Simulated Vehicle Validation Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design, development, and maintenance of simulation-based physics/dynamics models for ground vehicles (commercial and government).
• Lead validation of models against real-world vehicles and data including directing data gathering as necessary to accomplish complete validation.
• Software development activities such as agile ceremonies, task updates, and team meetings.
• Collaborate with engineers from other cross-functional groups such as plat, systems, safety and test to ensure dynamics are acceptably accurate.
• Support troubleshooting, integration, development, and fix of automated tests focusing on vehicle dynamics issues.
• Work in a distributed team to accomplish sprint goals.
• Travel as required to support data collection.

What We're Looking For

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in Python, Linux, and C++.
• Expertise with simulated vehicle physics/dynamics programming, preferably in a game engine such as Unreal.
• Expertise in validating vehicle physics models against real life data including the design of experiments.
• Expertise in validation and research needed to create physics models from limited information.
• Strong debugging experience.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with an ability to troubleshoot and resolve software issues.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple tasks and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with game engines such as Unreal and/or Simulation platforms such as CARLA and dSPACE.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles.

Compensation

US Salary Range: $145,000—$195,000 Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time, high-demand roles. Competitive benefits including premium healthcare, PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) with match.