Staff Software Engineer

4 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Oxa Full time

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 growing Perception effort, where we design, implement, test and deploy the software that provides the semantic understanding of the situations Oxa’s Autonomous Vehicles find along their routes.

Your Role

As our Staff Engineer (Team Lead - Semantic Fusion) you will lead a small team of people responsible for optimising Perception-based algorithms for Oxa Driver to yield 1deg/1cm error (heading, range, pose)

In this role you will be:

  • Working with a variety of sensors, including cameras, LIDAR, radar.
  • Developing custom algorithms in C++ to improve the algorithm performance of the ML models for perception systems
  • Developing core perception algorithms (C++) for sensor-agnostic static/dynamic object detection and classification.
  • Working alongside ML and C++ engineers to implement algorithms on-vehicle
  • Working closely with and support Stream Lead in developing and maintaining technical roadmaps to deliver Oxa Driver capabilities
  • Managing user acceptance testing, involving customers to ensure they are satisfied
  • Documenting technical specifications of delivered technical products/services
  • Implementing relevant analytics to track product performance and adoption
  • Monitoring compliance to applicable standards and practices, raise risks and issues
  • Establishing and maintain a successful deliverables track record 
  • Driving standardisation and repeatability for algorithm development and testing
  • Working with Solutions customers and partners for successful deployments
  • Effectively handing over products to Solutions 
  • Representing Oxa to customer stakeholders, ensuring technical and delivery excellence and acting as a trusted advisor

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

  • Knowledge and experience of State-of-the-art techniques for 3D Perception algorithms optimisation
  • Strong proficiency in developing and debugging C++ code 
  • Experience developing and training Machine Learning / Deep Learning algorithms with frameworks such as Tensorflow/Pytorch
  • Proficiency in Python with associated data processing / machine learning toolkits (Numpy, Scipy, Tensorflow/PyTorch, Jupyter notebooks, etc)
  • Able to collaborate closely with internal and external teams and build trust
  • Strong technical acumen and passion for learning
  • Coordination of people and milestone tracking
  • Proactive problem solver with strong analytical skills
  • Excellent communication and organisational abilities

Extra kudos:

  • Experience working at the interface between software and hardware: deploying, configuring, debugging and evaluating.
  • Experience using project management tools to facilitate on time delivery

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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