Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

About Cyngn

Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company that deploys self-driving industrial vehicles to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America.

We are a small company with under 100 employees, operating with the energy of a startup. However, we're also publicly traded, which means our employees get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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