Principal Hardware Electrical Engineering

Director/Senior Director, Electrical Engineering

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.

Manage the Electrical Engineering team, including system generalist engineers and SMEs: RF, camera, power

Be a key leader for all NPI projects, ensuring the team is designing to a high standard, solving problems effectively, and that our devices are capable of achieving performance targets.

Critical partner to the TPM and Embedded software teams

Author and implement process improvements as we improve how we design, validate, and qualify our products and partners

Influence product roadmap by offering innovative technology options and by highlighting major risks.

10+ years of experience as a hardware engineering leader, OEM, ODM, JDM all valuable

Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Experience managing teams of engineers and being responsible for multiple projects concurrently

Experience with board bring up, power supply and signal integrity testing as well as debug and root cause analysis

Director of Hardware Engineering:

15+ years of experience as a cross-functional engineering leader

Experience managing the full engineering lifecycle for Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Reliability, Quality, Sustaining teams

Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility

It requires 2 days per week in our San Francisco, CA office.