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:
The Onboard Integration team, as a part of Software Platform, works closely with teams across Glydways spanning Vehicle Hardware to Autonomy to provide the software foundation for running and controlling the robot on the road. Whether it’s streaming data from the latest sensors, controlling actuators on the vehicle, creating a custom OS and kernel, shipping a new ML framework, bringing a vehicle cabin to life with visuals and sounds, or writing tools and systems to support live track operations - the Onboard Integration team gets things done to keep the vehicle and other teams moving forward.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and test mission critical embedded application software for the Glydways platform.
- Write high performance code responsible for interfacing to vehicle systems and devices (DBW, controls, actuators, sensors, etc).
- Work with hardware, lower level, and higher level software teams to define system architectures.
- Decode, implement, and optimize communication with devices over various protocols, transports, middlewares, and connections.
- Integrate, test and validate resulting solutions using CI and HIL environments.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Expert level knowledge of C++ or C programming; other languages and skills also valuable.
- Experience with driver development for sensors and actuators and usage of test frameworks with Hardware in the Loop
- Experience developing on resource-constrained embedded hardware, including use of debugging tools (Segger, Lauterbach, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of communication protocols, from low level (CAN, SPI, UART) to high level (TCP/UDP)
- Experience with Linux operating systems, especially embedded environments.
- Experience with robotics middleware, such as ARK, LCM, ROS, or ROS2.
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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