Who we are:
Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.
Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.
The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.
With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.
Meet the team:
As a part of the larger Autonomy Team, the Autonomy Integration group is responsible for the high level design of the overall system (both online and offline). The team is composed of C++ experts who are comfortable around the whole autonomy stack. We empower other autonomy groups (through tooling and design), develop the simulator (making sure it meets the needs of the org), maintain core functionality on-vehicle and in the dispatch system and support drive testing of the Glydways vehicles. The Autonomy Architecture team interfaces with many other groups across the org, including hardware and systems teams.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop interfaces between autonomy software components, sensors and other hardware modules, and the remote dispatch system.
- Design, implement, and maintain simulation capabilities and metrics.
- Maintain core onboard functionality around fault handling, vehicle communication, and top-level pipelines.
- Work with hardware teams to develop low level onboard software interfaces.
- Work onboard and offline to fix bugs across the stack.
- Develop tooling to improve logged data processing (including visualization).
- Help conduct on track testing of Glydways vehicles.
- Participate in design review, planning, and code review.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- BS/MS in software related field, or 5 years of professional experience in software.
- Strong experience with C++, including build systems (cmake/bazel), unit testing frameworks (gtest), and the C++20 standard library.
- Experience designing and developing autonomous systems (including simulation, device drivers, visualization, etc).
- Experience developing and debugging on Linux operating systems.
Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Glydways San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, California, United States, 94080
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