Build & Automation Engineer

Zendar • Berkeley, CA

1d • $130,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Zendar is seeking an experienced Build & Automation Engineer to join their DevOps team. This role involves supporting all aspects of infrastructure, including IT, CI/CD, builds and testing, data uploads, and Cloud interactions. The engineer will work closely with the Senior Infra Engineer, offering significant influence in shaping DevOps practices and ample learning opportunities. The ideal candidate is comfortable managing multiple responsibilities, enjoys collaborating with other engineers, and has strong opinions on prioritization and implementation. Zendar is building perception for physical AI, enabling robots to understand and interact with their environments. Their unique RF perception technology, which fuses radar and vision data, forms the backbone of their next-generation foundation models for robotics and autonomous mobility. The company operates globally with offices in Berkeley, Lindau (Germany), and Paris (France), and is well-funded by leading venture capital firms with established industry partnerships.

Requirements

• Ability to work from the office in Berkeley, CA, at least from Tuesday to Thursday.
• Engineering mindset and approach to DevOps.
• 2+ years in an ON-PREM role as an Infrastructure engineer, DevOps, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with build orchestration technologies and dependency management tools.
• Comfort with containerization (Docker).
• Proficiency with Python and Bash.
• Comfort in managing IT in a small company (device management, user management, maintaining office network).
• Proactive approach to solving problems and willingness to take on new challenges.
• Fast learner who brings practical, goal-oriented solutions and strong critical thinking.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Ansible.
• Experience with security topics in a DevOps role.
• Basic familiarity with UI design for building dashboards and internal tools.
• A track record of excelling in ambiguous or evolving roles.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and adapt CI runners and CI pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
• Manage dependencies and deploy updates to the build system, with a focus on CMake and Python dependency management toolchains.
• Handle provisioning, maintenance, and purchasing of workstation and laptop hardware/software.
• Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot the office network environment.
• Support workflows both on-prem and in the cloud, evaluating infrastructure changes.
• Implement and manage an on-prem docker registry (Harbor) for storing local builds.
• Optimize build and test runs, potentially by parallelizing testing across different CI runners.
• Enhance the monitoring system to report infrastructure health, including the status of in-house apps for data synchronization.
• Investigate and implement code coverage enforcement for future PRs.
• Evaluate and potentially transition from GitHub Actions to a different job scheduling tool as workflows grow in complexity.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from 130,000-160,000 annually depending on experience
• Performance based Bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Equity
• Hybrid work model: in office 3 days per week from Tuesday to Thursday
• Daily catered lunch (when working out of the Berkeley, CA office)
• Stocked fridge (when working out of the Berkeley, CA office)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees