act as a technical liaison to Field Service teams, providing engineering triage and operational maintenance support.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across operations workflows and support new process rollouts.
• Utilize spreadsheets, NetSuite, Arena, and Jira to track, document, and report on technical and programmatic activities.
• Manage multiple tasks, shifting priorities, and cross-functional dependencies to ensure seamless program execution.
• On-site at Clarksburg, MD facility; work cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, program teams, and field service.

Technical Product Support Manager

DevOps Engineer

• Serve as the go-to IT expert in the newly launched Arlington office, combining Site Reliability Engineering, System Administration, and Tier 1 onsite support
• Provide hands-on AV and conferencing support, handle local IT onboarding, and resolve high-priority user issues quickly and professionally
• Act as a liaison between users and corporate IT teams, translating needs into action
• Manage and optimize local infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers (Proxmox experience a plus)
• Deploy and manage internal services with a bias toward infrastructure as code, observability, and automation
• Ensure secure, scalable, and resilient systems covering authentication, backups, and related services
• Design, implement, and maintain robust networking for office, lab, and meeting spaces; monitor and troubleshoot LAN/WAN performance, VPN access, and secure remote connectivity
• Implement tooling, automation, and observability to support production and development environments
• Participate in uptime and performance improvement initiatives for internal and cloud-based systems
• Champion CI/CD, configuration management, proactive alerting, and monitoring

IT SRE / System Administrator

Electrical Engineer

• Play a critical role ensuring that mission payloads interface reliably and safely with our autonomy stack, power systems, and tactical networks
• Design and integrate power distribution, communications, signal routing, and compute infrastructure for mission payloads, including kinetic effectors, RF systems, sensors, and fire-control modules
• Architect modular, standards-compliant interfaces using open frameworks like IOP, VICTORY, J1939, and ensure conformance with MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-882E
• Develop and validate electrical artifacts such as interface control documents (ICDs), wiring diagrams, and harness documentation
• Lead hands-on system integration, bring-up, and testing across lab and field environments, including EMI/EMC validation and battlefield failure mode protection
• Design and develop custom PCBs and electrical subsystems using Altium, including support for sensor and camera systems with common video transports (GMSL, FPD-Link, Ethernet video)
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, software, systems, and mechanical teams, government stakeholders, and third-party subsystem providers to align requirements and validate performance
• Provide ongoing troubleshooting, qualification, and user-centric support for fielded and production systems

Electrical Engineer - Mission Modules

• Be a key member of Forterra’s small, dynamic Contracts team.
• Take responsibility for significant, material subcontracting projects that will directly impact the company’s growth and execution.
• Drive subcontractor growth and performance by executing new agreements and managing existing ones.
• Use your expertise in FAR/DFARS and procurement law to help the Business Development, Proposal, and Engineering teams efficiently capture new subcontracts, grow existing ones, and set up opportunities for future work.
• Manage relationships with subcontractors and government procurement offices.
• Provide day-to-day management of the subcontract lifecycle. Draft, issue, and manage RFP development, source selection, bid evaluations, negotiations, execution, performance monitoring, modifications, and close-out.
• Track milestone, deliverables, and invoicing, manage cost and schedule adherence, and ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Represent the procurement function across the business. Collaborate with legal, finance, engineers, executives, and external vendors to resolve issues, mitigate risks, and ensure smooth subcontract execution.
• Maintain thorough and organized records and documentation in compliance with audit and review requirements.

Subcontract Manager

Analyst

• Support the capture process across multiple federal opportunities, assisting in the development of win strategies, solution positioning, and customer engagement planning.
• Develop and maintain opportunity and capture documentation (e.g., opportunity trackers, capture plans).
• Lead the preparation of proposal responses to RFI, RFP , and BAAs, including writing and editing content, coordinating input from subject matter experts, and ensuring compliance with solicitation requirements.
• Manage proposal calendars and submission schedules, keeping internal stakeholders aligned and informed.
• Conduct research on government customers, competitors, and acquisition trends to inform capture and proposal strategies.
• Assist with formatting, proofreading, and final production of proposal submissions.
• Participate in after-action reviews and support continuous improvement of capture and proposal processes.

Capture and Proposal Analyst

Full-stack Engineer

• Forterra is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive execution of advanced mission module development on autonomous ground systems. You’ll work at the intersection of autonomy, power, comms, and weapon systems to deliver payloads such as Counter-UAS, combat engineer, and other mission critical payloads capabilities.
• This is a deeply technical leadership role requiring system-level thinking, cross-functional coordination, and direct execution accountability. You will serve as the Mission Module technical owner, architect, and lead engineer—ensuring delivery of fieldable capabilities that integrate seamlessly with Forterra’s autonomy stack and platform architecture.
• Lead the technical development and integration of payloads (e.g., Counter-UAS, EW, ISR, kinetic) into Forterra’s vehicle platforms
• Lead technical execution across multiple engineering disciplines (software, electrical, mechanical, autonomy, systems, and systems integration)
• Manage and mitigate technical and programmatic risks through proactive design and schedule control
• Own the engineering schedule and ensure alignment with overall program milestones and delivery dates
• Collaborate directly with defense customers, partners, and vendors to align on technical solutions and delivery milestones
• Lead development and decomposition of system requirements and interface definitions for the program (Accountable but will have support from the broader org and dedicated resources within the division). Ensure compliance with program-specific standards including MIL-STD-882E, NIST 800-53, amongst others.
• Define, manage, and own the logical and physical system architecture for the specific program across software and hardware domains
• Operate with full accountability, even in the absence of direct authority or guidance. Resolve technical and organizational conflict across functions to maintain execution velocity.
• Drive creation and management of all required engineering artifacts: systems requirements, interface control documents, cyber compliance packages, safety analyses, etc.
• Conduct or supervise integration, verification, and validation of mission modules in lab and field environments.
• Travel: Moderate (up to 30%). Expect time in office, though flexible based on customer engagement, test campaigns, and platform bring-up travel.

Technical Lead – Mission Modules

Data Scientist

• Generate, standardize, update, and manage a library of technical data packages for every Forterra part across platforms
• Produce vector line art, product data sheets, provisioning and logistics data, sustainment bills of material, manufacturing and inspection procedures, depot-level repair procedures, and illustrated parts breakdowns
• Create technical data for configuration-managed parts including part specification, provisioning/shipping data, safety data sheets, HAZDECS, weights & dimensions, PHS&T data
• Create illustrations, diagrams and other visual media supporting each part and MIL-STD-40051 technical manuals
• Compile a company-searchable library on SharePoint and create exportable digital data files for each configuration-managed part
• Matrix into and support the Technical Publications team to create source data for Remove and Replace procedures, Fault Isolation procedures, and other technical manual source data
• Report to the Director of Sustainment Operations and support multiple internal functions with shifting priorities to meet urgent mission support or tight deadlines

Product Technical Data Manager

• Conduct Demo Operations, ensuring system functionality in real-world scenarios.
• Adhere to Safety Standards and operational protocols to ensure secure deployments.
• Perform Hardware Troubleshooting and Software Troubleshooting to resolve technical issues.
• Execute calibration for system accuracy (sensor calibration: Lidar, Navigation, Encoder).
• Manage Run Site After Setup procedures, ensuring site readiness for operations.
• Support Data Collection and pulling data from various sources for analysis.
• Utilize JIRA for reporting and tracking general issues and bug tickets.
• Set up and troubleshoot communication devices and support network communications.
• Support Site Operations and manage remote operations for network communications.
• Perform software updates and conduct hardware upgrades, ensuring proper integration with existing systems.

Technical Engineer, Mission Support

Mechanical Engineer

• Own the end-to-end mechanical design and integration of mission payloads into Forterra’s autonomy platform
• Design and package mechanical subsystems, including enclosures, mounts, thermal structures, and interfaces for ruggedized payload integration
• Create and manage detailed 3D CAD models, drawings, and assemblies using SolidWorks, Creo, or similar tools
• Perform structural, thermal, and vibration analysis (FEA/CFD) to ensure performance under operational and environmental loads
• Integrate mission-critical payloads—such as sensors, optics, and RF systems—into vehicle platforms with attention to mechanical, thermal, and access constraints
• Lead mechanical integration for subsystems involving hydraulic and pneumatic components
• Drive rapid prototyping and iterative development using additive manufacturing and hands-on assembly
• Ensure manufacturability, maintainability, and compliance with MIL-STD-810 and other relevant standards
• Collaborate cross-functionally and with external vendors to define and validate mechanical interfaces and system requirements
• Support field integration, testing, and troubleshooting across lab, range, and operational environments
• Participate in test campaigns, user feedback sessions, and system sustainment efforts
• Work closely with cross-functional teams—including electrical, autonomy, and systems engineering—as well as with government stakeholders and external subsystem partners

Mechanical Engineer – Mission Modules

• Prepare manufacturing capacity to produce core hardware and high level assemblies at internal and external sites
• Lead and drive manufacturing development programs, defining scope, developing plans, managing schedules, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results
• Lead and drive technical, operational, and quality issues related to products often involving custom PCBA, semiconductor devices, enclosures and interfaces
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, quality, operations, and supply chain to ensure alignment and effective execution
• Interface between sourcing, hardware development, quality, and operations to resolve technical issues
• Identify potential risks, develop mitigation plans, and proactively resolve issues to keep programs on track
• Communicate project status, risks, and decisions to stakeholders at all levels, including executive management
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, methodologies, and product quality
• Work with external manufacturing partners, managing their performance and ensuring alignment with Forterra's standards