Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Description

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.

Your Team

You will join our Safety Team, collaborating with and guiding our Product Engineering functions to ensure that we’re developing and delivering safe, robust and certifiable products for use by our customers

Your Role

Develop innovative safety engineering approaches that transcend current AV safety challenges

Ensure that Oxa’s products are developed in accordance with safety engineering relevant standards including ISO 26262, ISO/DIS 21448 and other related and emerging standards.

Provide input and help develop the safety engineering process and related activities covering the concept phase, system and software product development.

Define and implement the verification and validation strategy for system safety, liaising with cross functional teams.

Plan, track and report safety achievement of assigned projects and generate safety cases. Recommend improvements and escalate concerns as appropriate.

Perform safety analyses at the system and software levels using relevant engineering methods like FTA, FMEA, STPA, DFA etc.

Derive and define safety requirements and support the creation of test cases and validation criteria.

Coordinate and manage the safety requirements from customers or to suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Support cross-functional teams on safety engineering subjects

Support internal or external safety assessments/audits

Support and be part of the continued development of the safety leadership culture at Oxa

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

A solid understanding and passion for safety

Proven experience in the implementation of functional safety and/or SOTIF

Proven experience working in the following fields: Safety engineering and Autonomous vehicle operations

Good knowledge and expertise on the state of the art and relevant safety standards, including ISO 26262, PAS 21448, ISO TS 5083 or similar

Good communication skills on technical subjects to a variety of audiences at different technical levels

Collaborative and proactive communication approach

Extra Kudos

Experience with the full safety engineering lifecycle

Previous experience of working on vehicle autonomy or advanced ADAS programmes (L3)

Background in Software Engineering or Robotics

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

Compensation and Benefits

We Provide

Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually

Company share programme

Hybrid and/or flexible work 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 flexible £2,000 (pro-rata) benefits fund to spend on additional benefits of your choice, including tech scheme and cycle to work benefits

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

Diversity is a marathon not a sprint! It is a journey with no destination. 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 apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. 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.

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.[Link to careers page.]