Vehicle R&D Team Lead

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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141K-216K Annually
3-5 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Hardware • Information Technology • Sales • Software • Transportation
Unlock the potential of the physical economy.
The Role
As a Vehicle Subject Matter Expert, you will work on evolving telematics feature offerings for vehicle gateway embedded platforms. Your responsibilities include researching telematics data, developing new features, interfacing with internal teams, and creating tools to pull necessary data.
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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 120,000 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.

Who We Are: 

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. 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. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

 Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role: 

You are first a great engineer in either the electrical or software domain and have a great history of creative problem solving.

As a vehicle SME, you will evolve the telematics feature offerings of our vehicle gateway embedded platforms. You will review OEM documentation on telematics data offerings, work with a cross platform team to develop new features and provide critical insights to our customers through vehicle data. A successful candidate will have a working of vehicle networks, how to obtain vehicle telematics data parameters and understand how data can be interpreted.

Make our products work on as many vehicles as possible. Be able to figure out through live debugging (working with vehicles), scraping data, creating tools, reverse engineering how to pull data from our customer’s vehicles.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Whatever it takes 
  • Researching telematics data signals, proprietary OEM data and infield logs to provide understanding to vehicle network traffic
  • Provide insights into new telematics data to develop new features.
  • Interface with internal teams on best practices related to field data and data quality.
  • Growing and maintaining OEM contacts. This includes going to conferences, customer sites and OEM onsites.
  • Create tools and scripts to pull data you need
  • Implement changes in our codebase.

What We’re Looking For: 

  • 4+ years of vehicle automotive experience analyzing vehicle network traffic
  • BS or higher in electrical, software or automotive related engineering
  • Hands on experience interfacing with vehicles
  • Code in C/C++/python or equivalent
  • Ability to use physical debug tools like multimeters, oscilloscopes, scan tools

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

$141,000$216,000 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. 

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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. 

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The Company
San Francisco, CA
4,000 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. 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. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Why Work With Us

We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.

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