Join Motive as a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and optimize production AI systems in a fully remote environment.
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Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design, build, and ship production services
- Own the full lifecycle: implementation, tests, code review, CI/CD, deploy, and maintenance
- Build and operate production AI systems
- Architect AWS/GCP environments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD
- Optimize GPUs, inference routing, model choice, and right-sizing
Must have
- 5+ years of professional software development
- Shipped backend services/APIs and production AI/ML
- Strong Python plus a second stack
- AWS or GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD
- Proven work reducing or governing cloud/AI spend
Nice to have
- Full-stack (React/Next.js)
- Vector databases
- Inference optimization
- FinOps tooling
- SOX/SOC 2
- Copilot/Cursor
AI in the day-to-day
Build and operate production AI systems: RAG, evaluation, fine-tuning, serving, and inference optimization.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Visa
- No sponsorship (stated in posting)
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior AI Platform Engineer at Motive focuses on developing and maintaining production software and AI systems within cloud environments, ensuring reliability and cost-effectiveness. Key skills include proficiency in Python and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, alongside tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in software development and AI/ML, particularly those who have successfully managed production systems. The team emphasizes operational efficiency and cost control, making it suitable for individuals who thrive in a results-driven environment.
Joblaze insights
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior AI Platform Engineer ( Enterprise Systems) role remote?
- Yes — Motive lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior AI Platform Engineer ( Enterprise Systems) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GCP, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Node.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Motive targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior AI Platform Engineer ( Enterprise Systems) role at Motive.
From the original posting
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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