Infrastructure Engineer

About Zendar:

Autonomous vehicles need to be able to understand the world around them not only in bright daylight, but also at night, when it is foggy or rainy, or when the sun is shining right in your face. At Zendar, we make this possible by developing the highest-resolution, most information-rich radar in the world.

What makes radar powerful - its long wavelength which makes it robust to all sorts of weather and lighting conditions - also makes it really challenging to work with. We have used our deep understanding of radar physics to build radar perception models that bring a rich and complete understanding of the environment around the AV from free space to object detections to road structure.

Check out what our technology can do here - all produced with only radar information, no camera and no lidar!

Zendar has a diverse and dynamic team of hardware, machine learning, signal processing and software engineers with a deep background in sensing technology. We have a global team of 60, distributed across our sites in Berkeley, Lindau (Germany), and Paris.

Zendar is backed by Tier-1 VCs, has raised more than $50M in funding and has established strong partnerships with industry leaders.

Although AI is central to our technology, our hiring process is intentionally human: every resume is reviewed by a real person.

To support our growing team, we’re looking for a Infrastructure Engineer
. Dev Ops in a small company entails wearing many hats, supporting all the infrastructure, including IT, CI/CD, builds and testing, data uploads and Cloud interactions (Cloud support itself is handled by our MLOps team)!

You will be the second engineer on the Dev Ops team, working with our Senior Infra Engineer, which means that you will not only have a lot of influence in shaping all of Dev Ops at Zendar, but also have a lot of learning opportunities and support. This role is perfect for someone who is comfortable managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously, enjoys interacting frequently with other engineers, and is opinionated about what to prioritize and how to build things.

• IT:
  • Handle provisioning, maintenance, and purchasing of workstation and laptop hardware/software.
  • Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot the office network environment.
• CI/CD and Infrastructure:
  • Maintain and adapt CI runners and CI pipelines using Git Hub Actions
    , ensuring they remain efficient and scalable as we grow.
• Build System and Dependency Management Support:
  • Work alongside the engineering team to manage dependencies and deploy updates to the build system, particularly focusing on CMake and Python dependency management tool chains.

• Ability to work from the office in Berkeley, CA, at least from Tuesday to Thursday.
• Engineering mindset and approach to Dev Ops - you want to design smart solutions, not only follow instructions.
• 2+ years in Infrastructure engineering, Dev Ops or similar
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Git Hub Actions and a solid understanding of deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with build orchestration technologies and dependency management tools, comfort with containerization (
  Docker
  ).
• Proficiency with Python and Bash.
• Comfort in managing IT in a small company (device management, user management and maintaining office network).
• A proactive approach to solving problems and willingness to take on new challenges as they arise.
• A fast learner who brings practical, goal-oriented solutions and strong critical thinking to everyday challenges.

• Knowledge of Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with dealing with security topics in a Dev Ops role.
• Basic familiarity with UI design for building dashboards and internal tools.
• A track record of excelling in ambiguous or evolving roles.

• Being originally an on-prem company, we have faced infrastructure challenges with the onset of ML trainings requiring Cloud environment and infrastructure. We are now actively supporting workflows both on-prem and in cloud, evaluating pros and cons of any infrastructure change. One example of an on-going project which will help us to have better parity between those two workflows…