Robotics Integration Engineer, Cyngn
$153-171k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
Open for applications
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$153-171k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To address significant challenges facing industrial organizations today, such as labor shortages and costly safety incidents.
Role
Who you are
- 2–4+ years in robotics integration, autonomy, embedded/systems engineering, or adjacent experience working close to hardware
- Strong programming ability in:
- C++ (systems/performance-critical code)
- Python (tooling, automation, integration glue)
- Shell scripting (Linux workflows, debugging, automation)
- Solid experience with Linux (Ubuntu), including building, packaging, and running systems in the field
- Comfort with sensor + hardware bring-up (drivers, calibration workflows, time sync concepts, logs, reproducible setup)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/UDP, bandwidth/latency tradeoffs, basic multicast, and debugging with common tools)
- Strong debugging instincts: you can form a hypothesis, gather evidence, and drive to root cause across layers
- Clear communicator with good documentation habits and a low-ego, team-first approach
- Experience with ROS 2 (nodes, launch, TF2, bags, QoS) or other robotics middleware frameworks
Desirable
- Experience with CAN tooling (SocketCAN, DBC workflows) and/or ECU/firmware update flows
- Experience with containerized deployments (e.g., Docker) or production deployment patterns on vehicles
- Familiarity with profiling tools (perf, top/htop, valgrind, gdb) and performance tuning
- Exposure to OTA / device management systems (e.g., AWS Greengrass) or fleet rollout practices
- Understanding of safety-oriented development practices (fault handling, watchdogs, redundancy concepts)
- Experience with simulation environments (e.g., NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or similar) for integration and regression testing
- CI/CD experience for robotics stacks (automated builds/tests, hardware-in-the-loop or log replay workflows)
What the job involves
- Cyngn builds autonomous industrial vehicle solutions that run in real warehouses and outdoor yards—not demos
- As a Robotics Integration Engineer (Mid–Junior), you’ll help bring autonomy to life by integrating hardware + sensors + vehicle software into a reliable, production-ready stack
- This is a hands-on role working with Linux systems, real sensors, and real vehicles—partnering closely with senior robotics, autonomy, and platform engineers to ship systems that are stable, debuggable, and performant in industrial environments
- You'll integrate and validate sensors such as LiDAR, cameras, IMU/GNSS, and other vehicle hardware
- Own mission-critical system pieces: state management, health monitoring, diagnostics, logging, and fleet-ready tooling
- Work on vehicle communications including CAN bus (interfaces, message handling, reliability, basic ECU/firmware touchpoints)
- Build and maintain the glue that makes the stack work: drivers, bring-up scripts, config management, calibration workflows, and time synchronization basics
- Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware + software + networking (timing drift, dropped frames, driver issues, flaky connections, bandwidth constraints)
- Profile and optimize performance for real-time-ish workloads (high-bandwidth sensor streams, CPU/memory bottlenecks, startup stability)
- Help create and maintain integration tests and validation workflows (reproducible tests, automated checks, regression catches, log replay)
- Collaborate across perception, localization, controls, and product teams to integrate systems cleanly and ship improvements quickly
- Write clear documentation for integration procedures, system configuration, and “how to debug this when it breaks.”
Our take
From the switch from manual driving to automatic in the 40s, and now the rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the past 5-10 years, cars have come a long way. While much of the attention has focused on consumer-facing self-driving cars, it's often overlooked how many industrial vehicles are now capable of operating, at least in part, without direct driver control.
Cyngn is a well-established company providing autonomous vehicles solutions for these environments. Its DriveMod product is designed to integrate with existing workflows, allowing businesses to introduce automation without major infrastructure changes. Rather than focusing purely on capability, the company emphasizes practical deployment, aiming to deliver systems that can reliably handle real-world industrial tasks.
Cyngn has raised significant funding since its founding in 2009, reflecting both the strength of its technology and continued investor confidence. Alongside partnerships with companies like US Continental and Jtec Industries, the business is still actively securing new capital, with a recent $8.65M raise aimed at supporting further development and scaling its autonomous solutions,. With DriveMod already deployed across vehicles like tuggers and forklifts, Cyngn is positioning itself to capitalize on growing demand from industrial and logistics operators looking to address labor shortages and improve safety through automation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2015
$85m
SERIES C
Dec 2013
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $115m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Lior Tal
(CEO)Lior joined Cyngn in 2016 as COO, moving into the role of CEO that same year. Previously, he spent over 5 years at Facebook as a Director of Growth & Partnerships. He also founded Snaptu where he served as the company's VP of Business Development for nearly 4 years.
Natalie Russell
(CFO)Natalie joined Cyngn in 2023 as the Director of Accounting, she then became the Interim CFO in January 2025 and became CFO later that same year. Previously, she was a Technical Accounting Manager at SOAProjects. She also spent over 5 years at EY in various Audit roles.
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