Senior DevOps Lead: Cloud & Autonomous Systems

Cyngn Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Ancillary benefits

Life insurance

Disability insurance

HSA and FSA

Employee Assistance Program

Health Concierge

401(k)

Commuter Benefits

Flexible PTO

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

Cyngn, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior DevOps Lead to architect and manage cloud and autonomous vehicle infrastructure. You will bridge cloud operations and edge computing, leading DevOps engineers to build scalable, reliable platforms for our autonomous vehicle systems.

The role requires deep AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ROS/ROS2, and GPU ML infra experience, plus strong Python scripting and CI/CD delivery. Join a small, dynamic team delivering real-world autonomous solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps/Infrastructure experience.
• Technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams.
• Advanced expertise in AWS services, IaC (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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux environments.
• Design and implement scalable solutions for 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 across infrastructure.
• Design and implement solutions for cloud 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.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Istio

ROS/ROS2

Python

Shell scripting

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Linux kernel

CUDA

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

Cyngn, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior DevOps Lead to architect and manage cloud and autonomous vehicle infrastructure. You will bridge cloud operations and edge computing, leading DevOps engineers to build scalable, reliable platforms for our autonomous vehicle systems.

The role requires deep AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ROS/ROS2, and GPU ML infra experience, plus strong Python scripting and CI/CD delivery. Join a small, dynamic team delivering real-world autonomous solutions.