About the Company
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
Responsibilities
- Define what to build and how to build it, shaping product direction from the engineering side.
- Own the technical direction for orchestrating concurrent, real-time interactions to deliver one coherent experience for the driver.
- Build and ship new AI-powered products from zero to one in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Design systems that coordinate across backend and edge boundaries, where reliability and real-time responsiveness both matter.
- Make architectural tradeoffs where requirements are still evolving, favoring foundations that generalize over narrowly-scoped solutions.
- Establish patterns for reliability, observability, and explainability in systems that make real-time decisions.
- Serve as the team's technical anchor: review designs, unblock decisions, and mentor firmware engineers as they grow into full-stack contributors.
- Bring in outside ideas and practices for full-stack and AI-assisted development.
- Champion the Samsara cultural principles as we scale globally.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of products from concept through production.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong programming fundamentals (Golang, Python, or similar).
- Experience building products on top of LLMs or AI agent platforms.
- Experience designing reliable, distributed backend systems that support multi-step, asynchronous workflows.
- Experience designing backend systems that serve edge, embedded, or resource-constrained clients.
- Experience with quality and safety considerations for AI-driven systems: validating outputs, structured responses, retries/fallbacks, and monitoring.
- Experience mentoring engineers as they expand into unfamiliar technical domains.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction without formal authority.
- Located in and authorized to work in the United States or Canada (fully remote).