Data Annotator

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 Role: 

Being customer obsessed and data driven is what drives this role. We’re looking for individuals who can empathize with users, and work towards making their everyday lives easier.  If you’re analytical, detail-oriented, and organized, but also excited to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, you’d fit right in. The role will require rotational working hours to ensure smooth operational running of the 24/7/365 real-time set up, and collaboration with a global team.

This role directly powers a critical live customer-facing product safety product, which forms the foundation for multiple other safety features. You would be the expert at risk identification, for all our customers using our safety products.

You would also work closely with the Research & Development teams, to power our in-house Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence models, by generating high quality training datasets. This requires an understanding of data requirements, data definitions, edge-cases, tooling and review processes. 

In addition to that, you would also work closely with the Product team to run proof of concepts and experiments, which guide the direction of our Safety product suite, particularly in the areas of risk identification, mitigation, and reduction. You would also contribute toward analyzing data to improve the user experience for our customers. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Review and analyze live videos captured by Motive’s dashcam for risk identification, based on the known risk factors combined with the contextual knowledge which would vary from case to case.
• Adhere to the established guidelines and protocols for annotation to ensure consistency and reliability of data.
• Ensure timely delivery of accurate data as per SLAs.
• Consistently strive to enhance the annotation procedures and play a role in shaping the team's best practices through active participation.
• Exhibit flexibility and adaptability in taking on new responsibilities beyond the scope of the defined job description, showcasing a proactive and versatile approach to work.
• While remote work offers flexibility, it also requires a high level of self-discipline, time management, and communication skills to maintain productivity and collaboration in a distributed team environment.

What We’re Looking For: 

• Bachelors in Computer Science, IT, Management, or related field.
• 0-2 years of experience
• Detail oriented and organized, with a growth mindset.
• Thinks, designs and executes keeping customers at the center of the solution. 
• Interested  in learning about the annotation landscape and application of AI/ML in the trucking industry 
• Ability to work collaboratively, in a 24/7/365 set up, with strong coordination across the team. 
• Good communication skills, oral and written.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and tools, and switch context in between them.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive  core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives