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. Backed by a16z.
About the role
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What they're looking for
- Experience with autonomous mobile robots, industrial vehicles, or material handling equipment
- Prior involvement in safety certification, audits, or compliance testing for industrial or robotic systems
- Familiarity with system integration, bring-up, and hardware validation testing
- Experience working in fast-paced product development environments with cross-functional teams
More about this role
About the role
- Our Vehicles & Hardware team develops the physical systems that power Cyngn’s autonomous products, with a strong focus on real-world deployment, safety certification, and operational robustness.
- Cyngn is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead system definition and architecture for autonomous vehicle and robotics platforms. This role is a senior, hands-on systems position responsible for converting high-level product requirements (L0/L1 user stories and product intent) into detailed, testable engineering specifications, architectures, and verification plans using a structured V-model systems engineering approach.
- This is a generalist systems role spanning sensors, compute, power distribution, actuation, and safety-critical behaviors. The ideal candidate has deep experience in industrial robotics or vehicle systems, understands safety certification expectations, and can bridge product intent with disciplined engineering execution.
What you'll do
- Translate L0/L1 product requirements and user stories into complete, unambiguous, and testable system and subsystem specifications (L2+).
- Define system architectures and interfaces for autonomous vehicle and...
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