Lead Robotics Engineer (On-Road Autonomy)

Who are we?

Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; the autonomous shuttling of goods and people.We are home to some of the world’s leading experts on autonomous vehicles, creating solutions such as Oxa Driver, equipping vehicles with full self-driving functionality; Oxa MetaDriver, using Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments; and Oxa Hub, a set of cloud-based offerings for autonomous fleet management. Our technology is being deployed across the UK and the U.S, and we’re partnering with a fast-growing ecosystem of operators, vehicle OEMs and equipment makers serving autonomous transportation globally as it advances.

Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada and the U.S, Oxa was founded in 2014 and is  growing rapidly (350+ ‘Oxbots’ to date). Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. The company has attracted $225 million from leading investors so far, with $140 million raised in the last Series C funding round in January 2023.

Your Team:

Joining as our Lead Engineer within our Launchpad team, you will assess software performance in real-world conditions by working directly with our vehicles. You will also develop and maintain tooling to support the delivery of quality code to vehicles, and then leverage this knowledge to create virtual scenarios in the cloud, enabling us to test the quality of our software at scale. As a member of Launchpad you will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the system’s components and interactions, and as a lead there is particular focus on identifying areas for improvement and driving strategic improvements to drive our technical capabilities forwards.

We are a team of problem solvers and keen roboticist's who enjoy looking at the big picture and tackling challenges, and we are devoted to perfecting our software both in the real and the virtual worlds to deliver the best possible version of our vision for Universal Autonomy™️.

Your Responsibilities:

• Owning, maintaining and delivering the roadmaps for the initial Autonomy Concept.
• Ensuring alignment of the roadmaps and their delivery to the broader business objectives.
• Working with customers, stakeholders and leaders to identify customer needs and workflows.
• Team organisation and planning, delivering milestones and business goals. 
• Reporting and documenting team activity, to track progress and maintain best practice.
• Engaging with other teams to ensure correct prioritisation of new features and timely issue resolution.
• Supporting the Integration Lead in the team with technical expertise and domain knowledge of the applications of an autonomy product. 

• Lead a cross-functional team in the field to: 
• Operate, test, and debug our autonomy system end-to-end to ensure functionality is at a customer-ready level. 
• Identify key product requirements for the customer workflows, and design testing scenarios that stress our system.
• Assess software performance, leveraging cloud-based simulation tools to scale our testing.
• Test cutting-edge code, and prepare base software versions for customers.
• Investigate and analyse data to enable issues to be identified and resolved.
• Drive strategic improvements to advance technical capabilities and product quality.
• Maintain high agility to resolve issues at short notice.

What you need to succeed:

• Experience working with autonomous vehicles, ADAS or similar complex robotics systems.
• Experience managing a team of engineers doing product development or delivering an engineering service
• Track record of fostering cross-functional collaboration between engineering, commercial, marketing, sales and other departments
• An analytical mind that can work in a fast-paced complex matrix environment to identify engineering needs and resolve issues
• Must have a strong ability to manage stakeholder communication & risk management across multiple domains
• Excellent written and verbal communication, ability to clearly articulate progress, risks, challenges and strategy to both technical and non-technical teams
• Highly analytical demeanour with an ability to make decisions using both quantitative and qualitative data to drive engineering design, development and operations. 
• Quickly move between contexts, and demonstrate agility and focus while continuing to deliver across multiple work-streams
  
  Extra kudos if you have:
  
• Experience taking a product to market 
• PMP Certification
• MBA

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
• An outstanding £3,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
• A salary exchange pension plan
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• A pet-friendly office environment
• Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs

Our Culture:

We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.

Learn more about our culture here.

Why become an Oxbot?

Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they’re solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times.

But as well as smarts, Oxbots have heart. Our diverse, multi-cultural crew is guided by a shared vision to bring the myriad benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners. And in a company that celebrates uniqueness as much as skill and experience, they do it with energy, conviction and a healthy dose of excitement, too.

If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.