Staff Systems Software Engineer, Android OS Platform

About the role

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. The listing location is Hybrid

Austin, Texas; Hybrid

Buffalo, New York; Hybrid

San Francisco, California; Hybrid

Seattle.

Key facts

What you'll do

• 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.
• About the Role:  As a Staff System Software Engineer, you will help Motive design and develop on-edge IoT platforms.
• As an exceptional technical engineer and self-starter, you are able to design, execute, and test complex system features on a range of Linux, Android and real-time operating systems.  This role will help build the next-generation Hardware platforms 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 the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology.  We are looking for a motivated and driven self-starter, to further our technical stack from end to end.

Requirements

• What We're Looking For:  8+ years of experience in software development Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience Experience with Kotlin, Java & C++  Deep experience with AOSP (Android Open Source Project), Android OS and Linux Experience with embedded programming on Linux and / or RTOS   Pay Transparency Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications.
• 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).
• We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.  Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice  here .
• 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.  All job postings are for existing vacancies.

About Motive

We are a full-service marketing and advertising team that turns everyday business questions into focused campaigns. Our work centers on clear messaging, thoughtful visuals, and practical plans that help brands show up as themselves.

We test ideas, refine execution, and track results so each project builds momentum. If you respond to structure, curiosity, and honest collaboration, there is a place for you here.

Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.