Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System
About this role
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
- Design and implement solutions for both cloud services 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
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.
Company at a glance
Automate your material handling and repetitive workflows with our Autonomous Tuggers and Forklifts. Our self-driving technology, DriveMod, is built on trusted, heavy-duty vehicles from legacy OEMs like Motrec and BYD to ensure that our self-driving industrial vehicles can do the most demanding industrial jobs, are familiar to operate and a breeze to maintain.
Studies have shown that our deployments reduce labor costs by 64% and have made teams 33% more productive. That’s like adding an additional team member for every three workers at your facility — instantly.
With DriveMod, Your Industrial Vehicles —
- Safely navigate sites without the need for special infrastructure.
- Leverage multiple, redundant, and intelligent layers of safety.
- Execute missions based on a variety of flexible, programmable skills — including "auto-unhitch".
- Be switched into manual mode and driven by a human.
- Transport goods to any on-site location, indoors and outdoors.
- Haul and tow thousands of pounds of heavy goods and cargo.
- Execute missions based on a variety of flexible, programmable options.
- Collect data and reveal suggestions for optimization.
- Be remotely managed and monitored via the FMS or on-vehicle display.
Top Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- FSA
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Concierge
- Life Insurance
- Short-term Disability Insurance
- Long-term Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible Vacation Policy
- Remote or Hybrid Work Opportunities
- Sabbatical Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- Daily Lunches
- Meal Allowance
- Tech Allowance
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