Senior Vehicle Infrastructure Engineer in Mountain View, California at Cyngn, Inc.

About Cyngn, Inc.

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self-driving industrial vehicles -specifically autonomous tuggers - to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America. To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced leaders to join us and move this field forward. If you like to build, tinker, and create with a team of trusted and passionate colleagues, then Cyngn is the place for you. Key reasons to join Cyngn:

We are small and big.

With under 100 employees, Cyngn operates with the energy of a startup. On the other hand, we’re publicly traded. This means our employees not only work in close-knit teams with mentorship from company leaders—they also get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.

We build today and deploy tomorrow.

Our autonomous vehicles aren’t just test concepts—they’re deployed to real clients right now. That means your work will have a tangible, visible impact.

We aren’t robots. We just develop them.

We’re a welcoming, diverse team of sharp thinkers and kind humans. Collaboration and trust drive our creative environment. At Cyngn, everyone’s perspective matters—and that’s what powers our innovation.

About the role

Vehicle Infrastructure (VI) is the critical layer bridging our autonomy stack and the physical machines it powers. As a Senior Vehicle Infrastructure Engineer, you are the architect of reliability and scale, owning the OS, provisioning, and release paths that ensure our autonomous fleet operates predictably in the field. This role goes far beyond maintenance; you will design the platform that prevents failures by design, collaborating with our DevOps team to orchestrate CI/CD pipelines, while taking full ownership of their operational impact and quality, evolving our OTA update strategies, and building the automation that makes our vehicle state reproducible, resilient, and ready for global deployment.This position requires a multi-talented engineer who thrives where software intersects with the physical world. You won’t just maintain the status quo; you will architect our autonomous platform’s reliability. This requires a systems-first mindset that navigates seamlessly across engineering boundaries—debugging bare-metal firmware and raw sensor streams in the vehicle bay, optimizing the underlying OS and container runtime, and architecting the infrastructure that bridges our fleet to the cloud. We are looking for an engineer who treats every vehicle-level issue as a design challenge, transforming manual interventions into automated solutions that scale from the hardware level up to our global delivery pipelines.

What you'll do

Platform Architecture & Systems Engineering

Architect and harden the core vehicle operating environment, including kernel selection, secure boot protocols, and system-level health monitoringDesign end-to-end provisioning frameworks that allow for zero-touch deployment of both vehicle fleets and developer environmentsDevelop containerized runtime strategies that optimize resource isolation across heterogeneous hardwareImplement sophisticated software distribution and versioning strategies to ensure safe upgrade and rollback paths for mission-critical systems

CI/CD and Engineering Productivity

Collaborate with DevOps to implement and scale global CI/CD infrastructure, taking full ownership of pipeline throughput, build quality, and automated unit/integration testingPartner with DevOps to drive the software release process, taking ownership of release-candidate integrity, version pinning, and go/no-go readinessCollaborate with DevOps to architect OTA update pipelines, taking full ownership of deployment success, verification logic, and rollback strategies across remote, industrial fleets

Hardware-Software Integration & Diagnostics

Act as the final authority on system-level failures, diagnosing complex issues across the OS, network, sensors, and firmware boundariesBridge the gap between software and physical hardware by debugging on real hardware, using knowledge of sensors and firmware, to find the root cause of issues.Build custom diagnostic tooling and runbooks that empower the wider engineering team to self-solve infrastructure bottlenecks

Technical Leadership & Strategy

Bring rigorous project management to infrastructure work, prioritizing long-term platform stability over short-term fixesMentor the engineering organization on systems best practices, deployment safety, and modern infrastructure-as-code principlesChampion a culture of automation and reliability, ensuring our autonomous platform scales ahead of our fleet growth

Qualifications

Substantial hands-on experience running Linux in production — typically 5+ years, weighted on depth and judgment rather than the numberStrong Linux system administration: systemd, networking, storage, users and permissions, package management, kernel and driver management, and real debugging ability when a machine misbehavesDevOps and CI/CD experience where you built and owned pipelines rather than only consuming themStrong scripting in Bash and PythonWilling and eager to work hands-on with real hardware — physical vehicles, raw sensor data, bare-metal debugging, cabling and connectors, CAN trafficExcellent communication and a genuine willingness to help others; front-line support is a core part of the jobStrong leadership and organizational skills; proactive rather than reactiveExperience working with and writing modern, maintainable C++ code.Strong communicator, comfortable working closely with people both in-office and remoteBased in or willing to relocate to the Mountain View, CA area; this role is on-site with regular hands-on vehicle workBonus QualificationsStrong proficiency in writing and maintaining large, modern C++ code.AWS (IoT/Greengrass, S3, EC2, IAM/SSO, Lambda) and infrastructure-as-codeShipping OTA updates to IoT devices or autonomous vehicles, including staged rollout, verification, and rollbackDeep Ubuntu/Debian experience, including package building and distribution, and managing OS upgrades across a fleet you can't afford to brickROS/ROS2 and C++ literacy to read the stack you support, reproduce a failure, and file or fix an actionable bugCAN bus, firmware updates, wiring, or general electrical troubleshootingYocto or other embedded Linux build systems; ARM targetsContainers beyond the basics: rootless Docker, Podman, image registries, GPU-enabled containersConfiguration management (Ansible or similar) and secret managementSupporting a fleet of autonomous vehicles, robots, or IoT devices at scaleFamiliarity with QA processes and test management toolingSupporting hardware in the field, at customer sites, or over low-connectivity linksExperience leading a small teamBenefits & PerksHealth benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA and FSA (Health & Dependent Daycare), Employee Assistance Program, 1:1 Health Concierge)Life, Short-term and long-term disability insurance (Cyngn funds 100% of premiums)Company 401(k)Commuter BenefitsFlexible vacation policyRemote or hybrid work opportunitiesSabbatical leave opportunity after 5 years with the companyPaid Parental LeaveDaily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beveragesMonthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

$190,000 - $205,000 a year

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.