Cyngn
Senior Systems Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$181kDetected 86 days ago
Systems EngineeringRoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringPower ElectronicsCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Actuation and drive systems
- Own requirements decomposition, allocation, and traceability across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software domains.
- Develop system-level verification and validation plans, including test strategies, acceptance criteria, and pass/fail definitions aligned with the systems engineering V-model.
- Lead technical trade studies, risk assessments, and architectural decisions with a focus on safety, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Act as the systems engineering point of contact for industrial safety certification, ensuring system requirements and test plans support compliance.
- Collaborate with product management, safety engineering, hardware, firmware, software, and test teams to ensure aligned execution.
- Drive cross-functional design reviews, requirements reviews, and system readiness milestones.
- Support integration, debugging, and validation of vehicle and robotic systems during development and deployment phases.
- Support compliance efforts related to ANSI B56 standards for industrial trucks and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
- Contribute to safety-related documentation, including requirements, test evidence, and certification support artifacts.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering for complex electro-mechanical systems (robotics, vehicles, industrial automation, autonomy).
- Strong experience translating product-level requirements into detailed engineering specifications and verification plans.
- Working knowledge of motor systems and actuation, including:
- Experience defining interfaces between sensors, embedded controllers, power electronics, and higher-level compute.
- Solid understanding of industrial safety standards, particularly ANSI B56 and related AMR / industrial vehicle safety frameworks.
- Hands-on familiarity with low-level sensors and feedback systems, including:
- Encoders (incremental, absolute)
- Angle and position sensors
- Temperature sensors
- Current and voltage sensing
- Motor commutation concepts (e.g., BLDC, PMSM)
- Feedback and control considerations
- Fault detection and protection
Nice to have
- 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.
Compensation
- $160k-$181k
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Key reasons to join Cyngn: We are small and big.
- We are small and big.
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