# Senior Software Integration Engineer

**Company:** [Forterra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forterra)
**Location:** Arlington, VA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $120k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** C++, Python, Java, Ros2, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Embedded Programming, Software Integration, Path Planning, Real-Time Operating Systems
**Posted:** 2026-02-08

> Senior Software Integration Engineer designs, develops, and deploys autonomy software for robotic ground vehicles, integrating with hardware and optimizing system performance for national security missions. Requires 3+ years experience in software engineering and robotics.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- **Bring autonomy into real operations**: Integrate and deploy our autonomy stack on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate it in real-world conditions.
- **Build with users and stakeholders**: Work across the organization and directly with end-users to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging mission use-cases.
- **Optimize the full system**: Take a holistic view of autonomous vehicle behavior—how sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems interact—and drive overall performance improvements.
- **Close the loop from test to deploy**: Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution.
- **Improve the core autonomy stack**: Detect performance shortfalls, shape solution approaches, and implement enhancements in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- **Connect product needs to R&D execution**: Partner across business development and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities.
- **Travel**: Travel ranging from 10-25% and 25-50% depending on candidate preference and role placement. Ability to commute to Arlington, VA as needed.

## Qualifications
- 3 or more years of relevant experience
- B.S. in computer science, engineering, robotics, or related field or relevant experience/show of skill
- Experience in integrating software on hardware products
- Strong programming skills in languages such as **C++**, **Python**, or **Java**
- Solid core software engineering skills: software design, unit testing, debugging
- Ability to consistently deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles
- Demonstrates clean, maintainable code and documentation practices
- Experience working in teams and a willingness to proactively solve problems

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in software development for robotics and autonomous systems
- Experience with safety-critical systems (e.g., MIL-STD-882, ISO-26262, DO-178)
- Experience with **ROS2**
- Experience with state machines and motion / path planning
- Knowledge of navigation, mapping algorithms and robot perception
- Familiarity with real-time operating systems and embedded programming
- Leadership experience on cross-functional software teams

## Compensation
**US Salary Range: $120,000—$250,000** (base salary, plus equity and competitive benefits)

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