Lead Software Test Engineer, Safety Critical Embedded Systems

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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 at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments.

About the role
Forterra is looking for a Lead Software Test Engineer to establish and run verification and validation for the safety critical embedded software used on our autonomous ground vehicles. This is initially an individual contributor role. You will set the software test approach, build the automation and test environments, execute the work, and maintain the evidence needed for customer and safety reviews. You will work closely with software, systems, and safety engineers to find problems early and make sure the software behaves correctly when things go wrong. As the capability grows, the role may develop into a technical lead for a small test team
Someone who can build a practical software test capability from the ground up and is comfortable working directly in the code, test environments, and evidence. This person should be able to work across software, systems, and safety engineering while staying focused on finding meaningful failures and making the product more dependable
What you'll do

• Set the verification and validation approach for safety critical embedded software from kickoff through qualification, including the test plan, test procedures, results, and reports.
• Turn system, software, and safety related requirements into practical tests with objective pass or fail criteria.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, tests, results, and anomalies.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded software, including software in the loop and hardware in the loop environments.
• Exercise failure behavior through fault injection, timing and jitter tests, communications failures, memory faults, power and clock faults, negative tests, boundary tests, and stress tests.
• Use static analysis, dynamic analysis, and coverage results to find gaps and help the team close them.
• Prepare and maintain test evidence, including plans, procedures, results, V&V matrices, compliance matrices, anomaly records, tool qualification records, and contributions to the safety case.
• Work with software, systems, and safety engineers to review designs for testability, improve requirements, and support technical reviews and assessments.
• Provide technical gu

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• 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%.

Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.

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Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer, providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in all personnel practices. Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain.
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