Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering

Company: Oxa
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Location: Oxford
Job Description:

Who are we?

Founded in 2014, Oxa is a global leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, dedicated to accelerating Industrial Mobile Autonomy (IMA).

We develop advanced physical AI and robotics technology, anchored around our configurable and explainable self-driving software, Oxa Driver; development toolchain, Oxa Foundry; and fleet management software, Oxa Hub. We utilise hardware blueprints known as Reference Autonomy Designs (RADs) to enable the integration of sensors, compute and drive-by-wire systems into existing vehicles produced by OEMs.

Our solutions automate repetitive industrial driving tasks, such as the towing and carrying of goods in locations like ports, airports and manufacturing facilities, or asset and perimeter monitoring in environments such as solar farms or industrial plants. We’re helping global businesses to address critical challenges like labour shortages and rising operational costs – driving efficiency, productivity, and safety.

Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada, our engineering team is drawn from the world’s top physical AI specialists and led by originators of the field.

Your Role:

Joining us as a Senior Engineer within our Platform Engineering Function, you will focus on the design and development of solutions for a range of products and projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Work in engineering teams to design systems for operability, whilst thinking about how we will manage, update, and monitor those systems in production.
  • Review and improve existing solutions. Ensuring we continuously raise the bar on operability, including security, reliability, and scale.
  • Work closely with stream-aligned teams to provide expertise and support for the implementation and management of their environments.

What you need to succeed:

  • Strong experience with installing, configuring, and managing Linux environments.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
  • Experience with cloud, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Relevant experience with building and maintaining CI/CD systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to a variety of technical and non technical audiences.
  • Experience with containerisation and container orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with architecting, maintaining, and building efficient, cost-effective scalable infrastructure.
  • A solid understanding of DevOps principles and methodologies.

Extra Kudos if you have:

  • Experience with GCP-specific Kubernetes/GKE at scale, especially with GPU-based workloads.
  • Experience with enforcing security best practice in line with compliance requirements.
  • Experience with CNCF tooling, such as ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflows, Kyverno, Kueue/MultiKueue, KEDA.
  • Experience in mentoring others throughout the organisation.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
  • Company share programme
  • Hybrid and/or flexible remote working 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 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

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Posted: May 21st, 2026