Full Stack Software 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
- If you’re excited by software at the intersection of real-time systems, physical AI, digital twins, and customer-facing product, we’d love to talk
- 2–4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong production experience with:
- Python (backend services, APIs, data workflows)
- TypeScript or JavaScript (frontend)
- You’ve shipped and supported user-facing web applications (not just internal tools)
- You’re comfortable building APIs and working with databases (SQL preferred; NoSQL is a plus)
- You communicate clearly, take ownership, and bring a low-ego, collaborative approach
- You care about software that’s reliable in production, not just “works locally.”
Desirable
- Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, SSE, streaming updates, pub/sub
- Event-driven systems / messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, etc
- Experience with telemetry-heavy or operational products: IoT, robotics, autonomy, fleet/dispatch, industrial software
- Experience building analytics features: reporting, aggregations, operational metrics, customer-facing insights
- Familiarity with scaling patterns: caching, background jobs, rate limiting, performance tuning
- Strong habits using AI coding assistants/agents responsibly (verification, testing, high-signal reviews)
- Exposure to physical AI simulation tooling (e.g., NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim) or similar environments
What the job involves
- Cyngn is building a cloud platform that helps customers monitor, manage, and optimize fleets of autonomous industrial vehicles in real time. As a Full Stack Engineer (Mid–Senior), you’ll ship features end-to-end—from Python backend services to TypeScript/JavaScript frontends—on a small, high-impact team
- You’ll partner closely with Staff/Principal Engineers while owning meaningful parts of the product
- Build customer-facing web experiences: fleet dashboards, live views/maps, alerts, admin tools, and reporting using TypeScript/JavaScript
- Build and evolve backend services in Python that power fleet operations, integrations, data ingestion, and analytics
- Design and implement reliable APIs (REST and/or gRPC) that are well-documented and easy to integrate with customer systems
- Deliver real-time features (live vehicle state, events, notifications, operator workflows) using WebSockets and event-driven patterns
- Support “physical AI” workflows by connecting cloud software to autonomy/robotics systems—telemetry pipelines, command-and-control surfaces, and operational tooling that interacts with vehicles in the real world
- Use modern AI tools and agents to move faster and raise quality (and help build customer-facing copilot experiences where it makes sense)
- Contribute to digital-twin simulation + validation loops (where applicable): support workflows that use simulation to test behaviors, validate releases, and reproduce field issues
- Raise engineering quality through testing, code reviews, observability, and pragmatic reliability/performance improvements
- Own meaningful chunks of the product: shape solutions, make tradeoffs, and drive work to completion
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.
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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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