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title: 'Sr. Embedded Software Engineer-Test Automation at FORT Robotics'
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# Sr. Embedded Software Engineer-Test Automation at FORT Robotics

- **Company:** FORT Robotics
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fortrobotics/jobs/4708674005

## Job description

In today's dynamic worksites, seamless collaboration between people and machines is essential. FORT's platform ensures safe, secure, and dynamic control that surpasses legacy systems and next-generation AI capabilities.

While autonomous machines offer significant advantages, they also introduce new safety challenges. FORT addresses these concerns by providing solutions such as the Wireless E-Stop, which allows operators to instantly stop any machine from a safe distance, enhancing safety during emergencies.

Additionally, FORT's Safe Remote Control enables operators to manage heavy machinery remotely, reducing the risk of accidents and improving visibility.

By ensuring communications integrity across any network, FORT empowers customers to protect their most valuable assets—people, data, and machines—ensuring they remain safe and secure.

We are searching for a dynamic and experienced Sr. Embedded Software Engineer-Test Automation to join our team and help us build the future for autonomous and robotic machines.

## Responsibilities

- Develop test methods and procedures to transition products from design into volume manufacturing. Design automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for software and hardware validation, including integration, unit, and system testing as part of an end-to-end test framework.
- Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests for Fort devices, manually or automatically. Establish test plans, procedures, and documentation to ensure repeatable and reliable testing.
- Collaborate with internal and external hardware and software design teams to identify, debug, and resolve new firmware and electrical hardware issues.
- Contribute to design reviews, defining testability requirements early in product development.
- Support the product engineering team in developing and maintaining R&D test environments.
- Work with manufacturing partners to create and document production test processes, including hardware and software.
- Support production and program management with the technical expertise required for special customer deliveries.
- Contribute to the re-engineering of current designs to improve quality and manufacturability.
- Work directly with customers at customer sites to help drive customer success through direct enablement. This could involve 10-20% travel.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Expertise in Pytest/test frameworks and scaling system design principles.
- Familiarity with C++ and MATLAB.
- Preferred degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Skilled in requirement management tools (Jama, Polarion) and requirement testing.
- Experience in custom hardware design.
- Experience with safety standards like IEC 61508 and ISO 26262.

## Qualifications

- An engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing tests for complex embedded products. 2+ years of experience in embedded software test automation and test framework development.
- Proficiency in software development (Python, Bash), including data analysis tools like Numpy and Pandas. Experience with hardware and software validation processes and infrastructures (Hardware-in-the-loop/Software-in-the-loop).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker, CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins), and version control (Git). Skilled in designing custom hardware and software fixtures or tools for embedded system testing. Experienced with both wired (Ethernet, CAN, UART) and wireless (BLE, Wi-Fi, LTE) networking technologies. Able to track multiple efforts and report status to various stakeholders within Fort.
- Able to effectively communicate solutions, ideas, and processes to technical and non-technical staff in and outside of Fort.
- Growth-minded and looking for an opportunity to advance with Fort.
- Excited and enthusiastic when working on products and technologies that have a real impact.

## About FORT Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FORT Robotics provides a safety-rated distributed control platform that enables the safe, secure, and reliable operation of autonomous machines and robots across industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (VC-funded; Series unknown from public data, $56.9M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Samuel Reeves (CEO), Nathan Bivans (Founding CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Automation Machinery Manufacturing; Robotics Safety & Security; Industrial Control Systems
- **Target customers**: B2B — OEMs, machine builders, integrators, and end-users in warehousing, manufacturing, construction, defense, agriculture, mining, transportation, delivery, and turf care. Customers include Fortune 500 companies and leading robotics startups.
- **Mission statement**: "To ensure robots cause no harm."

## Products & Services
- **FORT Distributed Control Platform**: A unified suite of hardware, software, and ecosystem integrations providing communications integrity, wireless safety commands (e-stop), secure real-time control, and SIL 3-certified safety for any machine application. Enables safe human-robot collaboration and machine-to-machine communication.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $56.9M (3 prior rounds). Annual Revenue estimated at $9.0M (LinkedIn data).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources, but company is VC-funded. Has integrated with NVIDIA Halos for Robotics and supports RAS-G IOP / OpenJAUS for defense compliance.
- **Growth Signals**: 600+ customers globally; headcount of 44 employees (+13.0% YoY); active job postings for multiple senior roles across Sales, Engineering, and Product; LinkedIn followers growing at +49.9% yearly; recent acquisitions (Mapless AI) and executive hires (Rinus Strydom as CRO).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-of-its-kind safety infrastructure**: Built from the ground up to solve the trust gap in physical AI and autonomy, with a decade of founder experience in landmine clearance.
- **SIL 3 certification**: Provides a certified safety foundation required for autonomous systems to scale in high-stakes environments.
- **Cross-industry applicability**: Platform works across defense, agriculture, logistics, construction, mining, transportation, and more — reducing fragmentation for customers.
- **Trusted by industry leaders**: Hundreds of customers including Fortune 500 companies, with products shipping daily.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the trust layer for Physical AI**: Extending platform capabilities (e.g., Outside-In Safety with NVIDIA Halos) and expanding into defense and autonomous vehicle markets.
- **Geographic and commercial growth**: Hiring senior account executives across the US, UK, and Canada; growing customer solutions and engineering teams.
- **Acquisition and integration**: Recently acquired Mapless AI to add new capabilities to the trust platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes building together, delivering customer experience worthy of loyalty, and accomplishing the impossible. Proactively inclusive hiring and team leadership.
- **Work environment**: Flexible work environment; remote roles available for many positions (USA, UK, Canada). Philadelphia HQ for hardware/embedded roles.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive pay, unlimited PTO, 100% paid employee healthcare benefits, 3% 401(k) match, paid life insurance, employee assistance program, stock options.
- **Impact**: Work on mission-critical safety technology deployed in real-world autonomous systems — from warehouse robots to defense vehicles. Join a fast-growing, VC-funded company with 600+ customers and products shipping daily.

## Sources
1. [fortrobotics.com](https://www.fortrobotics.com/) - Company website
2. [fortrobotics.com/about](https://www.fortrobotics.com/about) - Company mission, story, values, leadership
3. [fortrobotics.com/careers](https://www.fortrobotics.com/careers) - Careers page with benefits and open roles
4. [linkedin.com/company/fort-robotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-robotics) - Employee count, revenue, growth metrics
5. [cbinsights.com/company/fort-robotics](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/fort-robotics) - Total funding, headquarters, patent data

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