Senior Software Engineer - Safety Detection & AI

Samsara; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Equity for eligible roles

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave plans

Flexible working model

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance core safety review systems. You will work at the intersection of backend infrastructure, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve customer-facing products and internal review efficiency.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end projects, collaborating with product and ML teams, and using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while upholding reliability and code quality.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience, backend or distributed systems.
• Experience shipping production systems that solve customer problems.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value.
• Strong programming fundamentals; experience in at least one modern language.
• Experience designing large-scale, high-throughput systems.
• Experience operating in a data-led environment.
• Excellent cross-team communication; lead technical discussions clearly.
• AI-first engineer using modern AI tools to improve efficiency and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core systems that review safety detections and surface events to customers.
• Improve detection precision by intelligent triage and deflection of low-value reviews.
• Work at intersection of backend, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve product quality and internal efficiency.
• Collaborate with product, design, AI and ML infra to feed back model learning and improve detections.
• Own complex projects end-to-end from design to rollout and production measurement.
• Use AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate prototyping while maintaining reliability.
• Raise the bar for quality and operability across the Safety platform.

Skills

Backend

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional

Production systems

Customer value

Tools

Java

Cloud

IoT

Firmware

Hardware

Support

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance core safety review systems. You will work at the intersection of backend infrastructure, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve customer-facing products and internal review efficiency.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end projects, collaborating with product and ML teams, and using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while upholding reliability and code quality.