Software Systems 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 Software Systems Engineer to define and integrate the requirements, architecture, interfaces, and verification approach for safety critical embedded software supporting autonomous ground vehicles. This is an individual contributor role that works across software, systems, test, and safety engineering. You will turn operational and safety needs into implementable requirements and interfaces, maintain the technical thread through verification, and help the team understand how the software will behave, integrate, and perform across multiple platforms
Someone who can connect system intent to implementation. You should be comfortable moving between functions, requirements, interfaces, architecture, software behavior, and verification evidence. The role requires enough technical depth to work directly with embedded software teams and enough systems perspective to see how decisions affect the larger vehicle and safety case.
What you'll do

• Derive, refine, and maintain system and software requirements for safety critical embedded functions.
• Break system functions into implementable software responsibilities and support functional allocation across system elements.
• Define interfaces, data flows, operating modes, fault behavior, and assumptions for embedded software components.
• Maintain the relationship between hazards, safety goals, mitigations, requirements, architecture, and verification evidence through requirements traceability.
• Review software and system designs for completeness, consistency, testability, diagnosability, and safe behavior under faults and abnormal conditions.
• Work with software and test engineers to establish verification methods, resolve requirement issues, and assess coverage and evidence.
• Support architecture reviews, requirements reviews, technical baseline reviews, integration reviews, and customer reviews with clear technical analysis and documentation.
• Work across development, test, safety, and program teams to resolve cross component issues and maintain a reusable platform baseline.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineer

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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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