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Director, Electrical Engineering

gomotive
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/18/2026

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: 

We are looking for a seasoned Electrical Engineering leader who has a mix of broad hardware systems knowledge and cross functional team leadership skill.  You will be responsible for managing and mentoring the Electrical, Camera, RF and other specialized teams building our new products.  As an engineering leader you will be able to influence product definition and be called on to lead during critical moments with direct access to the executives of the company.

What You’ll Do: 

  • 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.

What We’re Looking For: 

  • 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
  • Very strong domain knowledge in electronics development:
  • Experience with board bring up, power supply and signal integrity testing as well as debug and root cause analysis
  • Experience with various interfaces such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, DDR, eMMC, NAND flash etc.
  • Experience with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, 4G/5G, cameras, batteries, and other peripherals

This role is not fully remote. It requires 2 days per week in our San Francisco, CA office.

Pay Transparency
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 Motive Perks & Benefits.

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

United States

$263,000 - $329,000 USD

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. 

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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. 

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Salary : $263,000 - $329,000

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