Senior Electrical Engineer

About Forterra

At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance.

Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives  systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real‑time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments.

The Senior Electrical Engineer willbe responsible forthe hardware design of a wide range of different systems that are critical to autonomous vehicle design such as embedded computers, power systems, networking systems, and more.

• Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers developing new hardware designs from concept through production.
• Work cross functionally with systems, safety, software, and other engineering groups throughout all phases of the product development lifecycle.
• Design to meet commercial and military vehicle operating conditions / requirements.
• Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles.
• Perform risk‑reduction prototyping testing of circuits at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
• Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and/or hardware testing.
• Generate and implement improvements of designs to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput.
• Generate design documentation to ensure the delivery of a quality finished product.
• Participate in interdisciplinary design teams and design reviews.
• Provide production build support for the manufacturing of prototypes through volume ramp‑up to production.

• B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 3+ years of hardware design experience.
• Experience with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar schematic capture / PCB Layout software.
• Design and simulation of complex digital and analog circuits.
• Experience designing high-reliability / high-safety criticality systems.
• Experience working with analog and high‑speed (3
  
  Ghz+) digital signals.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, hands‑on abilities, and working knowledge of common test equipment.
• Familiarity with design, analysis and manufacturing standards associated with complex multilayer rigid CCAs.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
• Ability to lead small teams.
• Ability to work cross‑functionally.

• Experience with automotive hardware design.
• Experience designing networking hardware.
• Experience designing embedded computers.
• Experience working with automotive camera system designs including GMSL & MIPI CSI‑2.
• Experience with automotive industry safety standard ISO 26262.
• Experience with board layout.

US Salary Range
$120,000 — $160,000

Location

On‑Site in Clarksburg, MD

The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience, education, specialized training, critical expertise, training, and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full‑time, high‑demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterra’s overall compensation package.

In addition to base salary and equity, Forterra offers competitive benefits for full‑time employees including:

• 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…