Autonomous Solutions Engineer
Oxa, United Kingdom
Job Description
Oxais 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
The Solutions Team is a rapidly growing team at Oxa. It owns the whole customer lifecycle, and is charged with leveraging Oxa's world class expertise to deliver real world, commercially viable autonomous solutions that provide genuine, demonstrable value to customers. As such, the team is a unique blend of technical and commercial problem solvers that have experience in deploying robotic systems in the field and solving problems with autonomy. Members of the team have the opportunity to try on many hats - both technically across the autonomy stack and spanning from writing code to whiteboarding with customers to find the best solution.
The Solutions Team specifies (and may develop) tools required for delivering successful solutions. The team strives to understand all parts of the system to a level in which they can present and explain each of those components/modules of technology to a customer and how it contributed to the overall solution. Members of the Solutions Team are a dynamic and engaged group of people from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, all working together towards our goal of Universal Autonomy with an obsessive customer focus.
Your Role
As a member of a Solutions Squad you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of an autonomy solution to a customer. This is a fast-paced, wide-reaching role that will provide exposure across all components in our architecture and requires someone with a broad robotics experience who can, as part of a team, design, implement and deliver these autonomous solutions.
The Solutions squad responsibilities include:
- Working with customers to define requirements
- Carrying out technical gap analysis and generating new feature requests where necessary
- Developing the safety case (route analysis, risk assessments and operational procedures)
- Vehicle acceptance testing and shakedown
- Commissioning, calibrating, deploying and verifying compute, software, sensing and networking.
- Building, upgrading and maintaining AV maps.
- In-field AV monitoring, debugging, tuning and post mortem analysis
- Working with the launch team to develop plan for ongoing customer support
You will be accountable for:
- Accountable for technical roadmap generation, and end-to-end delivery of these autonomy solutions to our customers.
- Accountable for the creation and maintenance of documentation detailing software architecture, APIs and decision flows.
- Responsible for developing a strong understanding of customer use-cases and requirements, and designing and implementing solutions to address these.
- Responsible for efficient and timely solution delivery through participating in regular sprint and alignment meetings, and through helping to identify and address any risks, technical gaps, scope creep, or performance-related issues that may impede commercial deployment of our systems.
- Responsible for collaborating and knowledge sharing with the wider Oxa team, developing a broad understanding of the various autonomy components and tools, and using this knowledge to deploy, debug and tune solutions in the field.
Requirements
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s / MASc degree or equivalent experience in computer science or robotics.
- Demonstrated experience indevelopment/delivery of robotics systems, and participation in product in a commercial or industrial setting.
- Working at the interface between software and hardware: deploying, configuring, debugging and evaluating.
- Excellent communication and team working skills.
- Able to translate customer concepts and requirements t