Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Remote or hybrid work

Sabbatical

Parental leave

Daily lunches for in-office

Tech allowances for remote

Job summary

Cyngn, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior DevOps Lead to architect and manage infrastructure across cloud and autonomous vehicle systems. You will lead a DevOps team, build scalable, secure platforms, and connect cloud operations with edge robotics for our autonomous vehicle stack.

Expect hands-on IaC with Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Strong leadership and mentoring are essential to drive performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps/infrastructure experience.
• Lead in platform or infrastructure teams.
• Advanced AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infra across AWS/ROS/Linux.
• Design scalable cloud and edge solutions for autonomous systems.
• Implement CI/CD, IaC, and observability practices.
• Drive incident response and cost optimization for edge computing.
• Mentor engineers and manage on-call rotations.
• Document system architecture and procedures.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

Architecture

Problem solving

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Helm

Kustomize

ROS/ROS2

Linux

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CUDA

Job description

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’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.

About The Role

• 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’ll Do

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Bonus Qualifications

• 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
• Remote or hybrid work opportunities
• 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

$198,000 - $225,000 a year

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.