Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/forterra-2/jobs/embedded-software-engineer-av-safety-united-states-remote Job Description: Forterra Website LinkedIn All Job Openings Forterra is a company that specializes in autonomous vehicle technology, with a focus on defense and commercial applications. Their flagship product, AutoDrive®, provides self-driving capabilities for both structured and unstructured environments, tackling challenges in harsh and complex conditions. Forterra's solutions are designed to optimize logistics, increase operational efficiency, and enhance safety for both soldiers in the battlefield and civilians in industrial settings. The company collaborates with partners like Anduril Industries and Hanwha Defense USA to deliver autonomous capabilities to the US Army, aiming to reduce risks and protect lives. Their technology is adaptive to varied conditions, operating seamlessly on roads, off-roads, rural, industrial sites, and more. Autonomous Mobility • Autonomous Trucking • Drayage • Yard Trucks • Automated Transportation 201 - 500 employees Founded 2017 🚗 Transport Embedded Software Engineer - AV Safety 11 hours ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $115k - $170k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟡 Mid-level 🟠 Senior 🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer RTOS Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Forterra is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and deploy software systems essential to the safe operation of our autonomous vehicle platform. • This role demands strong software engineering expertise with a focus on reliability, security, and performance, given the safety-critical nature of the work. • Design and develop safety-critical embedded software, adhering to applicable standards with a focus on robust, reliable, and fault-tolerant architectures. • Contribute to software project planning activities including sprint planning, task delegation, roadmap refinement, and defining clear markers of success. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including systems, safety, and test engineering—to ensure both product and program-level requirements are satisfied. • Contribute to software development throughout the entire lifecycle, from feature definition through testing, verification, and final delivery. • Develop safety critical embedded software in C/C++ or model-based safety certifiable development tools for use on processors running an RTOS such as QNX. • Development of software safety artifacts and required documentation to provide evidence of rigor in accordance with relevant standards. • Ensure that software requirements are clearly defined, implemented and traceable to system and safety requirements. • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software requirements, architecture, and design to ensure compliance with safety software development processes. • Participate in safety assessments, analyses and review of work products created by other functional groups that affect safety software features. 🎯 Requirements • A detail-oriented engineer with a passion for developing high-quality, high-integrity embedded software applications. • Familiarity with static analysis such as MISRA C/C++. • Experience with development for Real-time Operating Systems such as QNX. • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with an ability to troubleshoot and resolve software issues. • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple tasks and priorities. • Proven experience in software development, with a focus on quality and reliability. • Fluency in a text-based computer language usable for safety critical software development, such as C, C++, or Ada. • Experience with software development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall. • Experience with model-based programming tools such as ANSYS SCADE, Simulink, or similar in safety critical applications. • Familiarity with safety standards, such as ISO-26262, IEC-61508, DO-178, or MIL-STD-882. • Experience with CAN, CAN/FD, Ethernet, and FlexRay. • Strong understanding of algorithms and subjects relevant to ground robotics, including perception, world modeling, navigation/localization, planning, and/or motion control. • Hands-on experience with integration of other complex electro-mechanical systems (aerospace, medical, etc.). 🏖️ Benefits • Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. • Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. • Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. • Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. • A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. • A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. • Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. • 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%. Apply Now