Staff Firmware Engineer

🕒 August 17

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $162.4k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔧 Hardware Engineer

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Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

📋 Description

• Develop software running on millions of devices deployed by industrial and enterprise customers • Evaluate and select hardware components • Bring up new hardware platforms, boards, prototypes, and sensors • Build systems to gather data and detect meaningful events • Structure recorded data for efficient analysis across thousands of devices • Shape hardware decisions, including SoC, flash/RAM, and sensor selection • Configure I/O and establish SPI, I2C, UART, and BLE communications • Debug system initialization and validate hardware designs • Own peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power management, and connectivity layers • Design protocols and hardware management for battery-powered sensors and gateways • Partner with product, full-stack, mobile, and quality engineers • Produce firmware data that is intact and useful to dispatchers, fleet managers, and technicians • Lead designs, reviews, and engineering practices as a Staff-level force multiplier • Drive consensus across teams and deliver iteratively at global scale

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems shipped to real customers • Fluency in C • Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience, such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS • Experience making scheduling, memory, and timing decisions • Experience bringing up new boards and unproven hardware • Fluency in SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC • Ability to debug hardware-software interfaces • Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers • Staff-level experience leading work across hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality from concept to shipped product • Ability to drive consensus across teams • Ability to write actionable design documents, review comments, and post-mortems • Ability to iterate quickly with automated testing and maintainable code • Experience using AI in daily workflow • BLE, cellular IoT, embedded security, OTA/device firmware updates, Embedded Linux, CAN/J1939, Python, Bash, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and electronics manufacturing experience are differentiators

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Equity for eligible roles • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Flexible working model • Offices available for employees who prefer to work in-person