Motive
Embedded Engineer
Job Summary
The Firmware Engineer role involves leading embedded hardware projects, designing and developing high-performance firmware for IoT platforms, and optimizing complex embedded systems. The candidate should have extensive experience with C/C++ programming, multi-core architectures, and hardware deployment, especially in consumer electronics and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include debugging, validating firmware, and participating in research projects to build next-generation hardware. The role requires a strong technical background, leadership skills, and the ability to ship high-volume quality hardware.
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Job Description
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 more than 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.
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About the Role:
As an Firmware Engineer, you will be a key member of the hardware team leading an embedded project from start to finish. Both an exceptional technical engineer as well as a leader, you are able to architect, execute, and test complex embedded systems on a range of platforms from bare metal, RTOS, Linux, and mobile OS.
This role will help build the next-generation HW platforms for Motive. This person understands how to ship high-volume quality hardware and has done it many times; experience with mobile platforms and surrounding technologies a must. You have shipped hundreds of thousands if not millions of devices through the devices you have developed.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and development of high-performance firmware and software for cutting-edge IoT platforms
- Debug, optimize, and validate firmware on complex embedded multi-core architectures.
- Participate in ground-breaking hardware and research projects
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience
- 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 3-4 or relevant technologies: mutli-core ARM processors, GPUs, WiFi/BT, cameras.
- Strong understanding of operating systems concepts such as thread scheduling, context switching and memory management is required.
- IoT device development, deployment and monitoring in-field.
- Comfortable with python or other scripting languages.
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.
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.
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