Polymath Robotics

We’re hiring a Commercial Solutions Associate to help our Sales Director turn complex deals into clear customer plans, polished materials, and organized execution. In this role, you will be the strategic & operational backbone behind the sales process, helping ensure customer conversations turn into concrete next steps, tailored proposals, and professional deliverables. You’ll work closely with our Sales Director to keep deals organized, responsive, and moving forward. Our customers are often evaluating how to transform longstanding industrial operations into something more automated, scalable, and data driven. That means they’re not just evaluating software; they are thinking through operational workflows, infrastructure constraints, safety requirements, rollout sequencing, ROI, and organizational change management all at once. Your job is to help make that transition feel understandable and actionable, all while making sure the customer feels heard. As Commercial Solutions Associate, you will: Create the decks, proposals, implementation plans, ROI narratives, and follow up materials that support active deals Sit in on customer calls, synthesize requirements and open questions, and coordinate across our internal teams as needed Make sure the commercial team is consistently prepared, organized, and putting its best foot forward Help our Sales Director prepare for events by reaching out to prospects in advance This role is ideal for someone with a consulting, business analyst, solutions, or sales enablement background who enjoys turning ambiguous conversations into structured, professional outputs. About You: 2-5 years of experience in Management Consulting, Sales Enablement, or other strategic domains Strong writer & clear communication style Able to distill customer conversations into clear needs, priorities, and deliverables Can make any slide look good Location & Travel In-Office 3 days per week in the Mission District, San Francisco Travel to Clients and Tradeshows as required (10-30% travel) Compensation: This role will be be paid salary + commission. The range listed includes the OTE.

Overview 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. Founded by Stefan Seltz-Axmacher (Founder of Starsky Robotics) and Ilia Baranov (Clearpath Robotics, Amazon Astro), we're building the autonomy stack we wish we had at our previous companies. As our Senior V&V Engineer, you'll own how we prove our autonomy stack is ready — from simulation to lab to field. You'll author the test plans, acceptance criteria, and integrator handoff procedures that turn engineering work into accepted, paid milestones across every vehicle we deliver. Responsibilities Own verification and validation architecture across the autonomy stack — author field test plans, simulation test cases, and acceptance test suites that scale across every vehicle of a given model. Write Integrator Acceptance Tests (IATs) — the structured procedures handed to integration partners to run before vehicles are delivered to Polymath. Define acceptance criteria and exit gates for each contract milestone, in close collaboration with engineering and program leads. Participate in design reviews to catch defects before they reach hardware — shift-left quality is the cheapest quality. Build test frameworks and plans that scale — write once, run many, with procedures clear enough that any trained executor produces reliable results. Perform hands-on testing for high-risk or novel functionality where engineering judgment is the bar. Qualifications 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. Track record of catching defects in design review, where they're cheapest to fix. Bonus: off-road autonomy experience, functional safety background, or experience building out a test function from scratch. Why Join Polymath Robotics? Mission that matters: The vehicles we automate operate in places no human should have to be — steel mills with molten slag, fertilizer plants thick with chemical dust, and similar environments. Removing people from such conditions is our mission. Collaborative environment: Work alongside a tight-knit group of ~25 people, each expert in their field, on collaborative projects. Hybrid workplace: Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model, with engineering based in our SF Mission office three days a week, giving a good balance of maker time and synchronization time. Open source advocacy: We strongly support open-source robotics efforts, and your work will be shareable and publishable wherever possible. Real impact in your first 90 days: You'll define the acceptance test framework for our two largest active contracts, ship your first IATs to integrator partners, and set the bar for how every vehicle we deliver gets accepted. Humor & passion: We might occasionally be a bunch of rosbags, but our passion and humor drive us to accelerate the r