Senior Robotics Systems Software Engineer

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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.

About the role
As a Senior Robotics Systems Software Engineer on Cyngn’s Autonomy team , you will develop, integrate, and deploy software across the autonomous driving stack for our industrial vehicles.
This role is ideal for a strong robotics generalist who enjoys working across subsystem boundaries. Depending on the problem, you may contribute to behavior and decision-making, motion planning, controls, localization, perception interfaces, simulation, or vehicle integration.
You will work closely with engineers across autonomy, vehicle infrastructure, hardware, QA, and deployment to turn robotics algorithms into reliable production systems operating on autonomous tuggers and forklifts at customer sites.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software for autonomous industrial vehicles across areas including behavior and decision-making, motion planning, controls, and vehicle systems.
• Write and maintain production-quality C++ and Python software running on Cyngn’s autonomous vehicle platforms.
• Develop and integrate algorithms for navigation, trajectory generation, vehicle control, obstacle handling, and autonomous behaviors.
• Integrate autonomy software with sensors, drive-by-wire systems, vehicle hardware, and other onboard software components.
• Bring up, validate, and debug software on real vehicles, tracing issues across autonomy modules, middleware, hardware interfaces, and vehicle behavior.
• Develop simulation scenarios, testing infrastructure, metrics, and regression tests to validate autonomy behavior before deployment.
• Investigate field issues and edge cases, reproduce failures, identify root causes, and implement robust production solutions.
• Support deployment and validation of autonomous vehicles at customer facilities, translating real-world observations into improvements across the autonomy stack.
• Collaborate closely with engineers in Planning, Controls, Perception, Localization, Vehicle Infrastructure, Hardware, QA, and Operations.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and continuous improvement of Cyngn’s autonomy software.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing software for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other autonomous systems.
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• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, drive-by-wire systems, or embedded/real-time components.
• Experience developing tooling, metrics, and CI/CD infrastructure for robotic systems.
• Familiarity with Linux, Git, Docker, CMake, and modern software development workflows.
• Experience taking robotics functionality from prototype through validation and production deployment.

Benefits & Perks

• Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) through Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, and Guardian, with multiple plan tiers to choose from
• Ancillary benefits including accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans (Voya)
• Company-paid basic life insurance, plus voluntary (supplemental) life for you and your dependents
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• HSA and FSA (Health & Dependent Daycare)
• Employee Assistance Program
• 1:1 Health Concierge
• Company 401(k)
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible PTO policy
• Paid Parental Leave
• Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages

Equal Opportunity Employer
Cyngn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, promotion, discipline, and termination.
If you require accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please let us know and we will work with you to provide reasonable accommodation