Senior Software Engineer (Trajectory Planning)

Key Skills

Algorithms, C++, Leadership, Model Predictive Control-MPC, Optimization, People management, Software Development

Job Description

Your Team

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 its understanding of its environment.

Your Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in Trajectory Planning, 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 planning the spatio-temporal trajectories that manifest the desired actions that the AV is executing in the presence of other actors while obeying traffic rules. You will work closely with Decision Making and Controls to plan and execute manoeuvres in a smooth, comfortable, and precise manner.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with your Team Lead and team members to solve Spatio-Temporal motion planning problems, including off-the-shelf solver evaluation and custom solver implementation.
• Collaborate with the Decision Making team to transcribe nuanced manoeuvres in complex on- and off-road environments into generalised Trajectory Planning problems.
• Collaborate with the Controls team to ensure Smooth, Comfortable, Precise manoeuvre execution for on- and off-road applications.
• Contribute to the development of high quality functionality and APIs that allow the Planner functionality to be used as a building block for on-vehicle capabilities.
• Create appropriate metrics and tools to measure and benchmark the performance of Planners deployed on various AV platforms.
• Work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to ensure the right solutions are delivered, and actively contribute to resolving disagreements through constructive dialog.
• Contribute significantly to the engineering lifecycle, including scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of your team's work.
• Influence technical strategy within the Planning Team, ensuring alignment with your Team Lead and your counterparts in other teams.
• Document and train others on your team's work, focus on improving features, and understand the business and customer value of your team's work.
• Positively impact product quality, customer experience, and maintainability, and take on projects that improve team processes and solutions.
• 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.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• PhD in related field (Mech Eng, Aerospace, Comp Science, Robotics, Mechatronics) with 2+ years of professional experience is desired
• MS in related field (Mech Eng, Aerospace, Comp Science, Robotics, Mechatronics) with 4+ years of professional experience is acceptable
• Extensive hands-on experience of optimisation-based trajectory planning
• Experience with sampling-based trajectory planning approaches
• Experience with trajectory planning problem formulation and problem transcription
• Modern C++ algorithm development and deployment, ideally in a production environment (including STL and common testing frameworks)

Who are we?

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.