Field Engineer (Solutions)

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

The Solutions Team is an emerging team at Oxa that is a unique blend of technical and commercial problem solvers that have experience in deploying robotic systems in the field and solving problems with autonomy. Members of the team have the opportunity to try on many hats - both technically across the autonomy stack and spanning from writing code to white boarding with customers to find the best solution.

The Solutions Team specifies (and may develop) tools required for delivering successful solutions. The team strives to understand all parts of the system to a level in which they can present and explain each of those components/modules of technology to a customer and how it contributed to the overall solution.

Members of the Solutions Team are a dynamic and engaged group of people from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, all working together towards our goal of Universal Autonomy with an obsessive customer focus.

You will initially be given technical ownership of a program to develop a customer solution using one or more components of our autonomy stack. This is a fast-paced, wide-reaching role that will provide exposure across all components in our architecture and requires an experienced technical leader that also implements and delivers (i.e., a hybrid technical leadership / IC role)

Your Role

• Accountable for technical roadmap generation and end-to-end delivery of these solutions for our various customer solutions.
• Accountable for the creation / maintenance for documenting the architecture of SW systems, APIs and decision flows.

• Responsible for design-to-implementation of some of our solutions.
• Responsible for building, upgrading and maintaining maps for customer testing and deployments.
• Responsible for coordinating, driving, and facilitating alignment meetings with the team to ensure delivery is on time.
• Responsible for identifying and immediately addressing performance-related issues that impede commercial deployment of systems.
• Responsible for maintaining a dashboard and regular report on KPIs that are owned by the team.
• Responsible for collaborating with other team members, suggesting and discussing high-level approaches to solve problems, code reviews & pair programming.
• Responsible for participating in regular stand ups, team meetings, and 1-2-1’s as part of your role.
• Responsible for contributing to sprint cycles so as to bring in sprint activity on time, including planning, reviewing, and highlighting risk or scope creep against project requirements.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s / MASc degree or equivalent experience in computer science or robotics
• > 1 years experience in writing C++ software
• Demonstrated experience in development / delivery of robotics system and participation in product in a commercial or industrial setting
• Demonstrated experience in HW/SW interfacing and integration
  
  

Extra kudos if you have:

• Python: experience using tools to create
• Robotics and hardware
• Platform hardware and configuration
• The ability to translate customer concepts and requirements to a technical solution or service.
• Able to discuss a program equally well with the customer as with engineers.

Benefits

We provide:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working