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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.\n\nForterra 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.\n\nAbout the role\n\nForterra 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\n\nSomeone 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\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nSet the verification and validation approach for safety critical embedded software from kickoff through qualification, including the test plan, test procedures, results, and reports.\n\nTurn system, software, and safety related requirements into practical tests with objective pass or fail criteria.\n\nMaintain traceability between requirements, tests, results, and anomalies.\n\nBuild and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded software, including software in the loop and hardware in the loop environments.\n\nExercise failure behavior through fault injection, timing and jitter tests, communications failures, memory faults, power and clock faults, negative tests, boundary tests, and stress tests.\n\nUse static analysis, dynamic analysis, and coverage results to find gaps and help the team close them.\n\nPrepare and maintain test evidence, including plans, procedures, results, V&V matrices, compliance matrices, anomaly records, tool qualification records, and contributions to the safety case.\n\nWork with software, systems, and safety engineers to review designs for testability, improve requirements, and support technical reviews and assessments.\n\nProvide technical guidance through test plan reviews, design reviews, pairing, and mentoring. \n\nHelp establish the practices and infrastructure needed to grow a small software test capability.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.\n\nFive or more years of experience testing embedded systems or safety critical software.\n\nStrong working knowledge of C or C++ and Python for test automation.\n\nExperience working with requirements management and requirements traceability using tools such as Jama or DOORS.\n\nFamiliarity with MISRA C or MISRA C++, static analysis, and structural coverage methods such as branch coverage and MC/DC.\n\nExperience testing software on an RTOS such as QNX, including work with embedded targets, debuggers, and instrumentation.\n\nStrong troubleshooting skills and the ability to separate hardware, software, and firmware problems in a complex system.\n\nA practical, organized approach to managing several priorities and producing clear technical documentation.\n\nAbility to work remotely with up to 25% travel\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience applying safety critical development and assurance standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508,\n\nDO-178C, MIL-STD-882E, JSSSEH, or JS-SSA-IG.\n\nExperience with QNX, Linux, NXP S32G, or similar embedded platforms.\n\nExperience with CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, UDS, J1939, or other vehicle networks and diagnostic protocols.\n\nUnderstanding of robotics domains such as motion control, planning, perception, fault management, and vehicle interfaces.\n\nExperience integrating electromechanical systems in automotive, aerospace, medical, industrial, defense, or similar environments.\n\nExperience providing technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, or improvements to shared test and development practices.\n\nUS Salary Range\n\n $125,000.00.—$150,000.00 USD \nThe 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:\n\nPremium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. \n\nBasic 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.\n\nExtremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.\n\nCompetitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.\n\nA minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. \n\nA $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.\n\nFully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. \n\n401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.\n\nYour recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.\n\nCLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For more information about U.S. Security Clearances: click here.  \n\nForterra 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. \n\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran and disability status, and criminal history, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws.\n\nForterra is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.\n\nTo see Forterra’s candidate data privacy policy, please visit Forterra Legal | Job Applicant Privacy Notice. \n\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":7498,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Life insurance","Parental leave","Professional development","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electrical & Electronic Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T08:28:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["seen:9","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/forterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/forterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T06:15:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7749,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":176390},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=176390"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fforterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fforterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fforterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/forterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fforterra-lead-software-test-engineer-safety-critical-embedded-systems"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3264995}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"forterra.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3264995},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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