Process Engineer - Vehicle Development
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 Vehicle Engineering team, where we develop vehicle systems and platforms that deliver our code to the road.
Your Role
As a Process Engineer in the Vehicle Engineering team, you will:
Be responsible for developing robust processes for the Vehicle Engineering team, evolving existing processes, and creating new ones to ensure project activity scalability and consistency across all projects.
Generate and maintain process documentation, templates & tools to support VENG team activities, to ensure consistent and robust engineering completion
Collaborate with wider Engineering and Safety teams to ensure appropriate level of information and documentation are created to support projects
Stay up to date with the developments in the latest industry quality standards & requirements
Ensure appropriate processes in place for compliance with requirements for Tisax accreditation and PAS1881
Requirements
What you need to succeed:
Strong experience in creating & embedding engineering processes within engineering teams.
Great organisation skills
Flair to create logical flow within documentation templates and ease of use to ensure adoption by users
Development of hardware build manual structure for ease of evolution and final version roll out to customers
Ability to identify the constrictions & failure points in a process and to create pragmatic solutions
Extra Kudos
Specific experience of working in a low volume, vehicle development and build environment, able to demonstrate the right balance between speed and rigour
3+ years experience within product development OEM/ Technology environment
Experience with engineering process evolution
Experience developing test procedures and Design Verification Plans
Worked in a collaborative environment with members of different backgrounds.
Experience in preparing for external audits of systems & processes
Experience in using Jira
Experience with PAS1881, TISAX, ISO9001 or equivalent
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.