Staff Firmware Engineer

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🌐 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

• Own outcomes end-to-end from customer problem to shipped, measured feature across firmware, Go backend services, and web/mobile surfaces • Drive technology choices and implement embedded and firmware solutions • Establish architectural patterns with broad impact across device-to-cloud products • Leverage voice as an interface for AI Agents and human communication • Design for device constraints, connectivity, cloud services, and fleet-scale rollout • Identify opportunities and influence technology direction and engineering culture • Ensure edge AI algorithms are accurate and operate within device constraints • Build with AI agents and raise team AI fluency • Partner with Hardware, Backend, Web, Mobile, Product, and Customer Success teams • Lead teams delivering products and capabilities contributing to products and revenue • Solve complex technical problems and accelerate high-quality product delivery • Act as a multiplier for team impact and output • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying software • At least 2 years in a technical leadership or architecture role • Deep expertise in at least one embedded domain, such as multimedia, connectivity, drivers and kernel, power, or real-time systems • Experience shipping across firmware, Go backend services, and web or mobile surfaces • Strong programming skills in C/C++, Go, Python, or similar • Product and systems thinking, including device constraints, connectivity, cloud, and fleet-scale rollout • Experience using AI tools in day-to-day engineering work and building with AI agents • Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex, high-impact projects with multiple dependencies • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Track record of building systems under scarce compute, data, or hardware budgets • Expertise in multimedia frameworks, video codecs, and camera systems (ideal candidate) • Experience developing and managing software for large-scale embedded systems deployed on 1M+ devices (ideal candidate) • Experience deploying CV/ML models on edge devices (ideal candidate) • Background in robotics, drones, consumer electronics, or automotive (ideal candidate)

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing equity 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