Head of Validation and Systems Engineering

A V&V framework and safety case structure that spans multiple machine types and an expanding task set, and that engineering, customers, and insurers all recognize as rigorous.

A scenario and coverage model built for the machines and tasks we have not shipped yet, not just the ones we have.

Readiness criteria that generalize — so the second platform, and the tenth, clear the bar faster than the first did without clearing a lower one.

A team that outlives any single launch.

BS or advanced degree in engineering, physics, or another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

10+ years in test planning and experimental design for safety-critical autonomous or robotic systems, with a bias toward safety and repeatability.

Track record building and leading multidisciplinary technical organizations — software, systems, hardware, test, and data science under one roof.

Depth in sensing and compute: cameras, lidar, radar, GNSS, IMUs, edge compute, embedded controllers.

Fluency in data analysis and test automation (Python, C/C++) sufficient to interrogate results yourself, not only to review them.

Experience running many parallel test activities across non-colocated teams, sites, and stakeholders.

Judgment about when a claim is proven and when it merely looks proven.

You have taken a driverless or unsupervised system through to real deployment and personally held the readiness gate — and then had to do it again for a second platform.

You have scaled a validation program across a heterogeneous fleet, multiple sites, or successive hardware generations.

You have authored or led a formal safety case, or contributed to safety standards work (UL 4600, ISO 26262, ISO 21448, or off-road equivalents).

Functional safety experience on vertically integrated or custom hardware.

Familiarity with heavy construction machines — excavators, articulated dump trucks, dozers, wheel loaders, motor graders.

A record of external technical contribution: publications, keynotes, standards bodies, or research leadership. We want this role visible in the field, and we will support that.

We are a startup, so we look for engineers with an appetite for agility. We do not compromise on safety and we still find ways to move extremely fast — the entire point of this role is that those two things are compatible when the evidence is good enough.

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