Bedrock Robotics
Head of Validation and Verification
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in test planning and experimental design for safety-critical autonomous or robotic systems.
- Education
- BS or advanced degree in engineering, physics, or another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads validation and verification for autonomous construction machines, defining safety evidence and readiness criteria for deployments across machine types, tasks, and job sites.
What you'll do
- Design safety metrics, scenario libraries, coverage models, and a reusable validation architecture.
- Own requirements decomposition, V&V strategy and infrastructure, and validation of hardware and safety-critical functions.
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary team; define decision-grade KPIs and report release readiness.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in test planning and experimental design for safety-critical autonomous or robotic systems.
- Track record building and leading multidisciplinary technical organizations across software, systems, hardware, test, and data science.
- Depth in sensing and compute, including cameras, lidar, radar, GNSS, IMUs, edge compute, and embedded controllers.
- Fluency in data analysis and test automation using Python and C/C++.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying driverless or unsupervised systems and holding readiness gates across multiple platforms; or scaling validation across fleets, sites, or hardware generations.
- Formal safety case or safety standards work; functional safety on custom hardware; heavy construction machine familiarity; or external technical contributions.
Tools
Python, C/C++, cameras, lidar, radar, GNSS, IMUs, edge compute
AI focus
Validation and safety readiness for autonomous construction machines.
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