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.
Senior engineer who ships production software and AI systems on cloud infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and cost-disciplined. You design applications and services, operate inference platforms and pipelines, and treat unit economics (tokens, GPU-hours, idle capacity) as engineering constraints.
You partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver working software, higher reliability, and lower cost per unit of AI value.
What You Will DoSoftware development
- Design, build, and ship production services, APIs, and (where needed) user-facing interfaces.
- Own the full lifecycle: implementation, tests, code review, CI/CD, deploy, and maintenance.
- Write maintainable code in Python plus one more stack (TypeScript/Node, Go, or Java).
AI engineering
- Build and operate production AI systems: RAG, evaluation, fine-tuning, serving, and inference optimization.
- Turn prototypes into reusable platform capabilities with CI/CD, eval, and governance.
Cloud infrastructure
- Architect AWS/GCP environments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD for apps and model pipelines.
- Own observability and incident response; partner on SOC 2/SOX and least-privilege IAM.
Cost control
- Treat cloud and AI spend as an engineering problem: visibility, attribution, budgets, and reduction.
- Optimize GPUs, inference routing, model choice, and right-sizing; track cost per request/token and GPU idle.
Required
- 5+ years of professional software development, owning production systems (not only scripts or notebooks).
- Shipped backend services/APIs and production AI/ML (LLMs, RAG, serving).
- Strong Python plus a second stack; PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent serving.
- AWS or GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
- Proven work reducing or governing cloud/AI spend.
- Clear communication of technical and cost tradeoffs; you run what you build.
Preferred
- Full-stack (React/Next.js), vector databases, inference optimization, FinOps tooling, SOX/SOC 2, Copilot/Cursor.
- Production software and AI with SLOs and real ownership — not demos.
- Reliability stays high while GPU and cloud waste trends down.
- Cost per unit of AI value is visible and improving; teams reuse libraries, IaC, and cost guardrails.
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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software development experience owning production systems
- Experience shipping backend services and APIs
- Experience delivering production AI/ML systems, including LLMs, RAG, or model serving
- Strong Python skills plus a second programming stack such as TypeScript/Node, Go, or Java
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent model-serving technology
- Experience with AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD
- Proven experience reducing or governing cloud and AI spend
- Ability to communicate technical and cost tradeoffs and operate owned systems
- Full-stack experience with React or Next.js
- Experience with vector databases
- Experience with inference optimization
- Experience with FinOps tooling
- Experience with SOX or SOC 2
- Experience with Copilot or Cursor
- Authorization to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations
What the Team is Saying
Motive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus free mental‑health support are prominently offered, including access to Lyra Health. The breadth of core health benefits is positioned as a cornerstone of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous vacation/PTO, local holidays, sick time, and enhanced parental leave are highlighted across company materials. The time‑off framework is presented as flexible and comprehensive.
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Retirement Support — A retirement plan with company match is promoted alongside life and disability insurance. Financial protections and long‑term savings features are emphasized as part of total rewards.
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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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