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.
About the Project:
The Glydways Atlanta ATN Pilot Project is the first passenger-carrying Automated Transit Network (ATN) deployed by Glydways in the United States, running from the Airport SkyTrain at the Georgia International Convention Center to the Gateway Center Arena. It spans system integration and testing, commissioning, and pilot passenger service alongside project sponsors, contractors, the operating organization, local authorities, and emergency responders.
Glydways has established an independent Safety, Quality and Compliance organization, applying established transit and rail safety standards to a new class of automated technology. On the Atlanta site, the safety function owns the site safety management system, confirms that required controls are implemented before work and service proceed, and works in close partnership with Test and Commissioning, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, contractors, local authorities, and emergency responders to sustain them. The same organization develops and maintains the safety case that certifies the system for passenger service.
About the Role:
The Site Safety Manager is responsible for the safety of the operation of the transit system and personnel on site. The Site Safety Manager also supports system reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) and certification activities for the Glydways Atlanta ATN Pilot Project and other projects. The role covers the path from late-stage design through integration testing, commissioning, operations with passenger service, maintenance, modification, recovery, and emergency response.
The role reports directly to the Atlanta ATN Pilot Project Director for site delivery and coordination, and functionally to the Glydways Safety Lead within Safety, Quality and Compliance for safety direction, competence, and assurance. Independent of operations, the Site Safety Manager performs site safety audits, restricts access or return to service, stops work or service, and escalates imminent hazards, safety envelope breaches, or incomplete controls.
The Site Safety Manager supports and maintains the site safety case and the evidence needed for the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ), such as the State Safety Oversight Agency (SSOA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), or the operating organization, to approve the system for passenger service. This includes tailoring the system safety, certification, and operational safety plans to the project regulatory environment, leading project-specific hazard analysis and safety case development, performing operational hazard analysis, supporting system verification and validation, tracking all safety activities, and closing out findings and safety actions with authorities.
The Site Safety Manager is accountable for occupational safety of everyone at the site, including Glydways personnel, the operating organization, contractors, and visitors, and for the hazards introduced by testing, commissioning, and operation of an automated transit system. This covers recordkeeping and reporting, hazard communication, lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, work permits, access control, and the controls required wherever testing and passenger service take place at the same time.
The Site Safety Manager understands the Operational Limitations and Safety Related Application Conditions (SRACs) established in the safety case and owns their site implementation, communication, verification, and enforcement. The manager creates, maintains, and updates the ATL Site Hazard Log, and verifies that every hazard control is implemented and effective through regular inspections, independent audits, and follow-up. Working with Quality, the manager establishes and enforces ATL site safety standard operating procedures (SOPs). With onsite maintenance staff, the manager reviews system faults and work orders and coordinates failure reports through the Glydways Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process.
The Site Safety Manager owns incident notification, investigation, and corrective actions, reports safety performance to the project and to Safety, Quality and Compliance, leads emergency preparedness and responder coordination, and provides the safety inputs to operational readiness.
Required Skills:
- B.S. in Engineering, safety science, or a related technical field, or equivalent.
- At least 5 years of experience in system safety, functional safety, safety engineering, or system certification.
- Direct experience contributing to safety certification or approval for operation of rail, transit, automated people mover, aerospace, industrial, or similar complex systems, including safety case development, safety verification and validation, or regulator approval.
- Experience working with an oversight agency or authority on safety arguments, findings, and close-out of safety actions.
- Working knowledge of at least one recognized safety assurance standard, such as American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 21-21, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61508, European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) EN 50126, EN 50129, and EN 50128 or EN 50716, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) MIL-STD-882, or International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262.
- Competence in safety management for operating, automated, or safety-critical transit systems.
- Competence in Safety Management Systems, risk management and assurance, hazard and SRAC tracking, FRACAS, corrective actions, and independent auditing.
- Competence in incident management, covering notification, evidence preservation, investigation, root cause analysis, reporting, and effectiveness checks.
- Competence in emergency preparedness, covering incident command, evacuation and rescue, fire and life safety, responder coordination, drills, and exercises.
- Working knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements.
- Independent judgment to stop work or service, restrict unsafe activities, and escalate unresolved concerns.
- Clear communication with workers, passengers, contractors, technical teams, leadership, authorities, and emergency responders.
- Ability to work with Quality to control site safety SOPs, maintain the ATL Site Hazard Log, verify controls, and conduct regular audits.
- Able to work with the Functional Safety team to implement operational restrictions and escalate site conditions or events that may affect them.
- Available onsite and able to complete training and certification required by approved pilot plans, the site safety program, and applicable Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) requirements.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience applying EN 50126.
- Experience managing site safety for rail transit, automated people mover systems, or comparable safety-critical systems, across system integration and testing, commissioning, passenger operations, and maintenance.
- Experience working with the SSOA, FTA, or other transit regulatory body, and familiarity with their safety management requirements.
- Experience coordinating with emergency responders, airport stakeholders, and multi-employer sites.
- Experience with job hazard analysis and safe systems of work, such as permits to work, lockout/tagout, confined space, energized work, and work at height.
- Comfort with complex autonomous systems, with self-driving vehicle experience preferred.
- Experience with reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis methods and metrics.
- Experience with cybersecurity as it applies to safety-critical systems.
- Working knowledge of safety analysis, requirements management, and collaboration tools such as Medini, Jama, Jira, Confluence, and Python.
- Atlanta and Georgia operating experience.
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.
Skills Required
- B.S. in Engineering or equivalent education
- Senior safety-management experience across construction, system integration and testing, commissioning, passenger operations, and maintenance
- Experience in public transportation, automated transit, rail fixed guideway, or another high-consequence system
- Competence in Safety Management Systems, risk management and assurance, hazard and SRAC tracking, FRACAS, corrective actions, and independent auditing
- Incident-management experience including notification, evidence preservation, investigation, root cause analysis, reporting, and effectiveness checks
- Emergency-preparedness experience including incident command, evacuation and rescue, fire and life safety, responder coordination, drills, and exercises
- Working knowledge of OSHA reporting, hazard communication, lockout/tagout, construction and contractor safety, and simultaneous-work controls
- Independent judgment to stop work or service, restrict unsafe activities, and escalate unresolved concerns
- Clear communication with workers, passengers, contractors, technical teams, leadership, authorities, and emergency responders
- Ability to control site safety SOPs, maintain the ATL Site Hazard Log, verify controls, and conduct regular audits
- Availability to work onsite and complete training and certification required by approved pilot plans, the site safety program, and applicable GDOT requirements
- Experience applying GDOT State Safety Oversight, FTA Safety Management System or State Safety Oversight, or comparable transit-safety frameworks
- Automated-transit or rail experience involving safety certification, hazard logs, SRACs, or FRACAS
- Experience coordinating with authorities, emergency responders, airport stakeholders, and multi-employer sites
- Professional safety certification and Atlanta or Georgia operating experience
- OSHA 30 Hour training
- OSHA 510 and OSHA 500, or OSHA 511 and OSHA 501, preferred or obtainable within 12 months
- CSP, ASP, or CHST certification
- Transit safety training through FTA, TSI, APTA, or an equivalent recognized program
- Experience with PTASP, PTSCTP, State Safety Oversight, transit SMS, contractor safety, incident investigation, emergency response, and independent safety auditing
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
