Senior AI Safety Detection Engineer — Precision Systems

Samsara

United Kingdom

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

9 days ago
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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.

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