Technical Program Manager - Hardware Abstraction

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:

You will join the Hardware Abstraction layer of Oxa Driver: the teams that sit between our autonomy software and the vehicles it drives. They make one autonomy stack run safely on many different industrial vehicles, so their scope scales with each vehicle platform we integrate.

Hardware Abstraction is a group of teams responsible for:

• safety-rated collision avoidance, and the evidence that supports product certification

• vehicle and driving models that turn planned motion into commands each vehicle can execute

• the on-vehicle safety controllers and the software that runs on them

• the vehicle interface: the configuration and signal mapping that adapt the stack to each vehicle type

• bringing new vehicle types into service, including retrofit drive-by-wire

The teams work closely with Integration & Test, Autonomy Applications, Vehicle Engineering, our safety team, and external hardware suppliers and vehicle manufacturers.

Your Role:

You are the delivery enabler for the Hardware Abstraction teams. You coordinate delivery so the teams can plan, build, test and ship with less friction, and their leads can focus on engineering.

You will work with engineering, product and solutions leaders across the stack who own customer outcomes. Your focus is to make sure the Hardware Abstraction layer delivers what it committed to, predictably, with its dependencies visible early.

This layer succeeds or fails on real vehicles and test rigs, so you will spend one to two

Your Responsibilities

• Plans the teams can deliver: Take the layer's commitments in our product engineering plan and, with the leads, turn them into sequenced work with dates and a clear definition of done.

• A delivery rhythm that fits: Run planning, stand-ups and retros in a format that suits each team, including the fast cadence that hardware bring-up needs. Keep Jira as the source of truth.

• Dependencies, seen early: Track what the teams need from others and what others need from them, raise conflicts early and broker the trade-offs:

  • hardware kits, test vehicles, rigs and track time

  • supplier and vehicle-manufacturer software releases

  • handoffs to Integration & Test and Autonomy Applications

• On-site coordination: Be the delivery presence at our vehicle sites. Get vehicle and rig time booked, and parts and people in the right place. Feed test results back into the plan.

• Risk and change control: Keep risks visible and acted on. Make sure changes to safety-critical software and vehicle configuration follow the agreed change process, working with our safety team.

• Reporting that saves leads' time: Report monthly progress against plan, and the health of the defect and field-issue backlog. Use simple metrics to show whether delivery is getting more predictable.

• Better ways of working: Find the friction, such as manual steps, unclear ownership or missing test gates, and drive fixes with the teams.

  What you need to succeed:

• A career started in engineering (a degree in electrical, mechatronic, automotive, software, robotics or similar) and have moved into delivery, with 2+ years as a TPM, project engineer or delivery manager on a technical product.

• Knowledge of the hardware–software lifecycle: You know how work moves through requirements, supplier and ECU integration, bring-up, bench and vehicle testing, release and field support. Hands-on experience of hardware or vehicle bring-up and testing is preferred but not essential.

• Vehicle-systems fluency: Enough to follow the engineering and ask good questions: CAN, ECUs, embedded and Linux platforms, sensors.

• Organised and clear: You break down work, map dependencies and forecast from data (using tools like Jira, Confluence and Miro), and you build trust with engineers when priorities shift.

Extra kudos if you have:

• Experience in automotive, robotics, off-highway or industrial vehicles.

• Exposure to functional safety (ISO 13849, ISO 26262) or CE marking.

• Experience working with hardware suppliers or vehicle OEMs, or on vehicle bring-up and commissioning.

• Experience running agile delivery in a mixed hardware and software environment.

• Comfort with Git-based planning, documentation-as-code, or AI tools for reporting.

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.