Autonomy Engineer - Map Systems

Meet the team:

You'll be part of Glydways' Autonomy Motion Team focused on vehicle coordination, planning, mapping, and movement. This team fuses expertise in motion control, multi-agent coordination, and map infrastructure to enable safe, efficient autonomous rides for every passenger. Part of the team's responsibility is to create, maintain, and evolve map features, ensuring that every route is deconflicted, every traffic flow is optimized, and every journey is precise and comfortable. By collaborating across embedded, infrastructure, perception, and operations, the team pushes forward cutting-edge autonomy technologies, dynamic algorithms, and rigorous real-world testing.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement map software infrastructure (data models, APIs, visualization and editing tools) for various map features and building blocks such as stations, intersections, curved roads, slopes, merges, etc.

• Build, validate, and maintain robust pipelines for automated and manual map generation, validation, and ingestion from source data (point clouds, OSM, CAD, logs, sensor data, etc.) 

• Develop and maintain GUIs and visualization tools enabling cross-team inspection, testing, review, and debugging.

• Implement advanced geometric and topological algorithms to support spatial geometry (splines, spirals, snap-to-infrastructure, road grade, etc.) and edge/node semantics.

• Support the implementation and evolution of segment types and semantics and their constraints/validation.

• Integrate mapping assets with autonomy simulation, test, and log pipeline (map updates propagated to CI/vehicle test scenarios, support for regression analysis and real/synthetic data).

• Collaborate cross-functionally on requirements capture with planning, controls, perception, infrastructure, and operations teams; support scenarios/tests with appropriate map configurations.

• Develop and apply quality, integrity checking, and visualization/validation tools for map quality, alignment, and update processes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 3+ years of C++ (primary), Python (supporting), with a record of robust, testable code in graph and geometry-heavy domains.

• Deep knowledge of computational geometry (splines, curves, coordinates/frame transforms, quaternions, vector math, noise/uncertainty handling).

• Experience with graph structures and algorithms (traversal, pathfinding, node/edge property management, validation).

• Practical skills building and debugging user-facing visualization tooling (GUI, web-based, or desktop).

• Familiarity with mapping data sources, pipelines, and automated/manual adjustment: OSM, lidar/PCD, scenario config, etc. 

• Source control best-practices (git/branching/review, automated/unit/system test infra, code/PR health).

• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills for cross-functional requirements gathering and impact analysis.