Senior MLOps Engineer

Who are we?

Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; the autonomous shuttling of goods and people.

We are home to some of the world’s leading experts on autonomous vehicles, creating solutions such as Oxa Driver, equipping vehicles with full self-driving functionality; Oxa MetaDriver, using Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments; and Oxa Hub, a set of cloud-based offerings for autonomous fleet management. Our technology is being deployed across the UK and the U.S, and we’re partnering with a fast-growing ecosystem of operators, vehicle OEMs and equipment makers serving autonomous transportation globally as it advances.

Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada and the U.S, Oxa was founded in 2014 and is  growing rapidly (350+ ‘Oxbots’ to date). Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. The company has attracted $225 million from leading investors so far, with $140 million raised in the last Series C funding round in January 2023.

Your Role:

As a Senior MLOps Engineer you will be responsible for designing and building cloud solutions to support the activities of machine learning engineers across the company. You will build tools and APIs to support ML teams in every stage of their ML workflows. You will champion automation of the entire ML lifecycle, covering data ingestion, model development, model training, model management, deployment, serving and monitoring.

On a day to day basis you will prototype tools and APIs to allow ML engineers to access cloud based infrastructure developed by your MLOps colleagues, iterating towards a production-ready service. In developing solutions you will carefully consider the skillset of the end user and design and document tools accordingly. ML team members will come to you as the authority regarding MLOps best practices and you will provide training in the use of in-house and third-party MLOps tools.

In addition to supporting ML teams with their custom MLOps requirements, you will form part of the MLOps platform team and contribute core infrastructure.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in STEM subject with a focus on software engineering or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of software development practices.
• Experience designing python APIs.
• Experience working with ML engineers and data scientists or a basic understanding of ML principles and frameworks.
• Cloud platform experience.
• Approachable and able to play an intra- and inter-team supporting role.
• Excellent listening skills and proven experience of seeking feedback from internal or external stakeholders to improve technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience using typical DevOps technologies e.g. linux, python, bash, docker, kubernetes, jenkins

Extra Kudos if you have

• Previous role as an MLOps engineer
• Use of ML frameworks e.g. pytorch, tensorflow
• Familiarity with MLOps platforms e.g. Kubeflow, MLFlow, Tensorflow Extended, ClearML, VertexAI, Amazon SageMaker
• Experience deploying ML models in production environments

Benefits

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• 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
• 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

Our Culture:

We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.

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.

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