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:
You’ll join the autonomy motion team responsible for routing, planning, and control across a fleet of autonomous vehicles. We’re looking for an engineer to lead the design and development of our map system architecture, tools, and workflows. This role works cross-functionally with teams focused on infrastructure, localization, track testing, and simulation.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design and build map infrastructure, including databases, APIs, and internal tools.
- Develop scalable systems for large-scale map management, enabling frequent updates and validation.
- Implement tooling for both automated and manual map creation, ensuring precision and reliability for autonomy use.
- Build GUIs and visualization tools that allow users to view, inspect, and edit map data..
- Define map validation criteria and develop integrity-checking systems to detect and respond to map quality issues.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 5+ years of experience in C++ software development.
- Strong foundation in 3DOF spatial transformations, quaternions, and vehicle kinematics.
- Demonstrated experience building GUIs or visualization tools for complex data.
- Ownership mindset with a track record of driving projects from design through delivery.
How to Apply
Please submit:
- A brief write-up describing your past experience in each of the following areas:
- (a) 3DOF transformations and kinematics
- (b) GUI and visualization development
- (c) End-to-end project ownership
- Your resume
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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What We Do
Glydways, Inc. is an American transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, CA. The company specializes in the design, manufacture, installation and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium and extremely high capacity needs.
Founded in 2016 by engineer and entrepreneur Mark Seeger, the company was started with the goal of providing affordable mobility for communities across the world. This goal is founded in the belief that access to affordable housing, employment, education and care lead to economic and social prosperity, and the key to this equity is mobility for as many people as possible.
Lead by Gokul Hemmady who serves as CEO, the company’s core objectives are to provide a 24/7 mobility service solution that is environmentally net-negative in terms of greenhouse gas production (GHG), and, inherently profitable. GHG-negative is achieved through the invention and use of power-efficient technologies to reduce the watt-hours-per-person-per-unit-distance traveled, and, photovoltaics embedded into the infrastructure. Economic sustainability is achieved by designing for operational costs that are inherently lower than revenue collected when selling a ride. The key comes from decoupling the unit-costs from the utilization of the system, something that is not possible with existing public/mass transportation systems. By being financially sustainable, Glydways relieves municipalities of the vast annual subsidies required to operate existing solutions, which are inherently unprofitable and thereby a fiscal burden to public budgets. Further, the Glydways business model allows for private capitalization of entire systems.
Glydways provides the highest capacity, at the lowest cost, with the best user experience, and the lowest greenhouse gas footprint of any mobility solution, providing a personal, on-demand, and point-to-point journey with no stops between origin and destination
