Senior / Staff Systems Integration & Test Engineer

The posting, as Cyngn wrote it

About Cyngn, Inc.
Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self-driving industrial vehicles to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America. To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced people 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

• We are moving from one autonomous vehicle program to a family of them, and every one of those vehicles has to be proven safe, reliable and manufacturable before a customer drives it. Today our systems engineer writes the requirements and verification plans; nobody yet owns turning those into instrumented campaigns, reliability programs, regulatory evidence and acceptance tests, and then carrying that process to a contract manufacturer. That is this job. You will be the first dedicated test owner on the team, you will set up how we test, and you will grow the function as the product line grows.

What you'll do
Own system-level reliability and test strategy

• Turn vehicle requirements and V&V plans into test strategy, procedures and instrumented campaigns across EVT, DVT and PVT: drive and steer performance, brake and grade, duty cycle and thermal, environmental, ingress, vibration and HALT.
• Stand up the reliability program for a new vehicle: duty-cycle profiles, accelerated-life and HALT planning, failure tracking and corrective action, and the evidence that lets a program lock a design.
• Instrument prototype vehicles — CAN and sensor logging, data acquisition, power and thermal measurement — and turn the data into clear pass/fail and root-cause reports.

Own safety validation and regulatory evidence

• Derive safety test cases from the hazard analysis and verify every safety function on the vehicle: emergency-stop chains, safety-rated laser scanner fields and speed zones, deadman and pendant link-loss behavior, fault injection and recovery.
• Lead the regulatory test program for powered industrial trucks and their automation: UL 583 / UL 3100, ANSI/ITSDF B56.5, ISO 3691-4, ISO 13849 / IEC 61508 evidence with our functional-safety advisor, and EMC / electrical-safety pre-compliance with external labs.
• Be the technical owner in front of test labs and certifiers: plan the submissions, prepare the units and the documentation, and close findings.

Build the test infrastructure

• Design and build the fixtures and rigs the team runs every day: end-of-line functional tester, safety-function tester, harness continuity / hipot fixture, bench and hardware-in-the-loop regression with firmware, test-track procedures.
• Automate what repeats — logging, analysis, regression, reporting — so that testing gets faster every phase (Python, CAN tooling, Git).

Take the product to production and to the field

• Define and run the acceptance test procedure (A

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y vehicle test; prior UL 583 or ISO 3691-4 submissions.

• Reliability engineering background (HALT/HASS, life testing, DFMEA participation).
• HIL / bench regression with safety controllers; ROS or autonomy-stack log analysis (perception, localization).
• Production test: EOL / ATP design and hand-off to a contract manufacturer.
• Experience with 48 V battery-electric drive systems, motor controllers and contactors.

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 .