Vehicle Systems Integration Engineer

Who are we?

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 Role

• Integrate complex vehicle systems into a coherent whole to enable our software to be developed and tested on our autonomous vehicles.
• Working practically with our autonomous vehicles, demonstrating passion for robotics and autonomous systems
• Using your understanding of the physics of self-driving car sensing technology (e.g. LiDAR, Cameras, RADAR)
• Demonstrating your familiarity with all levels of calibration of robotics systems (vehicle, sensor intrinsic, sensor extrinsic).
• Investigating the combination of the autonomous software stack and new hardware to ensure functionality is as intended.
• Using your strong data exploration experience to ensure each new platforms are delivered to the same Oxbotica standard.
• Basic software development for integration of hardware and improving the automation process.
• Commission a new data logger.
• Write and perform test cases for these systems.
• Understand the safety and legislative requirements for your work.
• CANbus systems scrutiny and design
• Debug electrical and hardware problems for new components integrated on test vehicles.

Documentation:

• Contributing to internal process documents around the design, test, build and sign-off of new platforms
• Contributing to internal user documentation for the commissioning process for repeat vehicles
• Producing Field Bugs documents and participating in agile planning processes (Jira)
• Contributing to Autonomous Vehicle Daily Checklists.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• A degree in Engineering or related subject
• Automotive, Robotics or similar industry background in System Engineering
• Familiarity with python scripting, or similar for automation
• Previous background working with rapid prototyping vehicle software (e.g. Matlab / Simulink / dSPACE)
• Knowledge of CANbus systems
• Be able to work well under pressure and with tight timelines
• Positive approach to problem solving and ability to 'think on your feet'
• Able to proactively preempt problems and seize opportunities, iteratively discuss solutions and ideas with software teams.
• Knowledge of key elements of autonomous systems
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of complex systems and an appreciation of how components of these systems interact with each other and with the real world through hardware interfaces
• Excellent communication skills, it will be important to be able to communicate with people at all levels in our small, but growing business
• You will be an innovator, lots of our opportunities will require novel, custom solutions

Extra kudos:

• A background of using UNIX/Linux
• Knowledge of working with commissioning prototype autonomous platforms
• Automotive industry exposure with prototype test vehicles
• Hands-on background of building and modifying cars and/or robots
• Full driving license

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

Compensation and 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

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 here.