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Head of Validation and Verification

Bedrock Robotics· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Leading validation and verification for autonomous hardware deployments in construction, defining criteria for unsupervised deployments, and building a scalable validation architecture across multiple machine types and sites.

Responsibilities

  • Safety validation of the system. Design the metrics, scenario libraries, and architectural coverage that quantify end-to-end behavioral safety — and make them hold up as the machine set and task set expand.
  • A validation architecture that generalizes. Decide what evidence is platform-independent and what must be re-established per machine, per task, per site. Turn the safety case into something composable instead of something rewritten.
  • Systems engineering. Own requirements decomposition and traceability from mission-level intent through subsystems, and use validation findings to expose the gaps, ambiguities, and conflicts that feed back into design.
  • V&V strategy and infrastructure. Choose the right instrument for each claim — log playback, closed-loop physics simulation, structured proving-ground testing, or on-site work — and specify the tooling and sim capability needed to make those instruments trustworthy across a growing fleet.
  • Hardware and functional safety. Validate the sensing, compute, and actuation kit we install on customer machines, including functional-safety readiness of safety-critical paths, as that kit is ported onto new platforms.
  • The org. Grow a team of software, systems, test, and hardware engineers plus data scientists, and scale it ahead of the machine count rather than behind it.
  • Decision-grade reporting. Define the KPIs — verification coverage, defect trends, release readiness, system maturity — and turn dense test data into the small number of charts that let leadership, customers, and insurers make a call.

Qualifications

  • BS or advanced degree in engineering, physics, or another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years in test planning and experimental design for safety-critical autonomous or robotic systems, with a bias toward safety and repeatability.
  • Track record building and leading multidisciplinary technical organizations — software, systems, hardware, test, and data science under one roof.
  • Depth in sensing and compute: cameras, lidar, radar, GNSS, IMUs, edge compute, embedded controllers.
  • Fluency in data analysis and test automation (Python, C/C++) sufficient to interrogate results yourself, not only to review them.
  • Experience running many parallel test activities across non-colocated teams, sites, and stakeholders.
  • Judgment about when a claim is proven and when it merely looks proven.

Skills

Required:Safety validationValidation architectureSystems engineeringV&V strategy and toolingHardware and functional safetyTeam leadershipDecision-grade reporting

Benefits

  • We are a startup, so we look for engineers with an appetite for agility. We do not compromise on safety and we still find ways to move extremely fast — the entire point of this role is that those two things are compatible when the evidence is good enough.
  • Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Reasonable Accommodations
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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