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 Network Platform team consists of a group of Network, RF, and software engineers responsible for the end-to-end communication system design for Glydways. The team owns the embedded systems that are responsible for providing secure, reliable, and diverse vehicle communications. We work together with the Software, Vehicle Hardware, and the Autonomy engineering teams to produce cutting edge products that unlock the future of transit systems. As an embedded engineer in the Network Platform team, you will be designing the systems that integrate technologies such as 5G cellular, WiFi, Ultra-wide band, GNSS, automotive Ethernet, and more.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, prototype, build, and test production embedded firmware.
- Evaluate, implement, test, and optimize applications on Linux and RTOS.
- Collaborate across multiple disciplines to deliver quality code, debug complex problems, prioritize and get things done with a high level of efficiency and urgency.
- Evaluate, design, and implement both existing and custom communication protocols between devices and between compute modules.
- Work with autonomy, hardware engineers, and software throughout the lifecycle of the vehicle - from device bring-up, to software deploy.
- Work with test engineers and platform engineers in developing testing frameworks at the unit, integration, and system levels.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Expert level knowledge of C or C++ programming; other languages and skills also valuable.
- Knowledge of OS internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, storage)
- Good debugging skills with an ability to work cross-functionally
- Good understanding of Linux and/or RTOS fundamentals, Board Support Pkgs, kernel configuration, device driver interfaces, debugging tools etc.
- Strong knowledge of communication protocols, from low level (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN) to high level (TCP/UDP)
- Experience with bootloaders
- Experience with security concepts such as SecureBoot and secure storage
- Experience with time synchronization protocols such as NTP and PTP
- Experience deploying firmware both remotely and over-the-air
- Familiarity with electronics test equipment and hardware debugging (multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc)
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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