- 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.
