Staff Network Systems Engineer

Mytra•Brisbane, CA

20d•$210,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Staff Network Systems Engineer at Mytra, you will be the technical owner and directly responsible individual for the network subsystem included in Mytra’s robotic warehouse automation product. The network connects robots, on-premises compute infrastructure, operator interfaces, and supporting systems, and its performance is fundamental to the overall system. This is a product engineering role, not a traditional corporate IT networking role. You will define networking standards and own the subsystem from requirements and architecture through hardware selection, physical design, configuration, deployment, validation, and ongoing evolution. You will work across software, robotics, electrical, mechanical, systems, deployment, and operations teams to translate system requirements into a predictable network architecture for complex industrial environments. The role is hands-on and includes designing network topologies, evaluating switches and wireless access points, determining access point placement, partnering on network cabinet design, configuring equipment, establishing performance requirements and validation methods, and debugging difficult problems on live robotic systems. The role requires on-site presence at Mytra’s Brisbane, California headquarters. Compensation is based on experience and location. The posted salary range applies only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is $210,000–$230,000.

Requirements

Deep professional experience designing and deploying production network systems, with the technical depth to independently own a networking subsystem from architecture through deployment and validation.
Strong practical knowledge of Ethernet and IP networking, including switching, routing, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, QoS, redundancy, network segmentation, and network security.
Strong practical knowledge of Wi-Fi and RF fundamentals, including 802.11 behavior, channel planning, interference, roaming, antenna characteristics, coverage, capacity, and spectrum analysis.
Experience designing wireless networks for mobile clients where reliable roaming and handoff between access points are critical to system operation.
Experience designing networks for challenging physical or RF environments; relevant environments include robotics, AMRs/AGVs, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, manufacturing, logistics, ports, mining, and industrial IoT.
Ability to reason quantitatively about network performance, including latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput, availability, roaming behavior, congestion, and failure modes.
Experience selecting, configuring, evaluating, and qualifying commercial networking hardware based on system requirements.
Hands-on troubleshooting skills using packet capture, spectrum analysis, network telemetry, logging, and other diagnostic tools.
Comfort working directly with physical systems, including switches, access points, antennas, cabling, network cabinets, test equipment, robots, and deployed hardware.
Systems thinking and ability to reason across networking, software, robotics, electrical, mechanical, and physical infrastructure boundaries.
Ability to take ambiguous system-level problems, establish requirements, make engineering tradeoffs, and independently drive solutions through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing ownership.
Ability to operate as a Staff-level technical leader, establishing standards and technical direction in an area where the broader organization may lack deep domain expertise.
Ability to work on-site at the Brisbane, California headquarters.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing Wi-Fi networks for mobile robots, AGVs, AMRs, autonomous vehicles, or other continuously moving machines.
Experience with large industrial wireless deployments involving metal structures, machinery, inventory, physical obstructions, reflections, and changing environmental conditions.
Experience with industrial Ethernet, industrial networking equipment, or networking systems for manufacturing and automation environments.
Experience building automated network configuration, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, or zero-touch provisioning systems.
Experience developing automated network performance, qualification, regression, or acceptance testing.
Experience designing high-availability networks where degraded performance has direct operational consequences.
Experience with network security and segmentation for systems deployed in customer environments.
Experience partnering with electrical and mechanical engineers on integrated hardware systems, cabinets, enclosures, power, thermal management, cabling, and serviceability.
Experience working with networking equipment vendors on product evaluation, technical issues, roadmap planning, component lifecycle, and obsolescence.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical owner for Mytra’s product network and define and evolve the architecture supporting robots, on-premises compute, operator interfaces, and other system components.
Own wired and wireless network design, including topology, switching, routing, addressing, segmentation, redundancy, QoS, wireless coverage, channel planning, roaming, interference management, and capacity.
Translate robotics and application needs—including latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput, availability, roaming performance, and fault tolerance—into network requirements, architectures, and acceptance criteria.
Select, evaluate, qualify, and manage the lifecycle of networking hardware, including switches, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, antennas, cabling, optics, and related components.
Own wireless architecture and access point placement to provide predictable connectivity for moving robots in large industrial structures, including transitions between access points.
Partner with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering on network subsystem physical design, including cabinets, power, thermal management, cabling, serviceability, installation, and maintainability.
Define standard network configurations, deployment practices, and automation to reproduce validated architectures across customer installations.
Develop network qualification, performance, and acceptance tests covering wireless coverage, roaming, latency, packet loss, throughput, redundancy, capacity, and performance under representative robot fleet loads.
Establish observability, telemetry, diagnostics, and troubleshooting capabilities that help Engineering and Operations assess network health and identify failures or degradation.
Lead investigations of complex system-level issues involving robots, wireless connectivity, network infrastructure, on-premises compute, and application behavior.
Own the network subsystem technical roadmap as systems grow in physical scale, robot count, traffic volume, and deployment complexity.
Establish standards, documentation, commissioning procedures, troubleshooting tools, and engineering practices that enable other teams to deploy, operate, and support the network effectively.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity grants.
Fully subsidized employee and dependent medical coverage for baseline plans, dental, and vision.
401(k) plan.
Employer-subsidized life insurance.
Fully subsidized lunch and snacks at headquarters.
Generous paid time off and company-paid holidays, including a week over winter break.
Voluntary pet insurance, voluntary life insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity coverage.
Fully subsidized tax advisory services and education about equity.
Commuter benefits, including up to $150 monthly.
Onsite gym and showers at headquarters.