Senior C++ Software Developer

Who are we?

Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxa is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).

As the global leader in our industry, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy™ is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously — safely, securely and efficiently.

Our technology is capturing investors’ imagination. To date we’ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA, and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.

Requirements

The Role:

The Solutions team is the first point of contact when engaging with new customers in the business, and are responsible for developing unique configurations of the Oxa Driver Platform to suit customer requirements and constraints. They deploy different configurations of Oxa Driver to vehicles in the field for early customer programs to assess feasibility and explore other possible solutions that can add value to the customer.

For customers where we are integrating Oxa Driver into their platform, we need to provide a well-documented set of APIs, with diagnostic and validation tools. We need to be able to enable our customers to integrate Oxa Driver with ease, flexibility, and safety in mind.

This specific role is around the architecture of a universal approach to creating the necessary interface layer to our customers, with an eye towards performance, safety, and extensibility to other customers. This will require an experienced senior software developer to own the end-to-end delivery of this architecture, initially anchored within a customer program focused on autonomous shuttle services.

Responsibilities:

• Developing the diagnostic and validation tools necessary to ensure these integrations are safe and performant.
• Participating in regular stand ups, team meetings, and 1-2-1’s as part of your role.
• Responsible for implementing a given architecture as a general solution for how we can interface Oxa Driver to customer platforms.
• Responsible for identifying and immediately addressing performance-related issues that impede commercial deployment of systems.
• Contributing to sprint cycles so as to bring in sprint activity on time, including planning, reviewing, and highlighting risk or scope creep against project requirements
• Collaborating with other team members, suggesting and discussing high-level approaches to solve problems, code reviews & pair programming.
• Produce high-quality design documents internally for review.
• Responsible for developing high-quality documentation for our APIs that can be used by our customers.
• Provide immediate delivery of an instance of this architecture, initially anchored within our autonomous shuttle programme.
• Ensure that our software and algorithms are performant and consume as little resources as possible.

What you need to succeed:

• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven systems.
• Experience in writing performant C++ software
• Bachelor’s / MASc degree or equivalent experience in computer science or robotics
• Experience with interprocess communication
• Experience with profiling software

Extra kudos if you have:

• Excellence in C++
• A robotics background and/or any prior experience fielding robotic systems
• Experience in writing high-performance software for embedded systems

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:

• Critical Illness Cover
• Extended Health Care
• Personal Spending Account
• AD&D Insurance
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• Health Spending Account
• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Dental Cover
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

Our Culture:

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.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. 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

Why become an Oxbot?

Our team of engineers, mathematicians and experts in AI, machine learning and much else is truly world-class. They are 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, 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.