Senior Mechanical Engineer

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

• We are searching for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. You will own mechanical design and release for our autonomous industrial vehicles and the equipment they tow — structures, drivetrain and drive-unit integration, mechanisms, enclosures and sheet metal — from concept through engineering, design and production validation builds to production release. The vehicle engineering team is small and growing, and this hire adds a second mechanical design stream so that we can develop new vehicle programs in parallel with the ones we are launching.
• You are a generalist who has shipped a vehicle or a large electromechanical machine. You have sized motors, gearboxes and brakes against real load cases, designed the weldment they bolt to, released the drawings, argued with the fab shop about tolerances, and then built and broken the first prototype yourself. Robotics, automotive, off-highway or material handling — the domain matters less than the habit of owning the whole mechanical problem, from the first sketch to the production change order.
• You are drawn to a small team where the design you release in one quarter is driving on a test lot the next. You treat the environment the machine lives in — sealing, drainage, thermal, dust and rain — as design inputs, not afterthoughts. You are comfortable making trade-offs with incomplete information, writing them down, and revisiting them when the test data comes back.
  
  You treat electrical, firmware and autonomy engineers as peers, and you think about harness routing, sensor sight-lines and service access while the frame is still a sketch.
• You move fast but release cleanly: GD&T, tolerance stacks and DFM feedback are part of how you design, not a step afterwards. You are hands‑on in the lab, direct in design reviews, and you mentor by review and by example.

What you'll do

• Own the mechanical technical specification, design, integration and release of vehicle systems: frame and structure, mounting and integration of supplier drive units and axles, wheel ends, braking, hitching and tire packaging, with structural analysis for industrial tow loads and duty cycles.
• Lead drive-system and long‑lead component trade studies with electrical and firmware (supplier drive units, torque / grade / brake performance, battery packaging) and drive those decisions to purchase orders on the program schedule.
• Design product variants as one platform — common structures and a single bill of materials with…