# Senior Electrical Engineer - Design 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: Clarksburg, MD
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $160K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/forterra/jobs/e832183e-08c5-43bd-840d-12545b224ec7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/forterra-senior-electrical-engineer-design/

## About the role

Forterra is looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team in Clarksburg, MD. You will be working with a small team of engineers to develop autonomous systems for military and commercial vehicles. This involves designing and building the systems critical for autonomous vehicles using components such as embedded computers, power systems, networking components and various sensors.

## What they're looking for

- Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles
- Generate design documentation for design maintainability, such as stress analysis, power budgets, firmware/hardware interfaces, SI and PI analysis, component and design trades
- Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers to develop new hardware designs from concept through production
- Suggest and perform prototyping testing for risk-reduction of circuits at the component, subsystem, and system levels
- Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and hardware testing
- Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation testing at board and subsystem levels

Tags: Core Product