General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
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 group of roughly 20 people, each of us experts in our fields, working to bring autonomous vehicles to mining, agriculture, defense, and other industries quickly. We believe robotics and autonomy are at a tipping point, similar to how the PC industry reshaped the world in the 80s, and we need your help.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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 group of roughly 20 people, each of us experts in our fields, working to bring autonomous vehicles to mining, agriculture, defense, and other industries quickly. We believe robotics and autonomy are at a tipping point, similar to how the PC industry reshaped the world in the 80s, and we need your help. Founded by Stefan Seltz-Axmacher (Founder of Starsky Robotics) and Ilia Baranov (Clearpath Robotics, Amazon Astro), we're building the autonomy stack we wish we had at our previous companies.
As our Senior V&V Engineer, you'll own how we prove our autonomy stack is ready — from simulation to lab to field. You'll author the test plans, acceptance criteria, and integrator handoff procedures that turn engineering work into accepted, paid milestones across every vehicle we deliver.
- 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...
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