Senior AI Platform Engineer ( Enterprise Systems)

Motive; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive aims to empower operators with safer, more productive tools. This Senior Engineer role focuses on shipping production software and AI systems on secure, cost-disciplined cloud infrastructure.

You will design services, operate AI pipelines, and manage cloud spend while collaborating with product and business stakeholders. You will own the full lifecycle, build pipelines, and help reduce unit costs through optimized hardware and software choices, while ensuring reliability and security

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development, owning production systems.
• Shipped backend services 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 ability to govern cloud/AI spend and communicate tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship production services, APIs, and user-facing interfaces where needed.
• Own the full lifecycle: implementation, tests, code review, CI/CD, deploy, maintenance.
• Operate production AI systems and improve inference, evaluation, and governance.

Skills

Python

Backend API development

AI/ML systems

Cost governance

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

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

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 Do

Software 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.

What We’re Looking For

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.

What Success Looks Like

• 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.

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