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’re 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 aren’t just test concepts—they’re deployed to real clients right now. That means your work will have a tangible, visible impact.
We aren’t robots. We just develop them.
We’re a welcoming, diverse team of sharp thinkers and kind humans. Collaboration and trust drive our creative environment. At Cyngn, everyone’s perspective matters—and that’s what powers our innovation.
About this role:
Industrial organizations are facing critical challenges with labor shortages, costly safety incidents, and the ever-increasing demand for efficiency. At Cyngn, we are at the forefront of solving these problems by developing and deploying AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology for industrial fleets.
To accelerate this mission and scale our impact, we are looking for a Principal Engineering Program Manager, reporting directly to the Vice President of Product and Technology. In this role, you will act as the on-site leader and directly responsible owner for our most critical mobile robotics development programs. You will serve as a direct extension of the product and technology leadership, responsible for translating our strategic intent into world-class execution.
What You'll Achieve
Your mission is to drive our complex, cross-functional programs from concept through to successful launch. Success in this role means ensuring Cyngn can develop products and deliver customer value more efficiently, transparently, and predictably. Within your first year, you will:
- Take full ownership of a major development program, becoming the go-to leader for its execution.
- Materially improve the predictability of our product release timelines.
- Implement and refine a development process that scales across hardware and software teams, becoming the standard for our organization.