Who we are:
At Glydways, we believe that mobility is a basic human right. Low-cost and ubiquitous access to affordable housing, employment, education, commerce and care lead to economic and social prosperity. As such our goal is to provide:
Public transit with the highest capacity, the best user experience, the lowest cost, and the lowest carbon footprint.
Our solution is a system of interconnected, profitable, and carbon footprint neutral transportation networks that uses standardized autonomous vehicles and a closed roadway. Together, they provide a 24/7 on-demand private mobility service without burdening the public with heavy upfront costs or annual system subsidies.
Meet the team:
You will join a team that is responsible for developing software for localization, calibration, and mapping of robotic ground vehicles, which we lovingly refer to as Glydcars. The team is composed of team members with strong backgrounds in sensor fusion (LIDAR, RADAR, vision processing, UWB radios, inertial sensors, etc), SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), optimization, filtering (Kalman filters, factor graphs, etc) and tracking. Members support development and maintenance of core components of a sophisticated autonomy stack for Glydcars, which operate in a variety of environments including GPS-denied areas. Team members contribute by writing C++ onboard software, peer-reviewing each other’s contributions, developing unit, subsystem, and end-to-end tests, and conducting data analysis (often using Python) in a common software repository.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance state-of-the-art algorithms for sensor fusion, integrity monitoring, calibration, and mapping.
- Work closely with teammates by conducting and receiving code reviews and demonstrating attention to detail.
- Conduct simulation (including developing and passing unit tests, subsystem tests, and end-to-end scenarios) and live testing of the autonomy stack.
- Perform detailed analysis of algorithm and system performance by replaying logs of simulated and live testing and augmenting analysis capabilities.
- Participate in the design of safety-critical software components of the Glydcar and wayside systems.
- Deliver answers and results to tough problems including providing cm-level accurate localization and mapping in GPS-denied environments.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- PhD in a relevant field (engineering/computer science) or MSc and 3+ years of professional experience.
- C++ Programming Skills: experience and excellent skills with modern variants of C++ (e.g., C++20), experience with a C++ unit testing framework such as gtest, experience working with CMake and/or bazel build systems.
- Thorough knowledge and implementation experience in several localization/calibration/mapping algorithms such as factor graph optimization, numerical optimization, scan-matching, multilateration, integrity monitoring, etc.
- Familiarity and competence with mathematical concepts such as rigid body transforms, 3D calculus, 6DOF kinematics, probability theory, and linear algebra.
- Bonus: extensive experience in Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM).
- Bonus: experience in safety qualification standards related to localization accuracy.
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
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