Senior Vehicle Infrastructure 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.

We aren’t robots. We just develop them.

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 Dev Ops 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 monitoring
• Design end-to-end provisioning frameworks that allow for zero-touch deployment of both vehicle fleets and developer environments
• Develop containerized runtime strategies that optimize resource isolation across heterogeneous hardware
• Implement sophisticated software distribution and versioning strategies to ensure safe upgrade and rollback paths for mission-critical systems

CI/CD and Engineering Productivity

• Collaborate with Dev Ops to implement and scale global CI/CD infrastructure, taking full ownership of pipeline throughput, build quality, and automated unit/integration testing
• Partner with Dev Ops to drive the software release process, taking ownership of release-candidate integrity, version pinning, and go/no-go readiness
• Collaborate with Dev Ops 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 boundaries
• Bridge 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 fixes
• Mentor the engineering organization on systems best practices, deployment safety, and…