# Autonomy Software Engineer at Forterra

- Company: Forterra
- What the company does: About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Backed by SoftBank VF.
- Company website: https://www.forterra.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Clarksburg, MD
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $165K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/forterra/jobs/9a4193b6-64e4-42ea-be96-7523acf1fcc0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/forterra-autonomy-software-engineer/

## About the role

Forterra is seeking a software engineer with a passion for autonomous systems. In this role, you will design, develop, and field software solutions that enable intelligent behavior in robotics and automation technologies. You will directly support real-world missions across our fleet of ground vehicles operated by our national security customers around the world.

## What they're looking for

- Bring autonomy into real operations: Integrate and deploy our autonomy stack on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate it in real-world conditions
- Build with users and stakeholders: Work across the organization and directly with end-users to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging mission use-cases
- Optimize the full system: Take a holistic view of autonomous vehicle behavior—how sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems interact—and drive overall performance improvements
- Close the loop from test to deploy: Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution
- Improve the core autonomy stack: Detect performance shortfalls, shape solution approaches, and implement enhancements in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Connect product needs to R&D execution: Partner across business development and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities

Tags: Emerging Tech