Motive
Embedded Engineer
Job Summary
The role of Telematics Software Engineer involves designing, developing, and testing embedded firmware and software for telematics platforms. The candidate will work with Linux, Android, and real-time operating systems on embedded multi-core architectures, focusing on vehicle connectivity and IoT solutions. This position requires strong programming skills in C/C++/Java and familiarity with automotive protocols and communication systems. It offers opportunities for career growth and involves collaboration within agile teams to build innovative telematics solutions.
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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 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 a Telematics Software Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop our IoT embedded platforms and vehicle connected 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 telematics 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 telematics stack from embedded platform to backend.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and development of high-performance firmware and software for cutting-edge embedded platforms
- 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:
- 5+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming experience and demonstrated proficiency in C/C++/Java 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, Vehicle communication/Infotainment systems, V2X systems.
- 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.
- Linux or Android OS with ARM
- Automotive protocols such as J1939, J1587 J1850 etc ..
- Electrical bus communication such as UART, CAN, Ethernet, 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.
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