Software Engineer, Verification & Validation

About the role

Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world. We are building risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems that address the most complex challenges in robotics, unlocking the full potential of embodied intelligence. We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-based architectures, and are charting a new course, with already-globally-deployed solutions delivering real-world results and rapidly improving models through real-field applications.

What You'll Get to Do

• Own End-to-End Robot Verification & Validation

• Design and execute verification and validation strategies for complete robotic systems, from individual capabilities through full autonomous missions
• Develop clear acceptance criteria, performance metrics, and test methodologies for new robot capabilities
• Validate system behavior across multiple robotic platforms, environments, and operating conditions
• Build repeatable qualification and regression processes that allow new capabilities to ship without compromising existing functionality
• Establish a clear understanding of what “deployment-ready” means and provide quantitative evidence that systems meet that bar.

• Build Scalable Robotics Test Infrastructure

• Develop automated test infrastructure spanning simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, lab testing, and full robot operation
• Create reusable test scenarios and evaluation frameworks that exercise autonomy under nominal, edge-case, and failure conditions
• Build tools for experiment execution, telemetry collection, automated analysis, visualization, and reporting
• Improve the reproducibility of robot testing so failures can be recreated, diagnosed, and verified efficiently
• Help move validation from individual one-off tests toward continuously running, scalable system evaluation

• Validate Real-World Robot Behavior

• Design tests that expose robots to the uncertainty and variability encountered in real deployments
• Exercise systems across changing terrain, obstacles, environmental conditions, sensor degradation, communication failures, compute limitations, and other realistic disturbances
• Evaluate not only whether a robot succeeds, but how reliably, safely, and consistently it behaves across repeated trials
• Identify performance boundaries and characterize where system behavior begins to degrade
• Work directly with physical robots in the lab and field to reproduce difficult system-level failures

• Turn Failures Into Engineering Signal

• Debug failures across autonomy, sensing, state estimation, planning, control, system integration, compute, networking, and hardware boundaries
• Use telemetry and experimental data to isolate root causes rather than simply identify symptoms
• Develop tooling and instrumentation that make complex robot behavior easier to understand
• Convert field failures and difficult-to-reproduce issues into deterministic regression tests whenever possible

Partner with subsystem owners to verify fixes and prevent recurrence

• Drive System Reliability and Release Readiness

• Partner closely with autonomy, robotics software, hardware, systems, and field teams throughout the development lifecycle
• Identify integration and reliability risks early and ensure they are represented in the validation process
• Build dashboards, scorecards, and automated evaluations that provide a clear view of system health and capability maturity
• Help define release gates based on measurable system performance rather than subjective readiness
• Continuously improve the V&V process as the autonomy stack, robot platforms, and deployment environments evolve