Who we are:
At Glydways, we believe that mobility is a basic human right. Low-cost and ubiquitous access to affordable housing, employment, education, commerce and care lead to economic and social prosperity. As such our goal is to provide:
Public transit with the highest capacity, the best user experience, the lowest cost, and the lowest carbon footprint.
Our solution is a system of interconnected, profitable, and carbon footprint neutral transportation networks that uses standardized autonomous vehicles and a closed roadway. Together, they provide a 24/7 on-demand private mobility service without burdening the public with heavy upfront costs or annual system subsidies.
Meet the team:
As a Solutions Architect at Glydways, and as part of a Solution Design Team, you will be at the forefront of designing and defining the systems that will drive the next generation of urban mobility. You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers, designers, and planners, and project managers working together to create transit solutions that exceed the expectations of our diverse global customer base.
The Solution Design Team is a critical part of our commercial scaling and project development efforts as no system is 1 size fits all. The team is ultimately built around customer success and the competitive application of the Glydways product towards a contract. A critical first step is the evaluation of the business opportunity, project risks and product fit. This results in a flexible team that understands the Glydways product holistically, its strengths, weaknesses and has the discipline to bring them to the foreground for evaluation, approval, proposal generation, product development education and ultimately commercial success.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Engage with the Customer to evaluate opportunities, understand customer requirements, estimate traffic patterns / evaluate ridership, clarify and document corridor constraints and operational considerations.
- Understand the competitive nature of Glydways when compared to existing traditional solutions.
- Translate customer's needs and priorities to a Glydways system design that is optimized for competitiveness through extensive trade-off analyses.
- Build tools when necessary for evaluations/trade offs: For example: Rough fleet calculations based on unique ridership data, total Glydways system energy use, discreet rider travel times, aggregated transit (bus/train) fleet #/cost calculations for comparisons.
- Identify product shortcomings and conduct high level market research to determine solutioning. Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and commercial teams to estimate development & implementation risks/costs for these new features and products.
- Work with a team to ensure that design and insights are incorporated into proposals and progress the commercial effort
- Create accessible explanations of the Glydways system, addressing common misconceptions with compelling examples and demos. Drive the adoption of our system by clarifying counterintuitive concepts for broader understanding.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelors in engineering background and experience (System Engineering preferred)
- 15+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, design engineering, or other product development roles with a strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles
- Extensive involvement in defining product attributes and features.
- Ability to rationalize system level problems and trades, strong analytical skills.
- Ability conduct research on project backgrounds, evaluate reports
- Ability to cross coordinate and TPM multiple conversations and workflows
- Communicate effectively with management through simplification of rigorous research.
- Passion for innovation and sustainability with a drive towards solving inequality through mobility
- Willing to travel within the US and internationally.
- Local to the Bay Area preferred
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.
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
