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Forterra

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle · Defense
Location
ClarksburgMarylandUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
May 20, 2026
Full-time

Senior Electrical Engineer - Design

Job description

Forterra is looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team in Clarksburg, MD.

Job responsibilities

  • Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles.
  • Generate design documentation for design maintainability, such as stress analysis, power budgets, firmware/hardware interfaces, SI and PI analysis, component and design trades.
  • Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers to develop new hardware designs from concept through production.
  • Suggest and perform prototyping testing for risk-reduction of circuits at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
  • Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and hardware testing.
  • Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation testing at board and subsystem levels.
  • Maintain design verification test matrix.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary design teams and design reviews.

Job requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
  • 6+ years of hardware design experience.
  • Design and simulation of complex digital and analog circuits, using circuit simulator, signal integrity and power integrity tools like LTSpice and HyperLynx.
  • Experience working with analog and high-speed (3GHz+) digital signals.
  • Experience designing high power and high-speed PCB stackups for high-reliability / high-safety criticality systems.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, hands-on abilities, and working knowledge of common test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and VNAs.
  • Familiarity with design, analysis and manufacturing standards associated with complex multi-layer PCBs.
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.

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