Polymath Robotics
Senior Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer - San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USPosted 1 month ago$150,000 – $200,000
Full TimeSeniorUS
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Job Description
Overview Polymath Robotics is creating software that can safely control all of the world's industrial vehicles, and we're looking for a Senior V&V Engineer to join our team. We're a small, close-knit
Key Highlights
- Own verification and validation architecture across the autonomy stack — author field test plans, simulation test cases, and acceptance test suites that scale across every vehicle of a given model.
- Write Integrator Acceptance Tests (IATs) — the structured procedures handed to integration partners to run before vehicles are delivered to Polymath.
- Define acceptance criteria and exit gates for each contract milestone, in close collaboration with engineering and program leads.
- Participate in design reviews to catch defects before they reach hardware — shift-left quality is the cheapest quality.
- Build test frameworks and plans that scale — write once, run many, with procedures clear enough that any trained executor produces reliable results.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years in V&V, systems test, autonomy/AV test, or a closely related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience writing unambiguous test procedures — plans, acceptance criteria, and validation reports another engineer or technician can execute end-to-end without back-and-forth.
- Robotics or industrial systems domain knowledge — comfortable reasoning across mechanical, electrical, and software layers.
- Experience designing acceptance tests for hardware deliverables, including procedures handed to integration partners or customers for vehicle handoff.
- Strong structured thinking — you can decompose a fuzzy "the vehicle should work" requirement into a concrete pass/fail criterion.
- Test automation proficiency in any programming/scripting language, with comfort across Linux, and simulator-based test environments. ROS2 experience a strong plus.
- Track record of catching defects in design review, where they're cheapest to fix.
- Bonus: off-road autonomy experience, functional safety background, or experience building out a test function from scratch.
- 4+ years in V&V, systems test, autonomy/AV test, or a closely related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience writing unambiguous test procedures — plans, acceptance criteria, and validation reports another engineer or technician can execute end-to-end without back-and-forth.
- Robotics or industrial systems domain knowledge — comfortable reasoning across mechanical, electrical, and software layers.
- Experience designing acceptance tests for hardware deliverables, including procedures handed to integration partners or customers for vehicle handoff.
- Strong structured thinking — you can decompose a fuzzy "the vehicle should work" requirement into a concrete pass/fail criterion.
- Test automation proficiency in any programming/scripting language, with comfort across Linux, and simulator-based test environments. ROS2 experience a strong plus.
- Track record of catching defects in design review, where they're cheapest to fix.
- Bonus: off-road autonomy experience, functional safety background, or experience building out a test function from scratch.
Skills & Technologies
Linux
About the Company
Polymath Robotics
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$150,000 – $200,000
Location
San Francisco, California, US
Posted
1 month ago
Country
US