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Glydways is building an autonomous transit network—a groundbreaking system of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. The company is reimagining public transit to be more accessible, affordable, and sustainable.
As a Senior Systems Engineer for the Glydways Automated Transit Network (GATN), you will be the technical owner for how new features and system changes are deployed and validated on the guideway. You will design novel features required of the public transit system, create requirements, and demonstrate them end-to-end. You'll judge the health of safety functions and guardrails by analyzing logs, metrics, and on-track behavior. You will define and execute integration test plans for new GATN capabilities using data-driven methods, and drive issues to closure to ensure the system operates safely and meets availability targets.
Key responsibilities include owning feature landing for GATN by designing, planning, and executing integration of new system capabilities on the track (product features including reduced headways, fail-operational behaviors, ticket kiosk flows, dispatch behaviors, and new ATP functions). You'll define and run integration scenarios that exercise safety functions, throughput behaviors, and operational workflows across vehicles, wayside, and dispatch/operations control center. You'll improve regression and mileage test suites that gate releases, including test selection, ordering, and coverage criteria. You'll review logs, metrics, and track behavior to assess the health of safety functions such as separation assurance, route obstruction, and emergency stop behaviors, recommending parameter or design changes as needed. You'll partner with Systems Engineering, Autonomy, Vehicle SI, and Operations teams to define entry/exit criteria for on-track testing, release candidates, and feature go-live decisions.
You'll work hands-on at the track (e.g., GDF2 and project sites), in logs and dashboards, and in tools to translate "we need this to work on the track" into concrete scenarios, parameters, and decisions. This role is ideal for someone who has shipped complex hardware/software systems, enjoys integration and test work, and is comfortable managing complexity in a multi-team environment. The position is hybrid, preferring 3–4 days per week on-site in Richmond, CA, but remote arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
