AV Research Engineer (Safety Assurance)

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

You will join and support our Assurance team, where we set the North Star for assurance and prepare for the safe commercial deployment of all of our products.

Your Role

As our AV Research Engineer you will work within the Assurance Team to deliver assurance initiatives including process upgrade, evaluating risk decisions and reviewing safety and assurance cases.

Alongside this you will also:

• Work within internal Solutions Squads to collaboratively develop safety cases and assurance cases and accelerate commercial AV deployments.
• Research and develop innovative methods to generate the evidence we need to assure stakeholders and ourselves that we are ready to deploy our products.

• Create and maintain tools to demonstrate alignment with Oxa safety standards and regulatory requirements 
• Work with teams to define assurance principles regarding AV safety and lawfulness and work with engineering teams to deliver these.
• Engaging and interacting with all development streams and engineers from different areas of the business to create awareness and promote safety and assurance as part of the development process.
• Work with the assurance team and engineers to define risk acceptance criteria for different deployments and scenarios.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• Proven experience safety engineering and risk management 
• Enthusiastic about AV safety and assurance 
• Good understanding of safety principles and tolerability of risk 
• Familiar with safety cases and safety arguments 
• Good communication skills on technical subjects

Extra kudos:

• Knowledge of safety cases for Autonomous vehicles

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

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• 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

Our Culture

We believe that diversity of thought and experience is a key driver of innovation. It also makes life, and work, more interesting. So ours is a culture that celebrates humanity in all its diversity and richness, and uses difference as fuel to grow and succeed together. Everyone is welcome, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued. And our work and people are all the better for it.  

Learn more about our culture here.[Link to careers page.]

Why become an Oxbot?  

Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they’re solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times. 

But as well as smarts, Oxbots have heart. Our diverse, multi-cultural crew is guided by a shared vision to bring the myriad benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners. And in a company that celebrates uniqueness as much as skill and experience, they do it with energy, conviction and a healthy dose of excitement, too.  

If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.