Sensor Engineer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxa Autonomy

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    Description

    Your Role

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  • The development and launch of sensor suite to support the latest developments in sensor hardware applicable to autonomous vehicles in multiple domains including camera, radar, lidar, IMU, GPS and multispectral devices.
  • Maintaining and updating sensor drivers, with a focus on applications on low-power embedded devices
  • Developing sensor introspection capabilities to ensure that sensor data is high-fidelity and the autonomy system it serves can leverage the full capability of a sensor. This includes developing algorithms and techniques to ensure time synchronisation and timestamp estimation.
  • Developing software diagnostic features to monitor sensor health (performance, degradation, fault detection). Developing system plugins to allow the autonomous system to make informed safety decisions on the basis of sensor health.
  • Analysing and improving sensor data quality to get accurate information from the real world.
  • Working with stakeholders across the company to understand requirements and provide tools to support vehicle commissioning, calibration, synchronisation
  • Requirements

    What you need to succeed:

  • Understanding of different sensor modalities and their characteristics and experience working with them.
  • Foundation experience of C++14/17 programming skills
  • An understanding of how to develop and debug performant C++ software
  • Experience with time synchronisation and calibration in robotics applications.
  • Ability to communicate clearly on technical matters and work well with multiple stakeholders across several teams.
  • Extra kudos if you have:

  • Experience in software development for embedded devices
  • Experience of producing high-quality C++ code and actively contributing to peer coding reviews.
  • 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, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
  • Company share programme
  • Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
  • An outstanding £2,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
  • Funded relocation support
  • Fully funded Visa sponsorship if required
  • 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