Lead Safety and Cyber Security Engineer

3 weeks ago


Oxford, 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 Safety Engineering Team where we are developing the safety concepts, solutions and argumentation in order to achieve safety and unlock autonomy through safety engineering.

Your Role

As our Lead Safety and Cyber Security Engineer, you will work to develop cyber safety considerations for the Core Safety Case of our products. You will work closely with core safety engineers on our platform safety and also with application safety engineers (e.g. customer projects) to map the Core Safety Case to their specific domains and also the Autonomy Assurance team to align on regulations pertaining to safety relevant cyber security.

In this role, you will:

  • Perform and support safety focused cyber security analyses: TARA, attack trees etc.
  • Perform safety relevant cyber security requirements elicitation and derivation, cascade and monitor their delivery
  • Implement and / or support developers in implementing safety relevant cyber security mitigations
  • Recommend and implement appropriate cyber security standards and processes in support of Oxa’s safety approach
  • Act as a central source of knowledge on safety relevant cyber security topics, and collaborate with the wider business and cyber security team to support meeting relevant safety and cyber security legislation and regulations
  • Lead the technical assessment of the impact of cyber security on safety relevant architecture and components and negotiate solutions with component and architecture stakeholders
  • Support safety relevant cyber security validation
  • Support the safety argumentation related to cyber security threats and vulnerabilities

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

  • Degree in a relevant field such as engineering or science.
  • Cyber security background with a focus on safety.
  • Practical experience in cyber threats identification, cyber security analyses, risk assessment etc.
  • Understanding of how cyber security vulnerabilities can potentially lead to safety relevant hazardous scenarios
  • Experience in different methods for cyber security mitigations and understand the associated benefits and challenges with each type.
  • Build networks and engage across multi discipline teams
  • Experience in metrics and data analysis
  • Formal experience/knowledge of ISO 21434.

Extra kudos:

  • Experience in research and development, autonomous driving
  • Familiar with ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL4600, PAS 1881:2022, SAE J3016.
  • Proven agility in fast-changing environments. As a scale-up, we’re constantly evolving so our people need to evolve too for us to succeed together.
  • A customer-centric outlook. Chances are you won’t be directly customer facing, but we value people who anticipate and prioritise the needs of our customers. We call it ‘inventing on their behalf.’

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.

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

We believe that diversity of thought and experience is a key driver of innovation. It also makes life, and work, more interesting. So ours is a culture that celebrates humanity in all its diversity and richness, and uses difference as fuel to grow and succeed together. Everyone is welcome, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued. And our work and people are all the better for it.

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.



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