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:
We are looking for a highly motivated research intern with a strong background in machine learning to join our ML Perception team and apply your expertise to real-world multi agent autonomous driving and infrastructure challenges to help Glydcars see. In this role, you will focus on multimodal efficient deep learning for safety critical systems with built in redundancy and robustness. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, you will develop innovative models and algorithms to enhance our perception stack.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Implement state-of-the-art onboard multimodal multitask ML perception models, and finetune them to improve performance
- Develop custom adaptations (such as layers, loss functions, etc.) to improve performance on our datasetResearch and development in various areas, including multiview sensor fusion for redundancy, robustness, and safety critical operation; and scene understanding with a focus on anomaly detection.
- Design and perform experiments, and share and present findings, potentially as a peer-reviewed publication.
- Work with multimodal (camera, lidar, radar) datasets from a multiagent autonomous system
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Masters / PhD graduating within 12 months of internship completion
- Strong programming skills (Modern C++ and/or Python)
- Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
- Strong problem-solving and research skills
- Candidates with experience in early fusion models and/or semantic segmentation models are preferred
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
