Lead Design Engineer

Samsara; Calgary; À distance; CAD 151 000 - 196 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible remote work

Professional development stipend

Parental leave plans

Résumé du poste

Samsara, a leader in Connected Operations Cloud, seeks a Lead Design Engineer to build core design systems and AI-enabled design tools for web and mobile. You will set patterns, tokens, and guidelines used across teams, shaping product interfaces and interactions at scale.

You’ll work across design and code, ensuring accessibility, performance, and high quality UX, while collaborating with a global, high-caliber team in a dynamic, hyper-growth environment.

Qualifications

• Shipped design system or component library work with portfolio, case studies, or code samples.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with judgment to use established patterns.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• Portfolio required for consideration.

Responsabilités

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure, preventing AI slop from reaching customers.
• Ensure system decisions translate into code with shared ownership of quality and performance.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed with integrity.
• Meet with designers and engineers to incorporate feedback and usage data.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with design and engineering teams.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally.

Connaissances

Design systems

UX/UI design

Web & mobile UX

Formation

CS/HCI degree

Outils

Figma

Cursor

Claude Code

Figma Make

Description du poste

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. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.

Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.

About this role:

As a Lead Design Engineer at Samsara, you'll build the systems that power our product and scale our impact as a design team. You'll define the components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for both people and agents to build with. You'll work in design and in code, shipping highly interactive UI across web and mobile. You’ll codify our principles, heuristics, and taste for high quality ai generation. Your work will shape how quickly teams can build, how reliably our products behave, and how confidently customers use them.

This is a remote role open to candidates residing in Canada.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact – helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. Youwill be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

Who we are

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. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.

Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.

About this role:

As a Lead Design Engineer at Samsara, you'll build the systems that power our product and scale our impact as a design team. You'll define the components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for both people and agents to build with. You'll work in design and in code, shipping highly interactive UI across web and mobile. You’ll codify our principles, heuristics, and taste for high quality ai generation. Your work will shape how quickly teams can build, how reliably our products behave, and how confidently customers use them.

This is a remote role open to candidates residing in Canada.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact – helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. Youwill be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will:

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure, preventing ai slop from ever making it into our customers’ hands.
• Make sure system decisions translate cleanly into code, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance speed with system integrity.
• Meet regularly with the designers and engineers who use the system, and bring their feedback alongside usage data into what you build next.
• Share the AI tools, workflows, and tactics that work with the wider design and engineering teams.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as the company scales globally across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering, building UX/UI for web and mobile applications.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• Shipped design system or component library work, with a portfolio, case studies, or code samples that explain what you built, how you decided, and how teams adopted it. We cannot consider applications without a portfolio at this time.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with the judgment to know when to use an established pattern and when to invent one.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools in your regular practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make), with shipped work you can attribute to them, and experience connecting them to a design system. You can explain, review, and debug the code they generate.
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

Annual Base Salary: $151,300 CAD - $195,800 CAD

Total Rewards

At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.

Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.

Flexible Working

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.

Belonging at Samsara

At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and want to ensure that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.

Accommodations

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