Mechanical Design Engineer

2 weeks ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxa Full time

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
You will join our Fleet team, working at the critical intersection of autonomy software and vehicle platform integration. As part of this team, you'll be designing, testing and delivering hardware that will unlock the benefits of autonomy to our custimers.

Your Role

  • To specify and design concepts for mounting mechanical components, mounts and assemblies,ensuring the final installations are robust and fit for deployment environments of autonomous vehicles
  • To deliver complex, electro-mechanical assemblies from concept to low volume production
  • To liaise closely with various teams to identify integration and design requirements. With a focus on functionality, reliability, DFM / DFA
  • Produce assembly drawings and detail drawings specifying materials, tolerances and assembly notes for outsourcing
  • To produce bills of materials specifying components and potential suppliers
  • To support vendor selection to provide cost effective manufactured parts
  • Provide assistance with the build process

What you need to succeed:

  • Mechanical design experience with Solidworks, or an equivalent CAD package.
  • Hands-on Prototyping experience
  • Production of drawing packs for manufacture
  • Static loadcase analysis, fatigue simulation, frequency/vibration simulation

Extra kudos:

  • Automotive OEM or Tier1 supplier or similar industry proven design experience
  • Experience of designing, developing and deploying mechanical systems from a prototype concept through to a robust integrated on-vehicle solution.
  • Worked with Product Lifecycle Management software
  • Worked in a collaborative environment with members from different backgrounds

The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way

No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we're a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you're selected, you're then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.

Compensation and Benefits

We provide:

  • Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
  • Company share programme
  • Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
  • Core benefits of market leading private healthcare, life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, alongside a company paid health cash plan (including gym discounts)
  • A flexible £2,000 (pro-rata) benefits fund to spend on additional benefits of your choice, including tech scheme and cycle to work benefits
  • 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

Diversity is a marathon not a sprint It is a journey with no destination. We are on a mission to unlock the benefits of self-driving technology to every person and organisation on the planet. We are creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work which put simply is the right thing to do. We hire and nurture those we can learn from, valuing diversity and the innovation that this drives.

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