# Senior Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer - San Francisco at Polymath Robotics

- Company: Polymath Robotics (YC S22)
- What the company does: General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.polymathrobotics.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/izf2VxL-senior-verification-validation-v-v-engineer-san-francisco
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/polymath-robotics-senior-verification-and-validation-v-and-v-engineer-san-franci/

## 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

Tags: Engineering