Staff Systems Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

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, our Systems team is responsible for architecting and verifying complex functional, logical, hardware, and software systems. We work across autonomy, vehicle hardware, safety, infrastructure, and operations to ensure the Glydways system is safe, reliable, and a great product experience. Sitting at the intersection of product vision and engineering execution, we own system requirements, the architecture of safety functions, vehicle definition, and infrastructure guidelines.

As a Staff Systems Engineer – GATN (Glydways Automated Transit Network), you will be the technical owner for how new features and system changes show up on the guideway. You will:

• Design, create requirements, and demonstrate novel features required of our public transit system.

• Judge the health of safety functions and guardrails using logs, metrics, and on‑track behavior.

• Define and execute integration test plans for new GATN capabilities using data-driven methods.

• Drive issues to closure so that the system can operate safely and hit its availability targets.

You’ll work hands‑on at the track (e.g., GDF2 and project sites), in logs and dashboards, and in tools to turn “we need this to work on the track” into concrete scenarios, parameters, and decisions. We prefer to have this position on-site 3 or 4 days a week at Richmond, CA, but will consider remote for the right candidate.

This role is ideal for someone who has shipped complex hardware/software systems, enjoys integration and test work, and is comfortable taming chaos in a multi‑team environment.

We’re building the entire transit solution! It will operate safely and reliably, and we have to build