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# Autonomy Software Engineer, Integration at Glydways

- **Company:** Glydways
- **Location:** Richmond, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/glydways/jobs/5161245007

## Job description

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:

As a part of the larger Autonomy Team, the Autonomy Integration group is responsible for the high level design of the overall system (both online and offline). The team is composed of C++ experts who are comfortable around the whole autonomy stack. We empower other autonomy groups (through tooling and design), develop the simulator (making sure it meets the needs of the org), maintain core functionality on-vehicle, add features to the vehicle safety system, and support drive testing of the Glydways vehicles. The Autonomy Integration team interfaces with many other groups across the org, including hardware and systems teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Develop interfaces between autonomy software components, hardware modules, and the track infrastructure systems.
- Design, implement, and maintain simulation capabilities and metrics.
- Maintain core onboard functionality around fault handling, vehicle communication, and top-level pipelines.
- Work with the onboard integration team to tie hardware to the autonomy stack.
- Work onboard and offline to fix bugs across the stack.
- Write safety-rated requirements and code for the vehicle safety system.
- Develop tooling to improve logged data processing (including visualization).
- Conduct and support on track testing of Glydways vehicles.
- Participate in design review, planning, and code review.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- BS/MS in a software or robotics related field.
- Experience with modern C++, including object oriented design, design patterns, build systems, unit testing, and the C++17 standard library.
- Experience designing and developing autonomous systems (including simulation, communications, coordination, visualization, etc).
- Experience developing and debugging on Linux operating systems.
- Desire and ability to quickly learn new skills and technologies.

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.

## About Glydways

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Glydways designs, builds, and operates a private, on-demand autonomous public transit system using dedicated guideways and self-driving “Glydcars,” aiming to deliver high-capacity, low-cost, and environmentally net-negative mobility.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-funded; raised a $170M oversubscribed Series C in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA (with additional office in Richmond, CA)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Mark Seeger (Co-CEO) and Blake Barber (Co-CEO, CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Autonomous transportation / transit technology
- **Target customers**: Municipal governments, transit authorities, and development districts (B2G/B2B)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Access to mobility is access to opportunity” – the company believes that affordable, congestion-free transit is the key to economic and social equity, and it designs systems to be financially self-sustaining rather than subsidy-dependent.

## Products & Services
- **Glydways Transit System**: A complete autonomous network consisting of small, self-driving Glydcars running on dedicated lightweight guideways. The system provides point-to-point, on-demand rides with no intermediate stops. It integrates photovoltaic power generation to achieve net-negative greenhouse gas emissions. The first networks are expected to launch in 2026 in Atlanta, Contra Costa County (CA), San Jose, and Abu Dhabi.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company). Latest funding round: $170M oversubscribed Series C (April 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total disclosed funding exceeds the Series C amount; earlier rounds not detailed in search results.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Abu Dhabi Investment Office – partnership announced March 2026
  - Multiple municipal partners: Atlanta (debut system near airport), Contra Costa County, San Jose
- **Growth Signals**:
  - First operational networks scheduled for 2026
  - Oversubscribed Series C indicates strong investor confidence
  - Expanding to international markets (Abu Dhabi) alongside US deployments
  - Headcount ~86 total employees (per Built In) with active hiring across engineering, finance, and cybersecurity

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cost leadership**: Claims 90% lower build cost and 30% lower operating cost versus conventional rail transit
- **High capacity**: Can move up to 10,000 people per hour per direction at scale
- **GHG-negative**: Designed with built-in photovoltaics and ultra-efficient power consumption
- **Financial sustainability**: Business model allows private capitalization of entire systems, eliminating need for ongoing public subsidies
- **Commodity supply chains**: Uses existing, off-the-shelf technologies rather than custom hardware

## Strategic Focus
- **Immediate priority**: Launch the first autonomous transit networks in 2026 (Atlanta, Contra Costa, San Jose, Abu Dhabi)
- **Long-term direction**: Expand to additional cities globally, scale manufacturing, and prove the model of privately-financed, subsidy-free public transit
- **Technical focus**: Refine autonomy stack, integrate with existing urban infrastructure, and reduce per-mile costs further

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: A team “united by purpose” – employees are driven by solving climate and mobility challenges at infrastructure scale. Leadership emphasizes “better transit unlocks better cities.”
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Mixed. Some roles are listed as “Remote” (e.g., Autonomy Integration Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Engineer), while others are “Hybrid” or “In-Office” based in Richmond, CA (e.g., Financial Analyst, Compute Platform Engineer). The Built In profile notes “In-Office or Remote” options.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Deep autonomy experience – CTO Blake Barber previously worked at MIT Lincoln Lab, Lockheed Martin, Uber ATG, and Aurora Innovation. The company offers roles in cutting-edge autonomous systems, embedded software, vehicle integration, and data platform engineering. The work directly addresses climate change and urban congestion.

## Sources
1. [glydways.com](https://www.glydways.com)
2. [glydways.com/about](https://www.glydways.com/about/)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/glydways)
4. [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/atlanta-to-debut-autonomous-glydways-transit-system-near-airport/)
5. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/glydways)

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