Embedded Senior Software Engineer

Motive; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 142,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing technology firm in Metro Vancouver seeks an Embedded Engineer to lead and develop next-generation IoT embedded solutions. Candidates must have 7+ years of experience in embedded software development, a Bachelor's degree in a related field, and strong skills in C/C++. The role demands collaboration in agile teams to define technical strategies and maintain high coding standards. The compensation range is between $142,000 and $212,000 CAD, reflecting the diverse and inclusive culture of the company.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in Embedded Software or Firmware development.
• Strong programming experience and demonstrated proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems.
• Familiarity with ARM or equivalent embedded multi-core microprocessor architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architectural strategy for firmware.
• Establish high coding standards and rigorous code review processes.
• Engage with a cross-disciplinary team to design and test features.

Skills

C/C++ programming for embedded systems

Debugging and validating firmware

Understanding of operating systems concepts

Development of algorithms

Experience with multicore ARM processors

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

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.

About the Role:

As an Embedded Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop our IoT embedded solutions. 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.

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.

We are looking for a motivated and driven self-starter, to further our solutions on embedded platforms.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive the technical vision and architectural strategy for high-performance firmware on multi-core embedded platforms. Own features from architecture through validation and release.
• Establish, evangelize, and enforce high coding standards, best practices, and rigorous code review processes to maintain code quality and predictability.
• 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.

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of professional experience in Embedded Software or Firmware development.
• 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: multicore 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 …

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.

Pay Transparency

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

Canada: $142,000—$212,000 CAD

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