Software Engineer

Company Overview

​At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions’ innovations, products and services play essential roles in people’s lives. Our end-to-end suite of software solutions helps our customers answer thousands of emergency calls and text messages, and process video, disparate evidence and records. We are also proud to be industry leaders in video security solutions installed in more than 120 countries at thousands of customer sites, including school campuses, transportation systems, healthcare centers, public venues, critical infrastructure, prisons, factories, casinos, airports, financial institutions, government facilities, and retailers.
Our products leverage cutting edge voice technology, language models, natural language understanding, video analytics, and Machine Learning to enable our customers to focus on what matters while providing faster responses, safer outcomes and greater transparency. The candidate will join a talented team of scientists and engineers (located in Chicago, Boston, Vancouver and Krakow, Poland) in the Chief Technology Office at Motorola Solutions working on developing mission-critical AI solutions for our public safety and commercial customers. Our mission is to provide meaningful value to MSI’s customers by developing domain-specific applications and services in the areas of Speech & Audio, Machine Translation, Natural Language Understanding and Computer Vision.

Job Description

We're looking for a talented and driven Software Engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining advanced Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms, with a particular focus on object detection and tracking. You will be expected to write C++ code for deployment on real-time embedded Linux devices, servers, and cloud environments. Your goal will be to deliver high-quality, production-ready software. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, evaluate and maintain Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms, including object detection and tracking.

• Write C++ code for real-time embedded Linux devices, servers and the cloud

• Work with research scientists and software engineers to bring the algorithms and technologies to commercial deployments.

• Design, develop and maintain tools for building and testing the Deep Learning and Computer Vision solutions. 

• Review code of peers for adherence to coding standards and design guidelines.

• Write technical documentations that are detailing algorithm designs and reporting experimental results. 

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of C++ development experience on linux-based systems

• Experience with Python scripting

• Solid software design and development skills; ability to write production quality code.

• Experience with object-oriented design and multi-threaded software development

• Familiarity with embedded systems

• Experience with AI/machine learning technologies is strongly preferred

Desired Skills:

• Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced Agile development environment

• Knowledge of image and video processing, including object detection, classification, and tracking

• Understanding of and proven ability with operating system concepts: processes, threads, mutexes, interrupt handling, and exception handling

• Knowledge of basic concepts in statistics, linear algebra, and mathematical optimization

Note: Candidate must be in the Somerville office twice a week.

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Target Base Salary Range

$75,000.00 - $150,000.00

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 3+ years of software development/engineer experience

• AND 2+ years of C++ experience

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position. 

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.