Closures Engineering Lead

🕒 September 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Glydways

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👥 B2C

Transport • Artificial Intelligence • B2C

Glydways is a company focused on transforming public transit through innovative and efficient mobility solutions. Their unique approach includes a seamless self-driving fleet operating on dedicated guideways, allowing for direct and congestion-free rides. Glydways aims to make transit accessible and financially sustainable, promoting the idea that access to mobility is essential for opportunity and community engagement.

📋 Description

• Own the technical roadmap and product delivery for Glydways door and closure systems, including structures, mechanisms, rails, latches, seals, actuators, sensors, interfaces, electrical and electronic systems, and related software • Translate vehicle-level requirements into closure-system requirements, architectures, design decisions, verification plans, and acceptance criteria • Lead the design and integration of complex mechanisms, including kinematics, actuator selection, latch and hinge integration, packaging, tolerance definition, and interface management • Drive cross-functional alignment across mechanical, electrical, software, systems, product, safety, validation, manufacturing, quality, industrial design, and operations teams • Coordinate technical work with external engineering, manufacturing partners, and suppliers across Japan, the United States, and Europe • Lead prototype builds, vehicle integration, durability testing, root-cause investigations, design iterations, and production-readiness activities within a demanding development and build schedule • Anticipate manufacturing, assembly, service, quality, reliability, and cost challenges through design-for-manufacturability and design-for-assembly practices • Establish effective processes for requirements, issue tracking, design reviews, change management, documentation, and decision-making

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience developing automotive closures or complex mechanical and electromechanical systems through multiple product-development stages; sliding-door experience is highly valuable • Strong understanding of mechanism design, kinematics, actuators, latches, hinges, seals, tolerance management, design verification, and reliability • Experience collaborating with suppliers, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional teams in automotive, mobility, robotics, aerospace, or a similar complex-product environment • Strong communication, organization, judgment, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently in an ambiguous and rapidly changing international and multicultural environment • Experience taking a closure system or complex mechanism from concept through sourcing, validation, production, and launch • Working knowledge of design for manufacturability, design for assembly, GD&T, tolerance analysis, FMEA, and quality-planning methods • Experience with CATIA, 3DX, or comparable CAD and PLM tools, at least DMU-level proficiency; experience using CAE tools for product development is a plus • Professional fluency in English; Japanese language skills are a plus • Willingness and ability to travel internationally, including extended collaboration or assignments in Japan and the United States, as business needs require