Solutions Engineer

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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 white-boarding 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

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

Bachelor's / MASc degree or equivalent experience in computer science or robotics.

Demonstrated experience in  development/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 to a technical solution or service.

Extra kudos if you have:

Experience in

Launching a robotics/autonomous product.

The ability to translate customer concepts and requirements to a technical solution or service

Using project management tools to facilitate on time delivery

Knowledge of, and/or experience working with some of the following:

Robotics: localisation, mapping, planning, perception, ML/semantic understanding, control, sensing modalities, commissioning & calibration

Development: C++/Python, Linux, shell scripting, networking, version control

Engineering: systems integration, POC prototyping, V&V, platform hardware and configuration, on the field troubleshooting

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company share programme

Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements

An outstanding £3,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection

Funded relocation support

Fully funded Visa sponsorship if required

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.

Flexibility

We create the conditions to help you do your best. We do all we can to create opportunities for everyone regardless of personal circumstances. As part of this commitment, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements including:

Remote working

Extended parental leave

Unpaid sabbatical

We work 37.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday around core hours of 10:00 - 16:00. This is enough for most; but if you require any extra flexibility we will do what we can to support.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are on a journey to enable all vehicles to do more - we need unique people to get there.

Knowing that diversity drives innovation, brings different approaches, ideas and points of view, we embrace individuality & inclusion and are committed to an environment where everyone irrespective of background, can be the best they can be.

We celebrate building a culture where difference is valued. We are universal - Universal Autonomy.

Help us solve one of the world's greatest engineering challenges by being yourself