Data Scientist (Operational Domain Intelligence)

Key Skills

C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MLOps tools, Operations, Python Programming

Job Description

Oxa Foundry 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. Tools within Oxa Foundry are also unlocking new opportunities to launch innovative solutions for industries such as commercial fleet insurance and risk management. Leveraging Oxa’s experience in deploying AVs and establishing capabilities to safely scale (by identifying, quantifying, and managing route risk with limited or no pre-existing data), we help organizations in those markets augment and generate new data to develop transformative fleet risk management solutions for their customers.

Your Team

Your team will ensure the company has the right data, at the right time, from the right sources to sustain rapid improvement across all its tools. It will oversee data ownership across our fleet and customers, utilizing data synthesis and expansion, simulation, automatic annotation, and logging where appropriate.

Your Role

• Developing state-of-the-art pipelines for deployment domain analysis, route feasibility checks, domain clustering, classification, representation learning, and data coverage analysis.
• Conducting research with foundational models for data generation and understanding.
• Managing data interpretation, governance, validation findings, and dashboard creation for metrics tracking.
• Contributing to the development of data tools that support and scale system testing and commercial requirements.
• Ensuring data availability across our technology platform, development processes, and customer deployments.
• Collaborating with teams to create specialist tooling and processes supporting company-wide data initiatives.
• Keeping up with advancements in computer vision and tracking research and applying relevant techniques to Oxa MetaDriver.
• Contributing to team backlogs, stand-ups, and meetings.

Requirements

What You Need to Succeed:

• Experience with Machine Learning in a research environment.
• Proficiency in Python software development.
• Experience working with LLMs, VLMs, and other large-scale models.
• Solid software engineering principles and knowledge of Python best practices.
• Ability to balance technical and commercial requirements.
• Expertise in statistical analysis, dataset validation, and introspection.

Extra Kudos If You Have:

• Experience benchmarking and validating synthetic data.
• Machine Learning expertise in data amplification and synthesis.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience in computer vision and robotics, including object detection, tracking, and localization.
• Background in the insurance sector.
• Experience with MLOps.
• Familiarity with autonomous driving software, simulators, or traffic modeling.
• Proficiency in C or C++.

The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way

We design our hiring process to ensure a great fit for both you and Oxa. Each stage offers opportunities to showcase your strengths and gain insight into our company culture. If we’re a match, you’ll be in a position to thrive and make an impact.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, benchmarked and reviewed annually.
• Company share program.
• Hybrid and flexible work arrangements.
• Market-leading private healthcare, life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, and a health cash plan (including gym discounts).
• A £2,000 (pro-rata) flexible benefits fund for additional perks, including tech schemes and cycle-to-work benefits.
• A salary exchange pension plan.
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Pet-friendly office environment.
• Safe, assigned spaces for team members with diverse needs.

Our Culture

Diversity is an ongoing journey. We strive to make self-driving technology accessible to all, fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from all backgrounds can contribute and thrive. We value diversity for its role in driving innovation and actively apply a neuro-inclusive approach to our hiring process.

We promote an open and inclusive workplace that allows employees to bring their whole selves to work. Oxa is committed to best practices in removing bias from our recruitment cycle. Please let us know if you need accommodations or adjustments for the interview process.