Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer — Field Validation & Data

Polymath Robotics; San Francisco (CA); Ibrido; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Polymath Robotics is seeking a test specialist to validate physical robots and execute rigorous, repeatable test plans on autonomous vehicles in the field. You will capture clean data, report defects with precise steps and conditions, and drive improvements to testing workflows with the Applications Engineer who owns the plan.

Responsibilities include executing plans across bringup, stabilization and handover, running reliability campaigns, collecting rosbags, logs and video, and traveling to

Competenze

• 3+ years of hands-on test execution on physical robots or autonomous systems.
• 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.

Mansioni

• 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.

Conoscenze

Robotics testing

Reliability testing

Documentation discipline

Linux basics

Defect escalation

Strumenti

ROS/rosbags

Descrizione del lavoro

Polymath Robotics is seeking a test specialist to validate physical robots and execute rigorous, repeatable test plans on autonomous vehicles in the field. You will capture clean data, report defects with precise steps and conditions, and drive improvements to testing workflows with the Applications Engineer who owns the plan.

Responsibilities include executing plans across bringup, stabilization and handover, running reliability campaigns, collecting rosbags, logs and video, and traveling to