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:
At Glydways, we design and operate high-capacity transit systems, leveraging autonomous vehicles on dedicated, closed guideways, to deliver a transportation solution where Safety is our most important core value.
In this role, you will:
Perform safety analysis at all levels of the Glydways Automated Transit System to identify design vulnerabilities and specify safety requirements for the Glydways system, transit network operations, and guideway infrastructure, that ensure the safety of passengers and operations.
Work with project stakeholders to analyze hazards specific to each project, assure compliance to local safety and regulatory standards, and support safety certification for new systems.
Work with cross-functional teams to play a critical role in the development of the automated transit technology, coordinate safety requirements across a complex system, and support definition of the system constraints.
This position requires excellent written and oral communication proficiency in conjunction with organization skills necessary to maintain focus and achieve consensus within diverse multi-disciplined teams.
This role is within the Safety, Quality and Compliance team, which is responsible for the development of safety cases for Glydways Transit Technology and Transit Network projects.
More specifically, your responsibilities in this role are highlighted as:
- Tailor system safety and safety certification plans to comply with project regulatory environment and project schedule;
- Perform hazard and risk analysis and define prevention and control measures in order to control safety risk;
- Perform operational hazard analysis for automated transit system projects including Egress analysis, Fire Life Safety, Maintenance hazard analysis and HMI;
- Perform Failure Modes, Effects and Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) of the System, Hardware and Software;
- Derive safety requirements for different levels of the engineering in system, hardware and software, including design constraints with respect to system performance and timing to ensure the faults and failures are properly mitigated;
- Perform RAM analysis and drive system requirements to assure compliance to project RAM targets;
- Identify, organize, track, and document all necessary Functional Safety activities within the project;
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience working in functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering
- Ability to perform safety analysis for complex designs and functions
- Ability to derive functional safety requirements from analytical and data models like FTA, FMEA
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience with Product Development Life Cycle (Systems, Hardware, Software)
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
- Working knowledge of relevant industry standards including one or more of IEC 61508, EN50126, EN50129, EN50128/EN50716, ASCE 21-21
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience developing safety cases for public transit projects
- Comfort with complex autonomous systems; experience with self-driving vehicles preferred
- Experience with RAM analysis methods and metrics
- Working knowledge with “state of the art” tools for physical modeling and simulation (ex. Jama, Jira, Confluence, Python, Medini, etc.)
- Experience with analytical methods (HARA, HAZOP, SOTIF, FME(C)A, FMEDA, FTA, Dependent Failure Analysis)
- Ability to demonstrate a proven track record of successfully working with large, complex teams in a results-driven environment
- Experience with Cybersecurity and Machine Learning is a plus
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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