Senior Research Engineer (Scenario Expansion)

at  Oxa

WHO ARE WE?

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.

• Researching and developing state of the art pipelines for scenario synthesis, reinforcement learning, motion prediction, representation learning
• Contributing to tooling and processes for benchmarking, filtering, visualisation and comparison of synthetically generated driving scenarios
• Developing state of the art techniques and processes for assuring data coverage
• Keeping up with the latest advances in Machine Learning research, and applying relevant techniques to Oxa MetaDriver
• Contributing to the development tools and process to support the scenario synthesis, acquisition of data, software-in-loop simulation and ML frameworks
• Developing model optimisation techniques
• Developing data visualisation tools
• Contributing to the creation of appropriate data tools that support, amplify, and accelerate our scaling of our system for development, testing, and commercial requirements.
• Contributing to the drive for efficiency around use of data in the company
• Contributing to the effort in making sure the right data is available at the right time
• across our technology platform,
• for our development processes, and
• for our deployments while in use with customers and partners.
• Working with other teams and leads in facilitating the creation of specialist tooling and process supporting the company wide data-agenda in both the data team and in specialist teams.