Senior Electrical Engineer

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 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

We are searching for a Senior Electrical Engineer to own the electrical systems of our autonomous industrial vehicles, from 48 V power distribution and motor drives to the compute platform, its power supplies and its radios. Our vehicles are complex autonomous mobile machines: multi-kilowatt traction and steering, safety-rated stop chains, LIDARs and cameras on high-speed links, and an x86 or ARM compute platform with cellular, Wi-Fi and GNSS connectivity, all carried on harnesses that must survive years of industrial duty. You will take the next vehicle from system requirements through electrical architecture, detailed design and harness release, then through bench and vehicle bring-up, validation and compliance testing, and into production. Along the way you will help define the common controller platform that our future vehicles will share.

What you’ll do

• Turn high-level vehicle requirements from systems engineering and architecture into detailed electrical design documents: architecture, power and signal budgets, interface control documents, schematics, harness drawings, design reviews and test plans
• Own the electrical architecture of a new vehicle: battery and sub-100 V DC distribution for multi-motor traction and steering, motor inverter selection and control interfaces, contactors and fusing, DC/DC conversion, charging, and the safety-rated stop and interlock chain
• Engineer the compute subsystem: power supplies, sequencing and protection for x86 and ARM compute modules and their peripherals; thermal and power budgets; routing requirements for high-speed interfaces up to PCIe Gen 4 and for multi-gigabit sensor and Ethernet links, working with an external layout partner where needed
• Own antenna and radio integration for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE / 5G and active GNSS / GPS, including antenna placement on a metal vehicle, RF cabling, grounding and co-existence
• Design harnesses end to end for a complex autonomous mobile robot: schematics, wire sizing, sealed connector selection, routing and strain relief, harness drawings and formboards; run the supplier RFQ and first article for production harnesses
• Own the bench-top electrical twin and lead vehicle power-on and bring-up with the firmware and controls engineers; drive issues to root cause across electrical, firmware and mechanical
• Support validation and compliance testing: unintentional-emissions testing to FCC Part 15 Class B, EMC immunity pre-compliance, and electrical-safety evidence for industrial vehicles (the ISO 13849, ISO 3691-4 and UL 3100 class of standards), plus hazard analysis and FMEA. Prepare the units, act as the technical owner at the lab, and close the findings in the design
• Design the electrical test fixtures for production (harness continuity and hipot, end-of-line functional test, safety-function test) and support contract-manufacturer bring-up; release BOMs and drawings through the PLM system with second-source and domestic-sourcing constraints in mind

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering and 7+ years designing electrical systems for vehicles, robots or industrial machines
• Has taken at least one product through the full lifecycle (requirements, design, design verification and validation, compliance, production release) to shipment, and managed the details along the way
• Comfortable turning high-level requirements from systems engineers and architects into detailed design documents: architecture, interface definitions, schematics, drawings and test plans
• Vehicle electrical design: sub-100 V DC battery distribution, motor inverters and their control interfaces, contactors and fusing, DC/DC conversion, safety-rated I/O
• High-speed compute architecture: has engineered power supplies, sequencing and board-level integration for x86 and ARM compute modules
• Familiar with routing requirements for high-speed interfaces up to PCIe Gen 4 and for multi-gigabit sensor and Ethernet links
• Familiar with antenna design and integration, and with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE / 5G and active GNSS / GPS systems on vehicles
• Detailed knowledge of wire harnessing and connector requirements for complex AMRs: sealed connector families, routing, drawings and production hand-off
• Has supported compliance testing, including unintentional-emissions testing to FCC Part 15 Class B and EMC immunity; working knowledge of the functional-safety and electrical-safety standards for industrial vehicles (ISO 13849, ISO 3691-4, UL 3100)
• Fluent in CAN / CANopen, with hands-on bring-up and debug experience (oscilloscope, CAN tools, safe practices around high-current DC)
• Familiarity with the design release process using PLM tools (Arena or similar); strong documentation and communication

Bonus Qualifications

• Robotics or autonomous-vehicle experience (AMRs, AGVs, field robots)
• Has led a compute or controller board program with an external layout partner (a Staff-level signal)
• Full EMC test campaigns at an accredited lab; UL or CE machinery submissions
• Rugged HMI, tablet or display integration; wireless remote-control hardware
• 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
• Company 401(k)
• Flexible PTO policy
• Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages

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.

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

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