Engineering Manager (Software Infrastructure)

About Us

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 that equip vehicles with full self-driving functionality. We utilise Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments alongside 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 Role

As an Engineering Manager at Oxa, you'll be part of a team building a distributed high-performance system that tackles a fascinating range of technical challenges. From massive-scale data handling with caching and persistence requirements to interprocess communication, low-level networking, or integration of machine learning workloads on GPUs, the system touches on almost every aspect of modern software engineering. A heavily multi-threaded runtime adds another layer of depth for those who enjoy concurrency and performance tuning. Whether you want to contribute broadly or focus deeply on a particular area, there's room to grow and make a meaningful impact. This role also offers the chance to engage with the foundational aspects of software architecture - navigating API design, migrations, versioning, usability, backwards compatibility, and managing dependencies. If you've ever aspired to grow into a software architect, this is the kind of environment that makes it real.

You will:

• Work closely with engineering teams to design robust CI/CD pipelines for a large autonomy code base, whilst thinking about how we will manage and update those software systems in production.
• Understand and maintain the core libraries of our autonomy software, closely working with the team to triage and prioritise support requests.
• Review new features and improve existing solutions. Ensuring we continuously raise the bar on code quality, operability, including security, reliability, and scale.
• Define and schedule work packages that fit into the company priorities and support our fast paced development of autonomy solutions.

What you need to succeed:

• Strong experience with CI/CD systems, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.
• Experience managing a multi-discipline engineering team.
• Experience with large code bases and third-party dependencies, ideally in the C++ and/or Python ecosystem(s).
• Experience with containerisation (Docker), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and cloud compute (GCP, AWS, etc.).
• A solid understanding of DevOps principles and methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to a variety of technical and less technical audiences.

Extra kudos if you have:

• Experience with conan, the C++ package manager.
• Understanding of software design and architecture.
• Experience in mentoring junior software engineers.

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.

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 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.