Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

Cyngn Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Life insurance

Company 401(k)

Flexible vacation policy

Sabbatical leave after five years

Daily lunches for in-office employees

Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

Job summary

Cyngn Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Lead based in Mountain View, California. In this role, you will architect and manage infrastructure for cloud and autonomous vehicle systems, driving initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux environments. Responsibilities include leading a team, implementing CI/CD practices, and optimizing cloud resources.

With a salary range of $198,000 to $225,000, this position highlights opportunities for career growth and excellent health benefits, including flexible vacation policies and a robust 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant DevOps/Infrastructure experience.
• Proven track record as a technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams.
• Strong experience with service mesh (Istio) and Helm/Kustomize.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives.
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor team members and foster a developer-friendly environment.

Skills

AWS services

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Kubernetes

Service Mesh (Istio)

Python programming

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

ROS/ROS2

Shell scripting

Ansible

Leadership and mentoring

Job description

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.

What you will do in this role

• 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
• Optimize system performance for real‑time processing of high‑bandwidth sensor data
• Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture and integration procedures

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/Kustomize
• Deep 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

Nice to haves

• Experience with autonomous vehicle systems
• Track record of optimizing GPU‑based ML infrastructure
• Experience with large‑scale IoT deployments
• Contributions to open‑source projects
• 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

Benefits & Perks

• 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
• Sabbatical leave opportunity after five years with the company
• Paid Parental Leave
• Daily lunches for in‑office employees
• Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

$198,000 - $225,000 a year

Please note salary range is for Bay Area residents - we're still accepting remote applicants!