Staff/Senior Firmware Engineer

🕒 October 15

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $162.4k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 Hardware Engineer

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Samsara

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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 for industrial and enterprise customers • Evaluate and select hardware components, including SoCs, flash/RAM, and sensors • Bring up new hardware platforms and sensors from virgin silicon • Configure I/O and establish SPI, I2C, UART, and BLE communication • Debug system initialization and validate hardware designs • Develop peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power management, and connectivity layers • Design protocols and hardware management for battery-powered sensors and gateways to maximize device life • Build systems to collect data and detect meaningful events • Structure recorded data for efficient analysis across thousands of devices • Partner with electrical, product, full-stack, mobile, quality, and other engineering teams • Ensure firmware data reaches dispatchers, fleet managers, and technicians intact and useful • Lead technical designs, rigorous reviews, mentorship, engineering practices, and cross-functional consensus • Connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes • Deliver high-quality solutions iteratively

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems • Experience leading firmware development for several new products end to end, from concept through architecture, implementation, validation, and launch • Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience, such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS • Experience bringing up new boards and debugging hardware/software issues • Fluency in SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC interfaces • Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers • Senior-level experience spanning hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality from concept to shipped product • Ability to trace driver-level decisions to customer outcomes and make cross-layer trade-offs • Fluency in C, including compiler behavior, linker maps, stack traces, and corrupted heap analysis • Ability to write actionable design documents, review comments, and post-mortems • Experience iterating quickly with customer feedback while maintaining automated testing and maintainable code • Experience using AI in daily workflow • Experience with BLE at depth, including PHY-level understanding, is a plus • Cellular IoT experience with LTE-M or NB-IoT, power state management, and FCC, PTCRB, or carrier approval is a plus • Embedded security experience including secure boot, firmware signing, cryptography, and key management is a plus • OTA/device firmware updates at fleet scale, including A/B partitions and rollback, is a plus • Factory-floor experience with electronics mass production, quality assurance, and production issue resolution is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Above market-rate salary • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing equity refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Employee-led remote and flexible working • Team-based incentive schemes • Health benefits • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Professional development stipend • Samsara for Good fund • Flexible working model • Remote work support where aligned with operational requirements • Office access for employees who prefer to work in-person

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