Staff Engineer (Solutions Delivery)

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. Together they have experience in deploying robotic systems in the field and supporting clients with their solutions. Members of the team have the opportunity to be versatile in their roles, spanning from writing proficient code to white boarding with customers to find the best solution.

The Solutions Team identifies and develops tools required for delivering successful outcomes, striving to understand all parts of the system to a level in which they can relay to their customer demographic.

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.

As a Staff Engineer, you will be given technical ownership of a pivotal program to develop customer solutions for a key client, managing the coordination, direction and output of a field based team.

This is a fast-paced, reactive role that will provide exposure across all areas of our architecture, requiring an experienced technical leader that also implements and delivers.

Your Role

• Deliver milestones of the technical roadmap and provide end-to-end delivery of solutions for key customer groups across a regional domain.
• Accountable for the creation and maintenance of documentation related to the integration, testing, issue tracking and updates to software systems, APIs and decision flows with the Oxa software stack.
• Responsible for delivering solutions to customers from requirement collection through to integration and delivery
• Manage the coordination, drive and facilitation of meetings with the technical and field-based team to ensure efficient output 
• Responsible for identifying and addressing performance-related issues that impede commercial deployment of systems.
• Maintaining a dashboard and regular report on KPIs that are managed by the team.
• Continually collaborating with team members, suggesting and discussing high-level approaches to solve problems, code reviews & pair programming.
• 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
• Extensive experience in technical leadership, also able to collaborate with non-technical teams
• A solid background in Robotics, including both Hardware and Software exposure 
• A foundation knowledge of coding languages C++ and Python
• Demonstrated experience in development / delivery of robotics systems
• The ability to lead and direct teams in multiple locations across different time zones
  

Extra kudos if you have:

• Previous hands on software development experience 
• Experience of working within the Autonomous Vehicle industry
• Platform hardware and software configuration and integration experience

Benefits

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked frequently
• Hybrid working arrangements
• PTO 25 days
• United Healthcare Medical Insurance - we cover 95% with 5% employee contribution
• 401k Retirement plan with Safe Harbour
• Life Assurance
• AD&D Insurance
• Short and Long Te