# Staff Systems 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: Senior
- Location: Clarksburg, MD
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/forterra/jobs/815a7910-26fc-4439-bc38-c7d32a57a6ba
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/forterra-staff-systems-engineer/

## About the role

The Systems Engineer is the systems engineering authority for the Autonomous Yard Truck program. The role owns the integrity of requirements, functional architecture, traceability, and technical change impact activities across product, autonomy, drive-by-wire, vehicle, safety, software, hardware, integration, and test teams.

## What they're looking for

- Own the capture, structure, review, quality, and maintenance of Product, System of Systems (SoS), and System requirements in Jama Connect
- Maintain end-to-end traceability so System requirements trace to SoS requirements, SoS requirements trace to Product requirements, and every System requirement has a justified path to the Product need it supports
- Ensure Product requirements link to validation scenarios and SoS/System requirements link to verification test cases, regularly resolve missing, incorrect, duplicate, or unjustified requirements and relationships
- Ensure the architecture supports safety analyses, including Functional Hazard Analysis for autonomy and ISO 26262 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment activities for the Drive-by-Wire Kit
- Confirm that product features are fully decomposed into implementable system behavior and represented in development, integration, verification, and validation activities
- Partner with development and test teams to identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, and needed changes discovered during implementation and testing

Tags: Emerging Tech