Director, Electrical Engineering

Motive is seeking a seasoned Electrical Engineering leader to manage and mentor specialized teams (Electrical, Camera, RF) building new products. This role involves influencing product definition, leading during critical moments, and ensuring high design standards and effective problem-solving for NPI projects. The Director will also implement process improvements and partner with TPM and Embedded software teams to achieve performance targets and influence the product roadmap with innovative technology options.

Must Have

• Manage the Electrical Engineering team, including system generalist engineers and SMEs: RF, camera, power
• Be a key leader for all NPI projects, ensuring high design standards and effective problem-solving
• Ensure devices are capable of achieving performance targets
• Critical partner to the TPM and Embedded software teams
• Author and implement process improvements for product design, validation, and qualification
• Influence product roadmap by offering innovative technology options and highlighting major risks
• 10+ years of experience as a hardware engineering leader
• 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, debug and root cause analysis
• Experience with various interfaces such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, DDR, eMMC, NAND flash
• Experience with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, 4G/5G, cameras, batteries, and other peripherals

Perks & Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
• Paid time off
• Sick time off
• Short term and long term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• 401k contribution

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