Staff Validation Engineer

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Description

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 Team

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

Engineer focussed on validation of the use of simulation and modelling techniques within MetaDriver stream. Initially focussed on Simulation validation.

Will create and manage a Simulation and Modelling Management System that will be used as part of the Oxa Assurance system and certification processes

Will prepare, schedule, coordinate, and carry out testing of simulation assumptions against real world data where necessary

Will input into Simulation roadmap and identify existing or upcoming gaps in requirements of Oxa teams

Will contribute to the development of software sensor models

Will keep abreast of industry standards and best practices (e.g ASAM)

Work alongside Stream/SAT leads to enable tracking of progress (e.g. Jira).

Promote and champion stream activities to the rest of the organisation.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

Simulation and Modelling Management: Ability to collate and interrogate existing systems, identify gaps, document and build validation cases

Technical understanding: Demonstrated understanding of complex technical systems (e.g. robotics or similar), ability to translate between technical and product terminology for external parties. Able to independently prioritise and identify strategic requirements.

Cross-functional facilitation: Able to work across a company to achieve validation goals (e.g. launchpad & Reference Platform sensor model testing)

Data analytics: Ability to collect metrics, use statistical arguments to validate systems

Communication: Able to advocate and communicate results widely and effectively to internal and external customers

Project management: Capable of self-management

Extra Kudos

Has built a simulator (or game engine)

Experience with vendors such as Nvidia/RFPro

Has defined coverage / evaluation frameworks

Has created/trained ML models

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.[Link to careers page.]