Senior Robotics Systems Software Engineer

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.

As a Senior Robotics Systems Software Engineer on Cyngn’s Autonomy team , you will develop, integrate, and deploy software across the autonomous driving stack for our industrial vehicles.

This role is ideal for a strong robotics generalist who enjoys working across subsystem boundaries. Depending on the problem, you may contribute to behavior and decision-making, motion planning, controls, localization, perception interfaces, simulation, or vehicle integration.

You will work closely with engineers across autonomy, vehicle infrastructure, hardware, QA, and deployment to turn robotics algorithms into reliable production systems operating on autonomous tuggers and forklifts at customer sites.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software for autonomous industrial vehicles across areas including behavior and decision-making, motion planning, controls, and vehicle systems.
• Write and maintain production-quality C++ and Python software running on Cyngn’s autonomous vehicle platforms.
• Develop and integrate algorithms for navigation, trajectory generation, vehicle control, obstacle handling, and autonomous behaviors.
• Integrate autonomy software with sensors, drive‑by‑wire systems, vehicle hardware, and other onboard software components.
• Bring up, validate, and debug software on real vehicles, tracing issues across autonomy modules, middleware, hardware interfaces, and vehicle behavior.
• Develop simulation scenarios, testing infrastructure, metrics, and regression tests to validate autonomy behavior before deployment.
• Investigate field issues and edge cases, reproduce failures, identify root causes, and implement robust production solutions.
• Support deployment and validation of autonomous vehicles at customer facilities, translating real‑world observations into improvements across the autonomy stack.
• Collaborate closely with engineers in Planning, Controls, Perception, Localization, Vehicle Infrastructure, Hardware, QA, and Operations.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and continuous improvement of Cyngn’s autonomy software.

Priorities: 3-6-12 Month Goals

First 90 Days

• Build a working understanding of Cyngn’s autonomy architecture, simulation environment, vehicle platforms, development workflow, and deployment process.
• Partner with engineers across autonomy, infrastructure, hardware, QA, and operations to trace representative vehicle behaviors, build working…