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Salary: USD 135,000 - 200,000 / annual
Glydways is building a groundbreaking autonomous transit system—carbon-neutral, interconnected pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. The company is reimagining public transit to be more accessible, affordable, and sustainable.
The Test Engineering team is responsible for proving that the integrated autonomous transit system is safe, reliable, and ready for real-world operation. This role focuses on turning requirements and operational scenarios into repeatable system tests, including feature validation tests and End-of-Line (EOL) tests that confirm vehicles are ready before release, shipment, or deployment.
As a Senior/Staff Verification & Validation Engineer, you will develop rigorous, repeatable tests for integrated autonomous transit behavior and production acceptance. You will translate product goals, safety needs, operational concepts, and system requirements into concrete test scenarios, executable procedures, measurable pass/fail criteria, and clear technical conclusions. You will work on scenario-based testing for integrated system behavior as well as EOL and post-rework testing for vehicles, subsystems, and configured assets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop system-level test scenarios, procedures, and acceptance criteria for autonomous transit features, operational workflows, degraded modes, and safety-relevant behaviors
- Create and maintain repeatable EOL, production acceptance, and post-rework test procedures for vehicles, subsystems, and configured assets
- Execute and oversee tests across simulation, lab, vehicle, test-track, production, and project-site environments
- Ensure test cases are traceable to requirements, operational scenarios, safety needs, and customer acceptance criteria
- Define clear pass/fail criteria and capture results with configuration, logs, observations, and evidence for future review
- Analyze logs, telemetry, dashboards, and field observations to determine test outcomes and support root-cause analysis
- Track test failures from discovery through closure, including issue classification, impact assessment, and verification of fixes
- Improve test procedures, checklists, data capture, dashboards, and reporting workflows for scalability and efficiency
- Support readiness reviews by preparing evidence on configuration status, prerequisite completion, approved procedures, and open issue disposition
- Collaborate closely with systems engineering, safety, autonomy, embedded software, vehicle engineering, manufacturing, quality, operations, and deployment teams
- Build lightweight tools, scripts, dashboards, or test utilities when existing tools are insufficient
More senior candidates will be expected to own larger test suites, improve test strategy and process, mentor others, and represent test evidence in readiness and release discussions. This role includes hands-on work at Glydways test facilities, vehicle facilities, and project deployment sites. Regular travel or on-site presence should be expected for major test campaigns, production acceptance activities, commissioning, and safety-critical release demonstrations.
Ideal candidates can turn ambiguity into clarity, have strong follow-through, think in systems, communicate clearly and proactively, are hands-on and data-driven, enjoy building practical tools and improving processes, and learn quickly.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
- 4+ years of experience in system test, systems integration, product validation, verification and validation, manufacturing test, autonomous systems, robotics, transportation, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial automation, or other complex hardware/software systems
- Experience developing or executing system-level, integration-level, production acceptance, or End-of-Line (EOL) tests, including scenario design, test procedures, acceptance criteria, execution, analysis, and reporting
- Strong understanding of requirements-based testing, test coverage, evidence quality, configuration control, and disciplined defect management
- Ability to analyze logs, telemetry, test data, and system behavior using tools such as Python, dashboards, log viewers, notebooks, or equivalent analysis environments
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical risk, test outcomes, and blockers clearly
Preferred:
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, automated transit systems, railway systems, robotics, aerospace, automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, or other safety-critical mobility platforms
- Experience developing production acceptance, End-of-Line (EOL), commissioning, or post-rework verification tests for complex electromechanical systems
- Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop testing, software-in-the-loop testing, simulation frameworks, automated regression frameworks, or continuous integration-driven test execution
- Experience with requirements, issue-tracking, or lifecycle tools such as Jama, DOORS, Polarion, Systems Modeling Language, Jira, GitHub, or equivalent tools
- Experience building reusable test automation, data-analysis tools, dashboards, report-generation workflows, or other practical engineering tools that made a test program more effective
- Ability to read, modify, or write C/C++ for embedded systems, test harnesses, or low-level debugging
