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 be part of Glydways' Autonomy Motion Team focused on vehicle coordination, planning, mapping, and movement. This team fuses expertise in motion control, multi-agent coordination, and map infrastructure to enable safe, efficient autonomous rides for every passenger. Part of the team's responsibility is to create, maintain, and evolve map features, ensuring that every route is deconflicted, every traffic flow is optimized, and every journey is precise and comfortable. By collaborating across embedded, infrastructure, perception, and operations, the team pushes forward cutting-edge autonomy technologies, dynamic algorithms, and rigorous real-world testing.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Design and implement map software infrastructure (data models, APIs, visualization and editing tools) for various map features and building blocks such as stations, intersections, curved roads, slopes, merges, etc.
Build, validate, and maintain robust pipelines for automated and manual map generation, validation, and ingestion from source data (point clouds, OSM, CAD, logs, sensor data, etc.)
Develop and maintain GUIs and visualization tools enabling cross-team inspection, testing, review, and debugging.
Implement advanced geometric and topological algorithms to support spatial geometry (splines, spirals, snap-to-infrastructure, road grade, etc.) and edge/node semantics.
Support the implementation and evolution of segment types and semantics and their constraints/validation.
Integrate mapping assets with autonomy simulation, test, and log pipeline (map updates propagated to CI/vehicle test scenarios, support for regression analysis and real/synthetic data).
Collaborate cross-functionally on requirements capture with planning, controls, perception, infrastructure, and operations teams; support scenarios/tests with appropriate map configurations.
Develop and apply quality, integrity checking, and visualization/validation tools for map quality, alignment, and update processes.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
3+ years of C++ (primary), Python (supporting), with a record of robust, testable code in graph and geometry-heavy domains.
Deep knowledge of computational geometry (splines, curves, coordinates/frame transforms, quaternions, vector math, noise/uncertainty handling).
Experience with graph structures and algorithms (traversal, pathfinding, node/edge property management, validation).
Practical skills building and debugging user-facing visualization tooling (GUI, web-based, or desktop).
Familiarity with mapping data sources, pipelines, and automated/manual adjustment: OSM, lidar/PCD, scenario config, etc.
Source control best-practices (git/branching/review, automated/unit/system test infra, code/PR health).
Strong written and verbal technical communication skills for cross-functional requirements gathering and impact analysis.
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
