Job Description

Who are we?

Oxbotica is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly across the UK, Canada and the US. As the global leader in autonomous vehicle software for businesses, we are fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy\xe2\x84\xa2 is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously \xe2\x80\x94 safely, securely and efficiently.

Our technology is also capturing investors\xe2\x80\x99 imagination. As announced in January this year, to date we\xe2\x80\x99ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving Oxbotica\xe2\x80\x99s geographical expansion in North America, EMEA and APAC, and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.

Requirements

The Role:

Systems Performance is a family of enabling / platform discipline teams that are responsible for end-to-end performance of our reference autonomy system. This includes hardware selection (i.e., sensors & compute) to software optimisation and, most importantly, the tools and platforms necessary to enable all teams to measure key metrics for performance. As a leader of many, your role will be to coach, mentor, train, advocate for, support, and help foster growth of our teams in all dimensions.

Oxbotica\xe2\x80\x99s Customer Autonomy (CA) teams are supported by a Universal Autonomy (UA) platform. As Lead of Systems Performance, you will ultimately be accountable for ensuring the team remains aligned to a technical roadmap that serves both our UA and CA Streams. This will require a deep understanding of our products and customers \xe2\x80\x93 one of the core tenants at the heart of Oxbotica.

At its core, the Systems Performance family is an enabling / platform team that develops tools and services to enable the measurement of hardware and software compute performance for all Oxbotica applications. Specific responsibilities for these teams include the following,

• Tooling: Tools for measuring and improving compute performance.
• Training: Training (both active and passive) on tools and practices related to compute performance.
• Audits: Scheduled and On-Demand audits of compute performance to keep teams informed.
• Assistance: Expertise as needed to help teams achieve peak performance.
• Reference Autonomy System: Development of a reference autonomy platform (hardware + software) for verification and validation.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for mentoring, coaching, training, and supporting the team in their professional, technical, and career development.
• Accountable for ensuring that all teams stay aligned to an internal technical roadmap.
• Ensuring the technical roadmap is architected to serve the needs of our UA / CA Streams.
• Accountable for maintaining and developing core performance monitoring tools that span both hardware and software (e.g., messaging rate monitoring, CPU/GPU performance monitoring, network, power, etc.)
• Able to foster a culture around developing high-performance, production-quality systems and establishing training / seminars to disseminate across the business.
• Responsible for ensuring that all teams are adhering to development best practices and constantly raising this bar.
• Embodying and teaching our family members about the value of our Leadership Principles (LPs).
• Ensuring that the family is receiving world-class Engineering Experience, in the form of Learning & Development (L&D) programmes, team-building / growth exercises, and technical tools / platforms to accelerate our development.

• Reporting on team progress via a 2x2s with metrics around team delivery, health, and technology.
• Coordinating and facilitating alignment meetings / reviews with team leads.
• Coordinating / assisting SAT Leads on performance reviews, as well as performance reviews for anyone on the team not represented in SATs.
• Immediately addressing and resolving any issues impacting the team (e.g., technical, organisational, or people-related.)

What you will need to succeed:

• Strong alignment with all of Oxbotica\xe2\x80\x99s Leadership Principles.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written), with a particular emphasis on documentation / reporting at a high-level of proficiency.
• Demonstrable experience in managing / facilitating teams in complex software engineering / systems environments, within a company that has a growth mindset.
• A deep understanding of how the technologies being developed deliver value to the customer, with an ability to communicate this to the broader team.
• Demonstrable experience in thinking laterally, spotting technical & process gaps, unblocking, and resolving.
• Managed large teams in the past, responsible for delivery of products and/or complex systems.

• A deep understanding of robotics as a system.
• Significant experience in software development and delivery.

Benefits

Our Process:

As an integral step of our hiring model, we ask you to complete our Work Sample Questions as part of the application process. These questions help us to assess your capabilities to work with us and also form part of our de-biased recruitment journey.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
• An outstanding \xc2\xa33,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
• 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. Oxbotica 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

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 Oxbotica.

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