Fleet Reliability Engineer - Data & Telemetry

Dexory; Oxford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension plan (employee 4%+)

Pension employer 5%

Employee Assistance Programme

25 holidays per year

Meals onsite

Job summary

Dexory is building advanced software powered by robots to transform global logistics. We seek a senior reliability-focused engineer to own fleet health, data capture, and diagnostic pipelines, partnering with V&V and hardware teams to reduce incidents and drive durable improvements.

You will lead opportunities to detect pre-failure indicators, set thresholds, and drive a measurable reduction in critical failures across the fleet, while mentoring new engineers and growing the team.

Qualifications

• Substantial engineering experience in reliability, SRE, platform operations, robotics operations or a strongly data-driven engineering role.
• Fluency with telemetry and observability: Grafana or similar, time-series data, SQL, Python.
• The analytical judgement to separate signal from noise, and to tell the difference between a robot that is unusual and a robot that is failing.
• Enough systems depth to be credible with engineers: Linux, logs, distributed systems, and ideally ROS or another robotics stack.
• The ability to argue a case from evidence and hold a position with engineering and hardware teams.
• The discipline to protect proactive work from reactive pull.
• Genuine interest in growing into a leadership role - a strong engineer who wants to build and lead a team, not a manager who has stopped building.

Responsibilities

• Define and own fleet health: what we measure, what good looks like, and how it is reported.
• Investigate fleet-wide behaviour from logs and telemetry: spot a warning appearing on a handful of robots, work out which release or configuration change introduced it, quantify how many robots are exposed and how badly, and judge the real operational severity.
• Own the fleet's diagnostic data capture — work with other teams for rosbag recording rules, log pipelines, telemetry coverage.
• Own alert thresholds, alert quality, resolution and escalation;
• Develop pre-failure detection of robot subsystems
• Own fleet configuration management: baselines, drift detection, change visibility, and driving the configuration itself towards something manageable rather than hand-tuned per robot.
• Own fleet data quality and the hardware health foundation: component-level tracking, and a monthly fleet health report to Service and Engineering.
• Preventive maintenance intervals set from fleet data,
• Work alongside V&V on release candidate analysis: interpret what RC robots are showing, catch regressions before wide rollout, and recommend proceed, hold or roll back. V&V owns the release decision; you supply the evidence behind it.
• Build the top-failure-modes register and drive the highest-impact items to resolution with Engineering.
• Report fleet health to the interested teams (Service, Engineering, Software).
• Hire, coach and grow the team; stay hands-on with data and robots.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Observability

Grafana

SQL & Python

Linux

ROS knowledge

Job description

Dexory is building advanced software powered by robots to transform global logistics. We seek a senior reliability-focused engineer to own fleet health, data capture, and diagnostic pipelines, partnering with V&V and hardware teams to reduce incidents and drive durable improvements.

You will lead opportunities to detect pre-failure indicators, set thresholds, and drive a measurable reduction in critical failures across the fleet, while mentoring new engineers and growing the team.