Senior Systems Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

About Forterra

Forterra is a leading provider of autonomous systems for ground-based movement in the working world. Amongst some of the earliest innovators in the field of driverless technology, Forterra is focused on building systems that protect front-line soldiers and enable civilian workers in our industrial base. Forterra is the go-to provider of ground autonomy solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense, which harnesses the technology for asymmetric warfare in critical conditions.

Forterra is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team and help advance the development of autonomous systems. The candidate will employ sound engineering practices to support technical planning, system definition, system integration, and verification and validation activities.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on the development of concepts of operation, use cases, system architectures and system requirements.
• Ensure traceability of requirements across architectures, analyses and verification plans throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the development of system architectures and ICDs.
• Support the program team with preparation and coordination of activities for technical gate reviews (ex. PDR, CDR, TRR etc.) for various systems of interest.
• Participate in system-level trade studies and analyses.
• Collect metrics and communicate with program stakeholders and management in a timely manner, identifying both technical and programmatic risks.
• Deliver presentations to internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate proposed concepts, solutions, and analysis results.
• Participate and support with verification and validation activities of autonomous vehicles.

What We're Looking For:

• Skilled systems engineer who brings together engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver cutting-edge autonomous systems.
• Clear communicator who excels at navigating multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.

What We Need:

• Education and Experience Level:
• • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems Engineering, Robotics or related area.
  • Master’s Degree with 3+ year of experience OR 4+ years of experience
• Systems engineering skills and qualifications through education or experience including requirements definition/allocation/traceability, interface definition, verification and validation.
• The ideal candidate must have the ability to understand, define and develop system specifications, architectures, interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with verification and validation activities.
• Knowledge and experience of product development through traditional waterfall and agile practices
• Familiarity with Autonomous Vehicles, sensors, embedded systems.
• Exposure to the development of safety critical systems through the product lifecycle.
• Experience with Requirement Management Tools (such as Jama, Doors)
• Familiarity with Software Development principles and ability to collaborate with SW engineering experts.

What We Love to See:

• Experience with Autonomous Vehicles behavior definition and decomposition into functional and performance requirements.
• Working knowledge of key algorithms from at least one major robotics discipline (navigation, localization, perception, planning)
• Experience developing architectures in an MBSE environment (BDD, IBD, State Machines, Sequence, Activities, parametric, etc), preferably in Cameo/MagicDraw
• Experience with safety standards for regulated industries, including automotive, military, aerospace, or medical. Example standards include, but are not limited to ISO-21448, ISO-26262, MIL-STD-882E, DO-178, and ISO-14971.
• Familiarity with Cybersecurity principles and ability to collaborate with cybersecurity experts.
• Familiarity with