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Who We Are

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Job:

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to build the models that power a key new focus area for Motive. As a member of our team you'll help frame the problems, build models and products that win customers, and leverage machine learning at a massive scale to solidify Motive's technology lead in the connected fleet management space.

You'll embed yourself deep in the world of trucking and help understand the forces that govern it. Working with geospatial, transportation, and economic data, you'll help optimize the way freight moves throughout North America.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, improve, and maintain machine learning models
  • Apply statistical models and quantitative analysis on large datasets to measure and identify areas for improvement/optimization in the product
  • Lead the effort for collection of new data and refinement of existing data sources
  • Identify and help implement tools to analyze this data effectively
  • Educate and steer the organization towards adopting a more data-driven approach

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field, e.g. Computer Science, Math, Economics, or Statistics
  • 5+ years experience in data science, machine learning, and data analysis
  • Expertise in applied probability and statistics
  • Deep understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
  • End-to-end deployment data-driven model deployment experience
  • Expertise in data-oriented programming (e.g. SQL) and statistical programming (e.g., Python, R). PySpark experience is a big plus
  • 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.
  • Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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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Company name: Motive
Remote job title: Senior Data Scientist
Job tags: license fees, business services, mobility
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    595 days ago

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