Engineering Manager, AI-Powered Systems — Remote

Samsara; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is hiring Engineering Managers across multiple verticals. You will lead and grow a team of engineers, hire top talent, coach performance, and build a culture of ownership and velocity.

You will define technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities, guide full-stack delivery, and partner with product, design, and customer teams to deliver AI-powered solutions that improve operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software design and development, including production systems at scale.
• 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers.
• Strong fundamentals across backend, APIs, and frontend; able to guide architecture.
• Familiarity with Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React or similar.
• Experience leading cross-team projects and AI-powered products.
• Excellent communication with executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers; hire top talent, coach and develop individuals, manage performance, and build a culture of ownership, quality, and velocity.
• Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them; set direction from day one.
• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities, from backend services and APIs to the customer-facing UI.
• Guide your team to design and ship full-stack features end to end, delivering AI-powered products that solve real operational problems across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous, real-world problems into clear technical plans, staffing, and measurable outcomes.
• Oversee the systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and the workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators.
• Raise the bar across engineering through design reviews, hiring standards, mentorship of senior engineers and future leaders.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

Frontend

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Leadership

AI/ML familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Samsara is hiring Engineering Managers across multiple verticals. You will lead and grow a team of engineers, hire top talent, coach performance, and build a culture of ownership and velocity.

You will define technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities, guide full-stack delivery, and partner with product, design, and customer teams to deliver AI-powered solutions that improve operations.