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Glydways is building a next-generation autonomous transit system—carbon-neutral, interconnected pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. The company is reimagining public mobility to be accessible, affordable, and sustainable.
As Embedded Software Team Lead, you will lead the engineers responsible for the vehicle's low-level software platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you set technical direction, mentor team members, and remain close enough to the code and hardware to make sound engineering decisions. Your team will take embedded systems from board bring-up and prototype development through integration, validation, and production deployment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing embedded software team through hiring, onboarding, feedback, and career development
- Set team priorities, execution plans, and delivery milestones while creating an effective remote operating rhythm
- Define and evolve embedded software architecture across MCUs, sensors, custom boards, and main compute
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for real-time behavior, fault handling, diagnostics, performance, and maintainability
- Partner with systems, electrical, autonomy, platform, test, and vehicle-integration teams to resolve dependencies and tradeoffs
- Guide the design, bring-up, integration, and validation of production firmware for safety-critical vehicle systems
- Establish strong practices for code review, automated testing, release readiness, debugging, and safe multi-device deployment
- Represent embedded software in architecture reviews, safety activities, planning, and vehicle-readiness decisions
Required qualifications:
- Experience leading an embedded software team or serving as a technical lead responsible for execution, engineering quality, and team growth
- Strong mentoring, delegation, communication, and decision-making skills in a remote, cross-functional environment
- Expert-level C and/or C++ experience developing production embedded systems
- Experience with RTOS or embedded Linux environments, MCU bootloaders, device drivers, and board or SoC bring-up
- Strong understanding of embedded communications (SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, TCP, UDP)
- Experience optimizing resource-constrained systems and building automated unit, integration, and hardware/software tests
- Solid command of the embedded software life cycle, including version control, code review, CI, release management, and automated testing
- Experience developing safety-critical, mission-critical, or highly reliable systems, with familiarity with ISO 26262, EN 50716 or comparable processes
- A systems mindset focused on observability, diagnosability, graceful failure, and evidence-based release decisions
Nice-to-have experience includes automotive, transit, aerospace, medical, industrial, or robotics domains; automotive-grade safety MCUs (NXP S32K3, Infineon AURIX, TI TMS570); kernel internals; deterministic timing and networking; CAN tooling; electronics test equipment; and field operations support.
