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Motive
Motive

Senior Software Engineer, Embedded IoT

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Salary Estimate

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Seniority

Senior

Tech stacks

Embedded Systems
Software Development
Testing
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Visa

U.S. visa required

Permanent role
3 days ago
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Who We Are

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About The Role

As an Embedded Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop our IoT embedded solutions. As an exceptional technical engineer and self-starter, you are able to design, execute and test new telematics and connectivity features on a range of Linux, Android or real-time operating systems.

This role will help build the next-generation embedded solutions for Motive. You understand how to design and develop modular software features in a collaborative environment and agile team. This role offers immense career advancement and opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology.

We are looking for a motivated and driven self-starter, to further our solutions on embedded platforms.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and drive the technical vision and architectural strategy for high-performance firmware on multi-core embedded platforms. Own features from architecture through validation and release.
  • Establish, evangelize, and enforce high coding standards, best practices, and rigorous code review processes to maintain code quality and predictability.
  • Debug, optimize, and validate firmware on complex embedded multi-core architectures.
  • Develop automated and unit-level functional testing to validate features
  • Engage with a cross-disciplinary team to design, develop and test features up the stack.

What We’re Looking For

  • 7+ years of professional experience in Embedded Software or Firmware development.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Strong programming experience and demonstrated proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including development of algorithms, manipulation of complex data structures, and implementing highly optimized code
  • Consumer electronics experience or familiarity with 2-3 or relevant technologies: mutli-core ARM processors, WiFi/BT, IoT
  • Familiarity with ARM or equivalent embedded multi-core microprocessor architectures is required
  • Strong understanding of operating systems concepts such as thread scheduling, context switching and memory management is required.
  • RTOS, Linux or Android OS with ARM
  • Electrical bus communication such as UART, CAN, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, etc …

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

_Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

_United States

$126,000—$193,000 USD

_Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

__Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here .

__UK Candidate Privacy Notice here.

_The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.

About Motive

👥1001-5000
📍San Francisco, California, United States
🔗Website

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How does Motive work?

The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more.

Company culture

Take pride in doing meaningful work

We work hard, with humility and we see our hard work rewarded in tangible ways every day. You’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. At Motive, we’re motivated by the opportunity to impact and improve every facet of a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone’s lives.

Help build the technology that will spark a revolution

Here, you’ll have the opportunity to work on something meaningful and measurable. The work we’re doing is having an impact on an entire industry and we’re looking for thought leaders, game-changers and rule-breakers who are ready to step outside their comfort zone and help solve the complex problems Motive is tackling.

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