Head of Validation and Systems Engineering

Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world At Bedrock, we’re moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team is composed of industry veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we’re deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery across the country, accelerating project schedules of billion-dollar infrastructure projects and improving safety on job sites. Backed by $350M in funding, we’re working quickly to close the gap between America's surging demand for housing, data centers, manufacturing hubs, and the construction industry's growing labor shortage. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You’ll collaborate with construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can’t touch. If you're ready to apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful problems alongside a talented team—we'd love to have you join us. We are seeking a Head of Validation and Systems Engineering to lead validation, verification, and systems engineering as an integrated discipline. In this role, you will define the criteria for every unsupervised deployment and serve as the technical authority on readiness, participating in critical launch decisions. You will develop a validation architecture where adding a new machine or capability is an incremental, evidence-based process. Rather than inheriting old frameworks, you will leverage cutting-edge research and create new best practices for an emerging industry. Our machines already operate unsupervised at customer sites. Everything ahead—introducing more machine types, tackling new tasks each quarter, expanding to new sites—pushes the boundaries of the safety standards that have brought us this far.

Safety validation of the system. Design the metrics, scenario libraries, and architectural coverage that quantify end-to-end behavioral safety — and make them hold up as the machine set and task set expand. A validation architecture that generalizes. Decide what evidence is platform-independent and what must be re-established per machine, per task, per site. Turn the safety case into something composable instead of something rewritten. Systems engineering. Own requirements decomposition and traceability from mission-level intent through subsystems, and use validation findings to expose the gaps, ambiguities, and conflicts that feed back into design. V&V strategy and infrastructure. Choose the right instrument for each claim — log playback, closed-loop physics simulation, structured proving-ground testing, or on-site work — and specify the tooling and sim capability needed to make those instruments trustworthy across a growing fleet. Hardware and functional safety. Validate the sensing, compute, and actuation kit we install on customer machines, including functional-safety readiness of safety-critical paths, as that kit is ported onto new platforms. The org. Grow a team of software, systems, test, and hardware engineers plus data scientists, and scale it ahead of the machine count rather than behind it. Decision-grade reporting. Define the KPIs — verification coverage, defect trends, release readiness, system maturity — and turn dense test data into the small number of charts that let leadership, customers, and insurers make a call. What the first year looks like 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. Background BS or advanced degree in engineering, physics, or