Senior Engineer - Platform Engineering in Oxford

Who are we? Founded in 2014, Oxa is a global leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, dedicated to accelerating Industrial Mobile Autonomy (IMA). We develop advanced physical AI and robotics technology, anchored around our configurable and explainable self-driving software, Oxa Driver; development toolchain, Oxa Foundry; and fleet management software, Oxa Hub. We utilise hardware blueprints known as Reference Autonomy Designs (RADs) to enable the integration of sensors, compute and drive-by-wire systems into existing vehicles produced by OEMs. Our solutions automate repetitive industrial driving tasks, such as the towing and carrying of goods in locations like ports, airports and manufacturing facilities, or asset and perimeter monitoring in environments such as solar farms or industrial plants. We’re helping global businesses to address critical challenges like labour shortages and rising operational costs - driving efficiency, productivity, and safety.

Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada, our engineering team is drawn from the world’s top physical AI specialists and led by originators of the field.

Your Role: Joining us as a Senior Engineer within our Platform Engineering Function, you will focus on the design and development of solutions for a range of products and projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work in engineering teams to design systems for operability, whilst thinking about how we will manage, update, and monitor those systems in production.
• Review and improve existing solutions, ensuring we continuously raise the bar on operability, including security, reliability, and scale.
• Work closely with stream-aligned teams to provide expertise and support for the implementation and management of their environments.

What you need to succeed:

• Strong experience with installing, configuring, and managing Linux environments.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
• Experience with cloud, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Relevant experience with building and maintaining CI/CD systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with containerisation and container orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with architecting, maintaining, and building efficient, cost-effective scalable infrastructure.
• A solid understanding of DevOps principles and methodologies.

Extra Kudos if you have:

• Experience with GCP-specific Kubernetes/GKE at scale, especially with GPU-based workloads.
• Experience with enforcing security best practice in line with compliance requirements.
• Experience with CNCF tooling, such as ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflows, Kyverno, Kueue/MultiKueue, KEDA.
• Experience in mentoring others throughout the organisation.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually.
• Company share programme.
• Hybrid and/or flexible remote working 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 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 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 promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day.

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. 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, we 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.