Linux Kernel Engineer

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 Onboard Integration team, as a part of Software Platform, works closely with teams across Glydways spanning Vehicle Hardware to Autonomy to provide the software foundation for running and controlling the robot on the road. Whether it’s streaming data from the latest sensors, controlling actuators on the vehicle, creating a custom OS and kernel, shipping a new ML framework, bringing a vehicle cabin to life with visuals and sounds, or writing tools and systems to support live track operations - the Onboard Integration team gets things done to keep the vehicle and other teams moving forward.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain a custom, Yocto-based, Linux distribution, supporting multiple custom computer platforms, both with and without displays.

• Board bring up of NVIDIA Tegra and NXP i.MX based compute platforms.

• Linux kernel driver development for NVIDIA Tegra and NXP i.MX platforms.

• Linux kernel support for full network, audio, and visual hardware.

• Contribute to and select patches from various upstream, open-source projects.

• Test custom board features in CI & HIL environments.

• Long term support of Yocto linux distributions and Linux kernel for deployed products.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel development.

• In-depth knowledge of build systems like Yocto and Buildroot

• Experience submitting and getting patches accepted by open source projects.

• Advanced knowledge of C/C++ programming and shell scripting; other languages and skills are also valuable.

• Experience developing on resource-constrained embedded hardware.

• Experience with CI & HIL environments including testing and validating custom Linux based system compute systems.

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.