Senior Engineer - MetaDriver

Key Skills

Cloud computing, Leadership, Machine learning techniques, SaaS, Simulation software

Job Description

Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxa is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).

As the global leader in our industry, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy™ is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously — safely, securely and efficiently.

Our technology is capturing investors’ imagination. To date we’ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA, and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.

Your Team

Oxa MetaDriver is a suite of tools that combines generative AI, digital twins and simulation to accelerate machine learning and testing of self-driving technology before and during real-world use. You will join our Oxa MetaDriver Team which is responsible for delivering these technologies to both internal and external customers. It comprises a wide range of disciplines from ML and simulation, to application development, cloud engineering and data capture professionals.

Your Role

• Ensure Customer Projects using MetaDriver technologies are successfully delivered and used by Internal and External customers
• Be a lead, coach and mentor to the Customer Engineering Team, demonstrating Oxa values and Leadership Principles
• Be a conduit for customer feedback back into the wider MetaDriver Product Engineering Team, in particular working closely with the MetaDriver Product Manager.
• Providing technical pre-sales, and supporting marketing activities such as trade shows
• Oversee customer solutions based on MetaDriver and Oxa technologies, such as Sensor Expansion or Simulation, being able to use and demonstrate such solutions to help identify issues and bugs.
• Oversee MetaDriver Technical Documentation and Training for customers
• Stay on top of competitor technologies and AV market regulations for Virtual Test Environments
• Collaboration and communication with other specialist teams
• Leading sprint cycles so as to bring in sprint activity on time, including planning, reviewing, and highlighting risk or scope creep against project requirements

• Contributing to the hiring process and onboarding for new team members
• Collaborating with your team members to keep Jira items current and updated
• Liaising with leaders throughout the company to understand the overall drive, direction and technical requirements of the company, and how that impacts and steers your team.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• Experience as team lead of engineers, ideally on a SaaS based product
• Client facing experience, such as technical pre-sales, customer support, FAE roles
• Demonstrable knowledge of ML systems from hands-on experience
• Worked in client led project environments (e.g. software consultancy)
• Familiar with cloud environments and developing custom solutions
• Flexibility in working, able to thrive with uncertainty (e.g. worked in start ups)

Extra kudos:

• Experience developing SaaS based products with strong ML/training elements to it
• AV simulation and testing

• A natural curiosity about the world and a can-do attitude.
• A love of collaboration.
• 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.
• An ability to build trust quickly with team members and other stakeholders.
• An open mind. We call ourselves ‘Learn it alls’ because we need to remain open to possibilities
• 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
• 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
• 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.

We apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.

Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.

Learn more about our culture.

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.