Safety Driver

At Oxa, we're building the future of Industrial Mobile Autonomy (IMA) and are in the market for new talent.

Oxa’s customers are the operators of some of the world's largest industrial facilities. Our technology transforms existing industrial vehicles into intelligent autonomous fleets, unlocking new levels of productivity, safety, and performance.

‘The phone in your hand, the coffee on your desk, the shirt on your back - they all moved through a web of ports (air and sea), distribution yards and manufacturing hubs. This is the invisible circulatory system of global trade, and it relies entirely on a relentless, repetitive shuffle of goods. Towing.

This towing task happens in complex, commerce-critical industrial environments. Here, having self driving technology “do the driving” delivers immediate, measurable impact. IMA will revolutionise the movement of goods across the world's ports, airports, and yards.

You can be part of that as an Oxbot’

‘Paul Newman - Founder and CEO’

Our Products:

Our products are built on four core technology pillars which come together to build a complete system:

Oxa Ware –

Our modular autonomy hardware systems for consistent and repeatable integration of autonomy with existing vehicles.

Oxa Driver –

Our Physical AI, embodied in Oxa Ware, self-driving software that enables vehicles to perceive, reason, and drive autonomously in complex real-world environments.

Oxa Foundry –

Our development toolchain that leverages generative AI to continuously train and assure Oxa Driver, synthesising situations and sensor data.

Oxa Hub –

Our suite of cloud services for monitoring, managing and orchestrating fleets driven by Oxa Driver, including an API for integration with existing logistics systems.

Behind these technologies is our exceptional team, the Oxbots. We are home to some of the world's leading experts in autonomous systems, robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and distributed software engineering. Together, we're solving some of the hardest technical challenges in autonomy, turning the research and development we do into production and deploying it into environments. Making robots do useful work.

Your Team:

Our Safety Drivers form a Pivotal part of our Fleet Team. Fleet has the responsibility of everything vehicular for Oxa. This engaged group not only designs and builds but also runs all of the robot platforms. This ensures iterative progress is made in a safe and well documented way.

Your Responsibilities

Core Robot Activities

Drive and operate our robots within the Oxa testing sites around Oxford, UK.

Internally supervise our prototype robots through the test and development lifecycle by protecting against damage to the machine, under the direction of Robotists and engineers.

Provide professional expertise to advise Robotists and engineers on road rules and driving best practice.

Continually upskill to hold the necessary understanding and experience to act as Safety Driver across Oxa development platforms.

Demonstrate a very high level of concentration and excellent judgement of hazards.

Non-Robot Activities

Able to work effectively with others towards a shared goal through cooperation and leadership.

Capable to reflect on dynamic risk assessment and assume Safety Advisor role when operating vehicles across development domains.

Notice where we can improve or go faster and proactively share and develop these ideas.

Disciplined to complete all administrative tasks in a timely manner.

Future Aspirational Activities

Internally, externally and remotely supervise the safe driving of our robots across a wide range of domains on Oxa sites around Oxford, UK.

Internally, externally and remotely supervise our prototype robots through the test and development lifecycle and trials by protecting against damage to the machine and by providing concise and relevant feedback to Robotists and engineers.

Advise policy designers on driving and robot risk management.

Future Aspirational Non-Robot Activities

Competent user of JIRA to raise safety reports, generate metrics and report bugs.

Support Operations with movements of the vehicle fleet as required.

Available to travel to off-site trials, deployments and testing, nationally or internationally.

Strong written and verbal communication capabilities and able to adapt messaging for different audiences.

What you ned to succeed:

Hold a clean UK driving licence

Full C+E (HGV 1) licence

Several years of driving experience as a professional driver (e.g. HGV, Bus/PSV, Drone Pilot), driver trainer (approved Instructor for car, HGV, Bus/Coach, emergency services, other), or test driver (vehicle development, autonomous vehicles, other)

Hold a valid Passport

Extra kudos if you have:

Advanced driving qualification(s).

Vocational training qualification - such as ADI.

Experience working with Robots or prototype test vehicles.

Experience of Teaching - including how to plan learning, deliver content, give feedback, and assess student progress.

Experience driving in a variety of locations such as airports, proving grounds, and off-road terrain.

Experience of working as a vehicle technician (mechanical & electrical tasks).

Experience with drones and/or radio/remote controlled vehicles.

D licence.

Your Interview Experience:

Our interview process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. You will join three stages which will give you every opportunity to show your strengths and qualities, via scenario based questions and technical exercises.

What We Offer:

Competitive salary benchmarked against the market

Participation in a great company equity scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Annual holiday allowance of 25 days per year

Overseas working policy for up to 8 weeks per year

Flexible, hybrid and remote working arrangements

Comprehensive Private Health cover with the option to add family members,

Enhanced health and wellbeing benefits including health cash plan, critical illness cover, life assurance and group income protection

Enhanced paid maternity and paternity policy

If you're excited by deep technical problems, real-world AI, and the opportunity to build technology that will reshape global industry, you'll find both the challenge and the impact you're looking for at Oxa.