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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.\nOur mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.\nThe 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.\nWith Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.\nMeet the Team\nAt Glydways, our Systems team is responsible for architecting and verifying complex functional, logical, hardware, and software systems. We work across autonomy, vehicle hardware, safety, infrastructure, and operations to ensure the Glydways system is safe, reliable, and a great product experience. Sitting at the intersection of product vision and engineering execution, we own system requirements, the architecture of safety functions, vehicle definition, and infrastructure guidelines.\nRole Overview\nAs a Senior or Staff Systems Engineer - GATN (Glydways Automated Transit Network), you will be the technical owner for how new features and system changes show up on the guideway. You will:\nDesign, create requirements, and demonstrate novel features required of our public transit system.\nJudge the health of safety functions and guardrails using logs, metrics, and on-track behavior.\nDefine and execute integration test plans for new GATN capabilities using data-driven methods.\nDrive issues to closure so that the system can operate safely and hit its availability targets.\nYou’ll work hands-on at the track (e.g. at project sites), in logs and dashboards, and in tools to turn “we need this to work on the track” into concrete scenarios, parameters, and decisions. We prefer to have this position on-site 4 days a week in Atlanta, GA. The senior or staff leveling will be determined during interviews.\nThis role is ideal for someone who has shipped complex hardware/software systems, enjoys integration and test work, and is comfortable taming chaos in a multi-team environment. \nWe’re building the entire transit solution! It will operate safely and reliably, and we have to build not only the rider experience from ticketing to destination, but design the day in the life of each vehicle prior to and during business hours.\nResponsibilities\n Own feature landing for GATN: Design, plan and execute integration of new system capabilities on the track (product features including reduced headways, fail-operational behaviors, meeting availability targets, ticket kiosk flows, dispatch behaviors, new ATP functions).\nDefine and run integration scenarios: Design Tier 2+ integration scenarios that exercise safety functions, throughput behaviors, and operational workflows across vehicles, wayside, and dispatch / OCC.\nImprove regression and mileage test suites: Improve the regression test suite and mileage-accumulation campaigns that gate releases, including test selection, ordering, and coverage criteria for GATN features.\n Guardrail and safety-function health: Review logs, metrics, and track behavior to judge the 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resolutions.\nImprove integration process and tooling: Identify gaps in test infrastructure, logging, metrics, and configuration management that slow down feature landing; propose and help implement improvements.\nCommunicate clearly and often: Provide crisp status on feature readiness, risks, and blockers; document decisions and operational guardrails so that product, operations, and leadership have a clear picture of system state.\nIdeal Characteristics\nCan turn ambiguity into clarity: drive vague, high-level questions into concrete, testable requirements.\nKnows which questions matter most: generates many, but focuses on the critical few.\nHas shipped products.\nBrings cross-functional depth: ideally with a background in mechanical, electrical, embedded, or software design engineering.\nRaises the bar for rigor: requirements traceability, verification planning, safety analysis, and disciplined systems thinking.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer 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