Senior AI Platform Engineer

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Who we are:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Visit <a href="http://gomotive.com">gomotive.com</a> to learn more.</p></div><div> <h2>

About

the Role</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>You partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver working software, higher reliability, and lower cost per unit of AI value.</p> <h2>What You Will Do</h2> <p><strong>Software development</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and ship production services, APIs, and (where needed) user-facing interfaces.</li> <li>Own the full lifecycle: implementation, tests, code review, CI/CD, deploy, and maintenance.</li> <li>Write maintainable code in Python plus one more stack (TypeScript/Node, Go, or Java).</li> </ul> <p><strong>AI engineering</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and operate production AI systems: RAG, evaluation, fine-tuning, serving, and inference optimization.</li> <li>Turn prototypes into reusable platform capabilities with CI/CD, eval, and governance.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cloud infrastructure</strong></p> <ul> <li>Architect AWS/GCP environments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD for apps and model pipelines.</li> <li>Own observability and incident response; partner on SOC 2/SOX and least-privilege IAM.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cost control</strong></p> <ul> <li>Treat cloud and AI spend as an engineering problem: visibility, attribution, budgets, and reduction.</li> <li>Optimize GPUs, inference routing, model choice, and right-sizing; track cost per request/token and GPU idle.</li> </ul> <h2>

What We're Looking For</h2> <p><strong>Required</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional software development, owning production systems (not only scripts or notebooks).</li> <li>Shipped backend services/APIs and production AI/ML (LLMs, RAG, serving).</li> <li>Strong Python plus a second stack; PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent serving.</li> <li>AWS or GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.</li> <li>Proven work reducing or governing cloud/AI spend.</li> <li>Clear communication of technical and cost tradeoffs; you run what you build.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred</strong></p> <ul> <li>Full-stack (React/Next.js), vector databases, inference optimization, FinOps tooling, SOX/SOC 2, Copilot/Cursor.</li> </ul> <h2>What Success Looks Like</h2> <ul> <li>Production software and AI with SLOs and real ownership — not demos.</li> <li>Reliability stays high while GPU and cloud waste trends down.</li> <li>Cost per unit of AI value is visible and improving; teams reuse libraries, IaC, and cost guardrails.</li> </ul> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p class="p1"><strong><em>Pay Transparency</em></strong></p> <p class="p1"><em>Your

compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total

compensation may include restricted stock units. 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). Learn more about our

benefits by visiting</em><a href="https://www.comparably.com/companies/motive/

perks-and-

benefits"><span class="s1"><em> Motive

Perks &

Benefits</em></span></a>.</p> <p class="p1">The

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

compensation range is:</p></div><div class="title">Canada</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$137,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$165,000 CAD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><em>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. </em></p> <p><em>Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice <a class="ProsemirrorEditor-link" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9AbvQHki8zZCyjDjip1g0NtdZHcykJc/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></p> <p><em>UK Candidate Privacy Notice <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nqdWTJ7WJJikhj1Yhlo4jxDRA_6yXZbd/view">here</a>.</em></p> <p><em><span id="m_-8012333603671085849gmail-docs-internal-guid-8821a356-7fff-42cb-93df-e4c910033371">The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. </span>It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. </em></p> <p><em>Regarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.</em></p> <p><em>Non-compete covenant terms in all other jurisdictions will be subject to the applicable statutory

requirements, including but not limited to, procedures, industry related prohibitions, or salary and

compensation thresholds.</em></p> <p><em>All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.</em></p></div>