Senior Software Engineer - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom - Ocado Group

Ocado Group

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Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

"We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation."

What does the team do

To give you an idea of the types of projects you might work on, here's some examples of previous successes.

As part of our effort to be in the vanguard of robotics research, the team has been involved in two European Union funded Horizon 2020 research projects with a number of leading European Universities:

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What would I be doing?

Working in collaboration with researchers to architect, implement, integrate, test, deploy and support computer vision components for robotic picking.
Driving improvements to code quality through appropriate methods including testing, code review and mentoring.
Implementing and supporting deployment pipelines to improve delivery to stakeholders and maintain release quality.
Collaborating with stakeholders including customer teams and product managers to define interfaces and deliverables that meet their requirements.
Discovering, evaluating and implementing new tools and practices to increase the effectiveness of the team.
Documenting and presenting progress and deliverables.

We'd like to hear from you if you have...

Strong Python and C++ software development skills
Good grasp of software engineering fundamentals: architecture, data structures, multithreading, testing
Experience developing systems with microservice architectures
Substantial experience of CI/CD e.g. GitLab, Docker or similar
Demonstrable experience of releasing and maintaining code in production
Practical experience of cloud systems e.g. GCP or AWS
Interest in working on and supporting robotic systems
Experience developing on Ubuntu Linux

Bonus points if you have...

Experience training and deploying computer vision ML models
Masters/PhD in a related field: computer science, computer vision, ML or robotics
Experience of robotics or a similar domain involving hardware, sensors .etc
Go software development skills
Experience working with ROS
Experience of gRPC and protocol buffers
Experience of classical image manipulation and computer vision techniques
Experience working with point clouds

Our Values

We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment with inspiring projects that our people love.

Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture.

But don't just take our word for it, have a look at what our people are saying about us on Glassdoor.

What we offer you

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we've ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being.

We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately. Currently, we offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and;

A Work from Home policy that sees you in the office typically 40% of your time.
30 days 'working from anywhere' policy
Equity Plan (1015% of salary) for eligible roles
Wellbeing support through Apps such as Unmind and an Employee Assistance Programme
25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
Private Medical Insurance
22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete)
Train Ticket loan (interestfree)
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices
Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes
Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary)

We are thrilled to welcome applicants from across the world.

Whilst we are able to offer visa sponsorship, please note that we are only able to cover costs relating to the Certificate of Sponsorship and the Immigration Skills Charge only.

For all employment offers made for UK roles, it is expected that you will be based in the UK in commutable distance, ready for your first day of work, so please keep this in mind.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.