Senior Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer - San Francisco
About the role
Senior V&V Engineer responsible for verification and validation architecture across the autonomy stack, creating test plans, acceptance criteria, and integrator handoff procedures to ensure autonomous industrial vehicles meet contract milestones.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Perform hands-on testing for high-risk or novel functionality where engineering judgment is the bar.
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.
Skills
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace: SF Mission office three days a week
About Polymath Robotics
General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles
Polymath is building a general autonomy stack for cautious vehicles. Our software allows any industrial vehicle - whether it's a tractor in a field or a bulldozer in a mine, drive itself. We bundle together AI, ML, Controls, ROS, Safety and best-in-class deployment practices to enable our customers to tell automated vehicles to do via a REST API. We're on more robots than we have engineers, are seeing our revenue (and robotic fleet) grow rapidly, and are looking for folks who want to help automate the world.
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