Autonomous Vehicle Test Specialist – San Francisco
About the role
Autonomous Vehicle Test Specialist responsible for executing defined test plans on autonomous industrial vehicles, collecting data, and reporting defects to enable rigorous, repeatable validation of autonomy software before customer deployment.
Responsibilities
- Execute defined test plans on autonomous vehicles, covering navigation, obstacle detection, e-stop, geofencing and teleop, across bringup, stabilization and handover.
- Run long-duration reliability and regression campaigns on each vehicle before customer release.
- Collect and organize test data, including rosbags, logs, video and run records, for every test session.
- File precise, reproducible defect reports with steps, conditions, frequency and supporting data.
- Reproduce field issues by isolating variables such as lighting, terrain, dust, load and weather, and confirm fixes on subsequent builds.
- Improve your own execution workflow, including setup, data capture and reporting. Feed gaps you find in a test plan back to the Applications Engineer who owns it.
- Follow site safety procedures and work alongside customer safety drivers and operators.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for on-vehicle testing.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on test execution on physical robots or autonomous systems, such as mobile robots, AVs, industrial robots or drones.
- Experience with long-duration reliability testing (MTBF, soak tests) and KPI tracking across builds.
- Disciplined documentation habits, with defect reports engineers can act on without follow-up.
- Comfortable with Linux and basic command-line tooling. Familiarity with ROS or rosbags is a plus.
- Willing to hold firm on a defect when engineering pushes back, and to bring the data that settles it.
Skills
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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