HIL Test Engineer - System Test
Required skills
- HIL
- Hardware-in-the-Loop
- system test
- embedded controllers
- automation
- data analysis
- test plans
- test procedures
- automated test cases
- regression tests
Nice to have
- test benches
- test harnesses
- simulators
- continuous integration
- real-time systems
- hardware/software integration
Role summary
Glydways is seeking a System Test Engineer to build, operate, and improve Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test capabilities for their integrated autonomous transit system. This role involves developing HIL test plans, automating regression tests, analyzing results, and improving test environments. The ideal candidate has strong HIL instincts, can translate requirements into concrete tests, understands system interfaces and failure modes, and possesses strong follow-through and communication skills. Experience with embedded systems, test automation, data analysis, and Python is required, with preferred experience in C/C++, requirements management, safety standards, and autonomous systems. This hybrid role offers opportunities for growth from mid-level to staff-level technical leadership.
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:
At Glydways, the Test Engineering team is responsible for proving that our integrated autonomous transit system is safe, reliable, and ready for real-world operation.
We work across autonomy, vehicle hardware, embedded software, systems engineering, safety, infrastructure, operations, quality, and deployment teams. Our work spans simulation, software-based test environments, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, lab testing, vehicle testing, test-track operations, and project-site commissioning.
This role focuses on Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and the test environments that allow Glydways to exercise real controllers, software, networks, interfaces, and failure modes before they reach vehicles, the test track, or customer sites.
Roles Overview:
We are seeking a System Test Engineer who can build, operate, and improve Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test capabilities for a complex autonomous transit system.
This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable at the boundary between test engineering, embedded systems, controls, software, hardware interfaces, automation, and data analysis. You will help ensure that system behavior, safety functions, regressions, and edge cases can be tested earlier, more often, and more repeatedly through high-quality HIL environments.
You will develop HIL test procedures, automate regression tests, manage test configurations and data, analyze results, and improve the benches, simulators, harnesses, dashboards, and workflows that make system testing more scalable.
We are open to candidates across a range of experience levels, from strong mid-level engineers through staff-level technical leaders. Scope and title will be calibrated based on experience. More senior candidates will be expected to own larger HIL capabilities, improve test architecture and process, mentor others, and represent test evidence in readiness and release discussions.
This role will include hands-on work with test benches, controllers, networks, lab equipment, vehicles, and Glydways test facilities. Some travel or on-site presence should be expected for integration campaigns, test environment bring-up, and major release demonstrations.
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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.
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