Software Engineer, Glydways

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping and supporting production systems
• Strong proficiency in C++ or C for production systems—comfortable navigating and improving an existing codebase as well as writing new components
• Experience developing device drivers or low-level interfaces for sensors and/or actuators, including use of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or similar test frameworks
• Experience developing on resource-constrained embedded hardware (CPU, memory, storage, or bandwidth limited)
• Solid understanding of communication protocols, from low-level (SPI, UART, CAN) to higher-level networking (TCP/UDP)
• Experience with Linux, especially embedded environments (e.g., Yocto, Buildroot, or similar)
• Experience with robotics middleware such as ARK, LCM, ROS, or ROS 2
• Ability to own features end-to-end: clarifying requirements, designing, implementing, testing, and supporting them in the field

Desirable

• The Onboard Integration team builds the software foundation that runs on every Glydways vehicle. Part of the Embedded Platform & Integration group, we partner daily with Vehicle Hardware, Autonomy, Safety, and Track Operations to turn a collection of components into a cohesive system on the road
• Our work spans streaming data from new sensors, controlling vehicle actuators, building our custom embedded Linux OS, integrating ML runtimes, and writing the tools that keep live track operations moving -we own the glue that makes an autonomous vehicle actually drive
• This is software that moves real vehicles carrying real passengers, so reliability isn't a nice-to-have - it's the job
• As a Software Engineer on Onboard Integration, you won't be handed narrowly scoped tickets. You'll take a problem from the whiteboard to code running on a vehicle at our test track, get hands-on with the newest hardware in the building, and debug across the software, firmware, and electrical boundaries where the hard problems live
• We're looking for engineers who are genuinely excited about autonomous vehicles and PRT, who take initiative in ambiguity, find signals in noisy systems, and own their work end-to-end
• Design, build, and test mission-critical onboard software that runs on every Glydways vehicle, from prototype to deployment on track
• Own high-performance interfaces to onboard devices—from cameras, radar, LiDAR, and IMUs to drive-by-wire, controls, and other vehicle systems
• Develop and integrate runtimes and middleware so autonomy and ML workloads can execute and communicate reliably onboard
• Design and improve systems for live track operations: software deployment, vehicle provisioning, logging, and observability
• Collaborate with Autonomy, Hardware, and Operations teams to define interfaces, build evaluation pipelines on real and simulated vehicles, and ship features to the fleet
• Investigate and debug issues on the bench and on-vehicle, driving them to root cause and stable fixes
• Shape technical direction for the areas you own, and raise the bar through design discussions and code reviews