3 months ago
Richmond, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and deploy mission-critical onboard software for Glydways vehicles.
- Develop high-performance interfaces for cameras, radar, LiDAR, IMUs, drive-by-wire, controls, and other vehicle systems.
- Develop and integrate runtimes and middleware for reliable onboard autonomy and ML workloads.
- Improve live track operations software for deployment, vehicle provisioning, logging, and observability.
- Collaborate with autonomy, hardware, and operations teams on interfaces, evaluation pipelines, and fleet features.
- Investigate and debug bench and on-vehicle issues through root cause and stable fixes.
- Shape technical direction through system ownership, design discussions, and code reviews.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and supporting production systems.
- Strong proficiency in C++ or C for production systems and experience navigating existing codebases.
- Experience developing device drivers or low-level sensor and actuator interfaces using hardware-in-the-loop or similar test frameworks.
- Experience developing on resource-constrained embedded hardware.
- Understanding of SPI, UART, CAN, TCP, and UDP communication protocols.
- Experience with Linux, particularly embedded environments such as Yocto or Buildroot.
- Experience with robotics middleware such as ARK, LCM, ROS, or ROS 2.
- Ability to own features end-to-end from requirements clarification through field support.
- Preferred: familiarity with ML inference runtimes and production or edge ML model integration.
- Preferred: contributions to open-source AI, robotics, or embedded frameworks.
- Preferred: experience with automotive, real-time, safety-critical, autonomous vehicle, robotics, or complex mechatronic systems.
- Preferred: embedded CPU/GPU and hardware accelerator performance engineering experience.
- Preferred: experience collaborating with operations and field teams to debug production systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid position requiring 2–3 days per week onsite in Richmond, California.
- Stock options are included.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
About Glydways
Glydways builds on-demand urban transit systems that use small autonomous electric vehicles running on dedicated, low-footprint guideways. It designs and manufactures the vehicles and infrastructure and partners with cities, transit agencies, and private developers to deploy and operate the service. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the privately held company targets high-capacity, carbon-neutral mobility for dense corridors and campus-scale connections.