Deployment Engineer

Cyngn - Deployment Engineer

About Cyngn

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self-driving industrial vehicles like forklifts and 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.

Key Reasons to Join Cyngn

We are small and big. With under 100 employees, Cyngn operates with the energy of a startup. On the other hand, we are publicly traded. This means our employees not only work in close-knit teams with mentorship from company leaders-they also get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.

We build today and deploy tomorrow. Our autonomous vehicles are not just test concepts-theyre deployed to real clients right now. That means your work will have a tangible, visible impact.

We are not robots. We just develop them. Were a welcoming, diverse team of sharp thinkers and kind humans. Collaboration and trust drive our creative environment. At Cyngn, everyones perspective matters-and thats what powers our innovation.

About this Role

As a Deployment Engineer, you are the technical architect of a live customer site. You move beyond just fixing hardware to optimizing autonomy. You will lead the deployment lifecycle from the moment the hardware arrives until the customer signs off on a fully autonomous workflow. You will also be in charge of maintaining the fleet through tier 1 support and map maintenance.

You are the primary technical point of contact for the customer on-site for any issues and implementing their needs. You will work closely with the customer solutions team to prepare beforehand for the deployment and then on-site to ensure vehicles are installed at the customer site as requested.

As part of this, you will be a point of contact for the customer and a face of Cyngn to make sure they are comfortable using the vehicles. You will be the first to step in for needed fixes later and help with expansion and perfect use of the deployed fleets.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of autonomous robotic systems at customer facilities.
• Conduct site surveys and assess automation readiness, infrastructure constraints, and ODD requirements.
• Generate 3D and semantic maps and validate localization and navigation performance.
• Install, configure, calibrate, and commission robotic systems in live production environments.
• Train customer operators, maintenance teams, and site stakeholders to manage handoff to support.
• Work directly with the Customer Solutions Engineering team to take their designs in a handoff and perform a full implementation and betterment of these designs.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and define the final testing phase during the implementation, proving to the customer that the system meets all safety and throughput Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Perform the handoff and orientation of the vehicle with the customer as well as part of the handoff.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact during deployments and early operations.
• Work directly with customer IT teams to configure networks, resolve firewall and port issues, and ensure reliable connectivity.
• Run regular performance reviews with customers using data to drive operational improvements and adoption.
• Head the deployment of the routes on-site and coordinate with the customer to make sure these routes remain optimized over time.
• Analyze robot logs, sensor data, and system metrics using tools such as Foxglove, RViz, RQT_Bag, and PlotJuggler.
• Diagnose hardware, software, perception, and infrastructure issues in the field.
• Own incident resolution across Tier 1-3 support, ensuring fast Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) and clear root-cause documentation.
• Monitor fleet health and KPIs using Grafana and internal dashboards.
• Provide structured feedback from the field to Product Engineering, QA, and Perception teams.
• Collaborate with OEM partners to integrate robotics hardware and software into new vehicle platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable deployment playbooks, checklists, and Jira-based workflows.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 3-5 years in robotics, autonomous systems, or industrial automation. Experience as a Field Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, Integration Engineer, or similar is highly preferred.
• Advanced Software Skills:
• Linux & ROS Proficiency
• Deep comfort with ROS tools, rviz, rosbag, tf for visualizing and debugging vehicle thoughts.
• Professionalism: Exceptional communication skills. You must be able to explain why the robot stopped to a floor manager in a way that builds trust rather than confusion.
• Physical Requirements:
• Ability to work in industrial environments, warehouses, yards, and travel up to 50-70% of the time.
• Deployment skills with robotics, robotics deployment, calibration, and troubleshooting.
• Network configuration and customer IT environments.
• Experience working directly at customer sites in manufacturing, logistics, or industrial environments.
• Ability to analyze logs, metrics, and sensor data to diagnose complex system issues.
• Comfortable with travel and working independently in the field.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, or drones.
• Familiarity with 3D LiDAR systems, e.g., Hesai Ouster.
• Experience with mapping, localization, and perception validation.
• Exposure to Grafana, Jira, TestRail, Docker, and Git.
• Strong documentation and process-building mindset.

Benefits & Perks

• Health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA.
• Health and Dependent Daycare.
• Employee Assistance Program and Health Concierge.
• Life Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Cyngn funds 100% of premiums.
• Company 401k.
• 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.

Salary Range

• $90,000 - $112,000 per year.

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