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 Systems team works closely with internal and external stakeholders to both architect and verify complex functional, logical, hardware and software systems. The Systems team is under the parent function of managing Engineering for systems, functional safety, security and verification & validation.
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Glydways Systems Engineer, you will become an expert in the Glydways system, understand and analyze the full system outline and collaborate broadly across the organization to share your expertise and knowledge with others.
- Decompose the top-level system functions, behaviors and features into a set of requirements
- Contribute to the overall system architecture and design by driving alignment on proposed requirements, conducting trade studies and analyzing data.
- Design verification and validation methods that test functionality at the integrated system level.
- Derive requirements for different levels of the engineering in system, hardware and software, including design constraints with respect to system performance and budget analysis.
- Work with cross-functional teams to play a critical role in complex system understanding, and definition of the system constraints.
- Work with the Safety Engineering team to satisfy the safety case for Glydways Self Driving Technology.
- Identify, plan, organize, track, and document all necessary system engineering activities.
- Analyze the potential failures of various systems and diagnose the impact of these on the overall product.
- Communicate early and often with partner teams, document the requirements and decisions, hold reviews.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Relevant STEM field.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience working in systems engineering, architecture development, functional safety, or system safety
- Ability to demonstrate a proven track record of successfully working with large, complex teams in a results oriented environment.
- Strong foundation in system engineering fundamentals such as requirements definition, verification and validation methods.
- Ability to perform analyses with various methods for complex designs and functions
- Excellent written and oral communication proficiency in conjunction with organization skills necessary to achieve consensus within diverse multi-disciplined teams.
- (Bonus) Proficiency in Python or another scripting language.
- (Bonus) Experience with safety-critical systems or familiarity with safety analysis techniques (FTA, FMEA, etc.)
- (Bonus) Experience with test environments like HIL or SIL.
- (Bonus) Experience in autonomous vehicle development
- (Bonus) Experience in transit system development.
- (Bonus) Experience in a variety of systems engineering tool sets
- (Bonus) Proven track record of delivering safety critical products to market.
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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