Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Safety Detection

Samsara; Harrow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave plans

Job summary

Samsara in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Detection Precision team to build core systems that review detections and surface events to customers. You will improve detection precision, handle ambiguous cases, and automate triage, shaping end-to-end systems that directly affect safety outcomes.

You will work at the intersection of backend, data and AI-driven decisioning, collaborating with product, AI/ML infra, and design to turn real-world results into

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software development, backend or distributed systems.
• Experience shipping production systems solving real customer problems.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value.
• Experience designing high-throughput systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core systems that review safety detections and determine which events are surfaced to customers.
• Improve detection precision by developing intelligent approaches to identifying ambiguous cases, deflecting low-value reviews, and automating triage where confidence is high.
• Work at the intersection of backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve customer-facing product quality and internal review efficiency.
• Partner closely with product, design, AI and ML infra to turn real-world review outcomes into better model feedback loops and higher-quality safety detections over time.
• Own complex projects end-to-end, from shaping the approach and technical design through rollout, measurement, and iteration in production.
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering workflows pragmatically to accelerate prototyping, implementation, debugging, and iteration while maintaining strong engineering judgment, reliability, and code quality.
• Raise the bar for quality, operability, and engineering clarity across a critical part of Samsara’s Safety platform.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

Go/Java/Similar

Production systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer focus

Strong fundamentals

Tools

Temporal

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Samsara in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Detection Precision team to build core systems that review detections and surface events to customers. You will improve detection precision, handle ambiguous cases, and automate triage, shaping end-to-end systems that directly affect safety outcomes.

You will work at the intersection of backend, data and AI-driven decisioning, collaborating with product, AI/ML infra, and design to turn real-world results into