# Lead RF Data Scientist 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: Senior
- Location: Durham, NC
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/forterra/jobs/1ee3594d-56fd-49a1-b3e2-b88ebe96d335?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/forterra-lead-rf-data-scientist/

## About the role

We are hiring a technical research lead who wants to make a visible impact. You will take ambitious ideas from mathematical formulation through working techniques, testing, and operationally relevant evaluation. You will work closely with RF and DSP engineers, platform engineers, and analysts who use the results. The goal is not research for its own sake: it is to create capabilities that are useful, understandable, and dependable when they matter. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Design synthetic and hybrid data generation that exercises the technique's intended operating envelope, then characterize where synthetic performance does and does not transfer to collected data
- Run training and ablation studies, diagnose failures as data, labeling, representation, optimization, technique, or evaluation problems, and make the next experiment smaller and more informative
- Establish meaningful technique qualification: held-out and stress evaluation, calibration, confusion analysis, uncertainty behavior, tail failures, and clear criteria for whether a technique is ready to move forward
- Own the mapping from learned signal behavior to consistent, structured event and object descriptions, with explicit evidence rules, so that technique outputs can be understood and acted upon
- Travel up to 10% to collection sites and test events, with the ability to commute to Durham (RTP), NC or Arlington, VA as needed
- M.S. or Ph.D. in electrical engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience

Tags: Emerging Tech

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/forterra-lead-rf-data-scientist/