Firmware Engineer, Motive
$119-164k
1-2 days a week in office (Buffalo, New York)
Fleet management platform for trucks
Be an early applicant
Fleet management platform for trucks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$119-164k
1-2 days a week in office (Buffalo, New York)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world’s trucks.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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 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
What the job involves
- As an Embedded Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop our IoT embedded solutions
- 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
- 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
Our take
Trucking is a huge but fragmented industry that was largely ignored by Silicon Valley until companies such as Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) came along. The integrated fleet management platform acts as air traffic control for trucks, bringing drivers online and into the 21st century.
The company offers both hardware and software solutions to freight companies, allowing them to manage their fleet and keep their drivers safe. One of these solutions is an AI-powered dashcam that detects unsafe driving behavior in real time and instantly alerts the driver.
The platform, which is used by over 120,000 companies, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, received $150 million in VC in 2025, which is being used to accelerate its investment in AI and grow its enterprise capabilities.
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Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$150m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$190m
SERIES E
Total funding: $567.3m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Obaid Khan
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Studied Political Science and Government at University of California before founding KeepTruckin in 2013.
Shoaib Makani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Government & Economics at LSE. Analytics Intern at Yahoo. Worked for a year at Google as APMM. Went on to work in Business Development at AdMob.
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