Senior AI Safety Detection Engineer — Precision Systems

Samsara; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Equity for eligible roles

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Detection Precision team. You will build core systems that review safety detections, identify ambiguous cases, and automate triage to improve real-world risk reduction.

You will work across backend, data and AI infra, partnering with product and ML teams to translate customer outcomes into better model feedback and higher-quality safety detections. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership and scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience on backend or distributed systems.
• Experience on a product engineering team shipping production systems.
• Demonstrable focus on customer experience with technical decisions tied to customer value.
• AI-first engineer using modern AI tools to improve efficiency and code quality.
• Strong fundamentals in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience designing and building large-scale, high-throughput systems.
• Data-driven mindset with cross-team collaboration and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core safety review systems and determine which events are surfaced to customers.
• Improve detection precision by identifying ambiguous cases and automating triage.
• Work at the intersection of backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve product quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with product, design, AI and ML infra to feed model feedback loops and better detections.
• Own complex projects end-to-end from design through rollout and production iteration.
• Employ AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate prototyping while maintaining reliability and code quality.
• Raise the bar for operability and engineering clarity in Samsara's Safety platform.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

Go/Java

Customer-focused engineering

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Detection Precision team. You will build core systems that review safety detections, identify ambiguous cases, and automate triage to improve real-world risk reduction.

You will work across backend, data and AI infra, partnering with product and ML teams to translate customer outcomes into better model feedback and higher-quality safety detections. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership and scalable, reliable systems.