System Test Lead

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 Safety, Quality and Compliance (SQC) organization ensures that Glydways Automated Transit Networks are developed, verified, validated, and operated in a way that is demonstrably safe, compliant, and high performing. SQC is organizationally independent from Engineering and Program Management, satisfying CENELEC railway safety standards by clearly separating who designs from who validates. Within SQC, the Verification, Validation Testing (VV) team plans, specifies, executes, and reports system level tests that produce formal evidence for the safety case and regulatory acceptance. Role Overview: We're looking for a System Test Lead to own and drive all formal system level test campaigns at our development facility and project deployment sites, from system level testing through validation, regression, production acceptance, and commissioning. You won't just execute test campaigns, you'll lead the test activities, set the standards and be accountable for the quality and completeness of the evidence that goes into the safety case. You'll build and develop a high performing test organization, make real time decisions on the test track, present test readiness evidence at formal safety gates, and interface directly with the Independent Safety Assessor. This role is for someone who combines deep technical test expertise with the leadership instinct to drive execution, shape processes, and own outcomes at the program level. You'll sit at the nexus of systems engineering, safety assurance, and test operations, and your actions and judgment will determine whether the system is ready to carry passengers. Responsibilities: On-Site Test Management: Lead and coordinate all formal system level test campaigns at the development facility and project sites, owning the campaign schedule, test coordination, and real time decision making. Manage and develop the test engineering team to build a high performing, standards aware independent test team. System Testing: Direct the test planning, test case specification, and execution of formal and independent system test campaigns, including safety-related testing, degraded mode, and emergency scenarios, in coordination with Systems Engineering and Safety. Safety: Own safety of test controls across all dynamic campaigns. Prepare, present, and defend test readiness evidence at TRRs and Internal Safety Milestones. Interface with Independent Safety Assessors on test planning, test results, and defect management. Provide test evidence assessments and recommendations to the System Verifier and System Validator for lifecycle phase closure decisions. Governance: Own the formal regression test suite and release gating process, defining coverage criteria, acceptance thresholds, and the pass/fail verdict that determines whether a release proceeds. Govern test configuration baselines and release validation workflows, ensure all formal testing runs against approved, traceable, and reproducible configuration ... (truncated, view full listing at source)