Application Safety Engineer

Who are we?

Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxa is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).

As the global leader in our industry, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy™ is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously — safely, securely and efficiently.

Our technology is capturing investors’ imagination. To date we’ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA, and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.

Your Team

As our Senior Application Safety Engineer you will join our safety case development team, where we create Oxa's Safety case.

Your Role

As an Application Safety Engineer you will work to develop safety measures / considerations for the Core Safety Case. Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing processes, templates and ways of working for customisation of the core safety approach to be used by all the safety relevant applications.
• Be the first point of contact and support for the application safety engineers allocated to the various safety relevant teams.
• Incorporate lessons learnt from across the business into the core safety engineering approach, be reactive and manage change to minimise disruption to operations whilst maintaining safety.
• Contribute to the core safety engineering approach focusing especially on the areas of human factors, defensive driving and product safety.
• Help create specific safety case content and other safety work products as needed for the teams.
• Contribute to the core safety approach on performing safety impact analyses, base vehicle safety evaluations and safety interfaces, human safety relevant interfaces.
• Set up the basis for the customisation of the core safety approach as applicable to other teams through their application safety engineers, including supporting parametrisation, specific safety validation and any other safety related activities.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• Degree in a relevant field such as engineering or science.
• Practical experience in hazard identification, risk mitigation identification and risk assessments.
• Understanding of how human behaviours can potentially lead to hazardous scenarios with respects to both the driving tasks but also interactions with complex systems.
• Understanding of the larger safety scope beyond electronics and into overall product safety.
• Experience in different methods for verification and validation and understand the associated benefits and challenges with each type.
• Understanding of the concept of defensive driving and correlation with safety.
• Experience in metrics and data analysis
• Experience with projects in the field of Autonomous vehicles or robotics

Extra kudos:

• Experience in research and development, autonomous driving

• Familiar with industry relevant safety standards including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL4600, PAS 1881:2022 SAE J3016.
• Proven agility in fast-changing environments. As a scale-up, we’re constantly evolving so our people need to evolve too for us to succeed together.
• A customer-centric outlook.

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

We provide:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working arrangements
• PTO 25 days
• United Healthcare Medical Insurance - we cover 95% with 5% employee contribution
• 401k Retirement plan with Safe Harbour
• Life Assurance
• AD&D Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Dental and Vision - Fully funded for you and Oxa will contribute 50% of costs for dependants
  

The base pay range for this position is expected to be between $110,000 - $130,000 USD per year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as skills, job-related knowledge and location.

Our Culture

We believe that diversity of thought and experience is a key driver of innovation. It also makes life, and work, more interesting. So ours is a culture that celebrates humanity in all its diversity and richness, and uses difference as fuel to grow and succeed together. Everyone is welcome, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued. And our work and people are all the better for it.

Learn more about our culture here.

Why become an Oxbot?

Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they’re 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, they 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.