Senior Engineer

2 weeks ago


Oxford Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxa Full time

Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; 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.Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. You will join our Planning Team, where we design, implement, test and deploy the Engine that drives the behaviour of Oxa’s Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), based on our understanding of our environment.
As a Senior Software Engineer in Decision Making, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and deploying algorithms that realise the desired behaviours that the AV needs to exhibit in any particular scenario. Specifically, this role will focus on Behaviour/ Manoeuvre Planning and Selection in the presence of other actors with uncertain future actions. You will work closely with Prediction and Trajectory Planning to scalably elicit predictable, explainable behaviours in the AV.
Provide technical leadership in the development, integration, and deployment of algorithms that enable AVs to navigate complex on-road environments. Collaborate with the Routing team to incorporate longer-term and higher-level mission objectives
Collaborate with the Trajectory Planning team to realise the actions and select the particular discrete action to be executed
Create appropriate metrics and tools to measure and benchmark the performance of planning algorithms deployed in various environments.
Contribute significantly to the engineering lifecycle, including scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of your team's work.
Contribute to hiring and onboarding at scale by defining role responsibilities and requirements, leading interviews, engaging in recruiting outreach for your team, and mentoring and developing new team members.
PhD in related field (Mech Eng, Aerospace, Comp Science, Robotics, Mechatronics) with additional professional experience is desired
~ MS in related field (Mech Eng, Aerospace, Comp Science, Robotics, Mechatronics) with extensive professional experience is acceptable
~ Practical experience with Behaviour Planning, Decision Making and Trajectory Planning, preferably in Self Driving
~ 2D/3D Geometry & transformations
~ Modern C++ algorithm development and deployment in a production environment (including STL and common testing frameworks)
Experience with Machine Learning
Exposure to Game Theory
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. 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
~ Funded relocation support
~ Fully funded Visa sponsorship if required
~ A salary exchange pension plan
~25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
~ A pet-friendly office environment
~ We believe that diversity of thought and experience is a key driver of innovation. So ours is a culture that celebrates humanity in all its diversity and richness, and uses difference as fuel to grow and succeed together. 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.
If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.



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