Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

Senior Dev Ops Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

Cyngn, Inc.

- Mountain View, California, United States

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly‑traded autonomous technology company that deploys self‑driving industrial vehicles, specifically autonomous tuggers, to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America.

We are a small, close‑knit startup‑scale team that is also publicly traded, giving employees access to equity liquidity. Our vehicles are deployed to real clients, giving you tangible impact, and we value collaboration, trust, and diversity.

As a Senior Dev Ops Lead, you will architect and manage infrastructure across cloud and autonomous vehicle systems, bridging the gap between cloud operations and edge computing. You will lead a team of Dev Ops engineers to build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure for our autonomous vehicle platform.

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux environments
• Design and implement scalable solutions for cloud services and autonomous vehicle systems
• Establish and maintain Dev Ops best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
• Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response strategies
• Optimize performance and cost efficiency of cloud and edge computing resources
• Mentor team members and foster a developer‑friendly environment
• Manage on‑call rotations and incident response processes
• Architect solutions for processing and storing large‑scale vehicle telemetry data
• Lead security initiatives and compliance efforts across infrastructure
• Optimize system performance for real‑time processing of high‑bandwidth sensor data
• Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture and integration procedures

• 10+ years of relevant Dev Ops/infrastructure experience
• Proven track record as a technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams
• Advanced expertise in AWS services, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and Kubernetes
• Strong experience with service mesh (Istio) and Helm/Kustomize
• Deep understanding of ROS/ROS2 and Linux kernel configurations
• Experience with GPU configurations and ML infrastructure
• Expertise in ARM and NVIDIA CUDA platform configurations
• Strong programming skills in Python and shell scripting
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible)
• Expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions)
• Strong system architecture and design skills
• Excellence in technical documentation
• Outstanding problem‑solving abilities
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities

• Experience with autonomous vehicle systems
• Track record of optimizing GPU‑based ML infrastructure
• Experience with large‑scale IoT deployments
• Contributions to open‑source projects
• Experience with real‑time systems and low‑latency requirements
• Expertise in security implementations including SSO, IdP, and AWS Cognito
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory and container registry management
• Proficiency in AWS IoT Green grass
• Experience with container resource management on edge devices
• Understanding of CPU affinity and priority scheduling
• Track record of implementing cost optimization strategies
• Experience with scaling systems both horizontally and vertically

• 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)
• Flexible vacation policy
• Remote or hybrid work opportunities
• Sabbatical leave after 5 years
• Daily lunches for in‑office employees with fully stocked kitchen, snacks, and beverages
• Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

$198,000 - $225,000 a year