Perception Software Engineering Intern

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.

Meet the team:

The Glydways perception team is responsible for designing and implementing a perception system that includes data fusion from state-of-the-art sensors (e.g., LIDAR, RADAR, High definition cameras, Ultra-wide-band radios, etc.) and robust detection, classification, and tracking of any and all obstacles that could present a hazard to the vehicle (Glydcars) in the system. The perception system for Glydways will reason about information from each Glydcar and from regularly spaced sensor pods monitoring the road network.  

The perception team plays a vital role within the Autonomy Software engineering team.  The team’s deliverables include: 

1. Documenting a detailed design for enacting a safe system that can be certified by public transportation authorities.
2. Implementing said design on mature prototype vehicles in demonstrations to customers, potential customers, and investors.
3. Expanding the design to include fail-operational capabilities that extend the overall system to safely give our customers a more comfortable experience.
4. Managing data collection, autonomy testing, and milestone demonstration events that showcase the system’s maturing capabilities, leading to a production system.  

Team members may work remotely and must be self-motivated.  

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly motivated research intern with a strong background in machine learning to join our ML Perception team and apply your expertise to real-world multi agent autonomous driving and infrastructure challenges to help Glydcars see. In this role, you will focus on multimodal efficient deep learning for safety critical systems with built in redundancy and robustness. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, you will develop innovative models and algorithms to enhance our perception stack.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Implement state-of-the-art onboard multimodal multitask ML perception models, and finetune them to improve performance
• Develop custom adaptations (such as layers, loss functions, etc.) to improve performance on our datasetResearch and development in various areas, including multiview sensor fusion for redundancy, robustness, and safety critical operation; and scene understanding with a focus on anomaly detection.
• Design and perform experiments, and share and present findings, potentially as a peer-reviewed publication.
• Work with multimodal (camera, lidar, radar) datasets from a multiagent autonomous system

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Masters / PhD graduating within 12 months of internship completion
• Strong programming skills (Modern C++ and/or Python)
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Strong problem-solving and research skills
• Candidates with experience in early fusion models and/or semantic segmentation models are 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.