FORT brings together the best technologists who have spent their careers working to solve the most complex and dangerous aspects of robotics.
The company was founded in 2018 by Samuel Reeves, who spent the previous decade making landmine clearance safer through robotics. During this time, Reeves realized that secure communications – considered core infrastructure elsewhere in technology – didn’t exist for robots in fields like construction, agriculture, warehousing, or elsewhere. FORT was founded to create a first-of-its-kind Robotics Control Platform (RCP) to empower companies with unique tools to ensure robots cause no harm.We are seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to join the team for a
three-month contract to hire to join our team and help us build the future for autonomous and robotics machines.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop embedded software for the next generation of safety and security solutions for robotics and autonomous systems.
- Develop complex features on custom microcontroller-based, rugged, battery-powered, wireless safety devices
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Maintain the project status, schedule, and resource allocation for all active projects worked on by the team
- Work with a high-performance cross-functional team to architect, develop, and test multiprocessor embedded systems
- Work closely with the team to ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements (FCC, UL, CE, RIA, ISO, IEC, etc.)
QUALIFICATIONS
- A software developer with at least 6+ years of experience with the development of embedded in C and C++
- Ability to clearly explain complex technical issues and justify technical decisions
- Demonstrated experience in leading software projects while providing technical inputs to unblock supporting teams
- Leadership skills, a team player
- Advantage - experience with leading a team
- Advantage - experience with communication systems over BLE / ISM / RF
- Fluent in modern SCM workflows (i.e., git, Bitbucket)
- Comfortable reading and interpreting schematic diagrams
- Experienced in debugging using lab tools such as a logic analyzer, protocol analyzer, multimeter, and oscilloscope
- A professional with at least a B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Aerospace Engineering
Increasingly, today’s worksites require people and machines to collaborate side by side. To ensure control amid increasing automation, FORT’s platform is safe, secure, and dynamic in ways that can’t be achieved by legacy controls or next-gen AI. Autonomous machines hold great promise but present new and serious risks. FORT minimizes those risks by ensuring communications integrity over any network – allowing customers to rest assured that their most valuable assets, people, data, and machines are always safe and secure.
