Senior DevOps Lead, Cyngn
Cloud & Autonomous System
$180-240k
+ Stock options
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
Be an early applicant
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-240k
+ Stock options
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help industrial organizations become more efficient, productive, and safe, addressing challenges such as labor shortages, safety incidents, and increased eCommerce demand.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant DevOps/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/KustomizeDeep 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, GitHub Actions)
- Strong system architecture and design skills
- Excellence in technical documentation
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities
- Contributions to open-source projects
Desirable
- Experience with autonomous vehicle systems
- Track record of optimizing GPU-based ML infrastructure
- Experience with large-scale IoT deployments
- 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 Greengrass
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Lead at Cyngn, you will play a vital role in architecting and managing infrastructure across cloud and autonomous vehicle systems
- This position combines traditional cloud DevOps leadership with specialized expertise in robotics and autonomous systems infrastructure
- You will bridge the gap between cloud operations and edge computing while leading a team of DevOps 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 both cloud services and autonomous vehicle systems
- Establish and maintain DevOps 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
- Design and implement solutions for both cloud services and autonomous vehicle systems
- Optimize system performance for real-time processing of high-bandwidth sensor data
- Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture and integration procedures
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. The excitement of the fully automatic Tesla may have meant other AVs were overshadowed. It’s often not realised how many vehicles, from forklifts to stock chasers, are now operable in certain capacities without direct driver control.
Cyngn is a well-established company providing autonomous vehicle solutions. The company prides itself on a team of knowledgeable engineers and software engineers that make its DriveMod product easily unified with companies' current workflows, claiming “if a human driver can do it, so can DriveMod”.
Cyngn has raised significant funding since its founding in 2009, which reflects not only the quality of it's product, but the trust the industry has in it as well. It has made a number of impressive collaborations and partnerships in recent years; such as signing with US Continental to provide self-driving stock chasers, as well as working alongside Jtec Industries to bring a sophisticated cart system to its autonomous vehicle deployments, which opens new revenue opportunities for the company.
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 benefits
- Health benefits (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)
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Remote or hybrid work opportunities
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- Sabbatical leave opportunity after 5 years with the company
- Paid Parental Leave
- Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages
- Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees
Company values
- Focus on Impact - Focus on great results while looking to evolve processes that make us more efficient. Exhibit a bias toward action and avoid decision-making paralysis
- Display Curiosity - Learn rapidly and eagerly. Seek to understand our strategy, market, customers, and technology. Contribute effectively outside of your area of specialty
- Communicate Proactively - Listen well so you can fully understand. Debate and discuss with respect for your coworkers independent of their roles within the team. Maintain a calm and professional approach even in stressful situations
- Apply Good Judgement - Make sound decisions despite ambiguity. Think strategically about how decisions affect the broader team, and can clearly articulate what you are (and are not) trying to do. Strive to identify root causes, and get beyond just treating symptoms. Prioritise what must be done well now, and what can be improved later
- Demonstrate Selflessness - Be egoless when searching for the best ideas. Make time to help colleagues. Share information openly and proactively
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Articles
Leadership
Lior Tal
(CEO)Previously founded Snaptu and was Director of International Growth and Partnerships at Facebook.
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