Senior Fleet Reliability Engineer - Robotics & Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare via Bupa

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension: 4+% employee with option to 5

Employee Assistance Programme

25 holidays per year

Full meals onsite

Job summary

Dexory is building advanced software and robotics for global logistics, combining hardware, software, AI and commercial teams into one fast-moving, collaborative unit. We value out-of-the-box thinking, merit and accountability, aiming to turn theory into real, scalable outcomes in a complex field.

The role focuses on fleet health, telemetry and data quality, alerting and escalation, pre-failure detection, and configuration management, while partnering with V&V and engineering to drive reliable,

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 metrics and reporting.
• 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. If a failure cannot be investigated because the data was not recorded, that is a reliability defect.
• 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

SRE

Platform operations

Robotics operations

Telemetry & observability

Python

SQL

Linux

Distributed systems

ROS

Tools

Grafana

ROS

Job description

Dexory is building advanced software and robotics for global logistics, combining hardware, software, AI and commercial teams into one fast-moving, collaborative unit. We value out-of-the-box thinking, merit and accountability, aiming to turn theory into real, scalable outcomes in a complex field.

The role focuses on fleet health, telemetry and data quality, alerting and escalation, pre-failure detection, and configuration management, while partnering with V&V and engineering to drive reliable,