Head of Safety AI & Edge-Cloud Vision

Samsara Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 179,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote-friendly

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Sr. Manager of Machine Learning to lead the Safety AI platform for on-device and cloud systems powering driver safety insights.

You will own the model lifecycle, fuse camera, IMU, GPS, and telemetry data, and guide architecture decisions across edge vs cloud to deliver low-latency, high-precision safety events at fleet scale. You’ll build and lead a high-performing applied science and engineering team, shape experiment design, and partner with product and platform teams to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in applied ML or computer vision, with a strong track record of shipping models to production in real-world systems.
• 5+ years leading technical teams of scientists and engineers, including senior ICs.
• Experience shipping CV and/or sensor fusion systems that fuse multiple data streams in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for Samsara's on-device and cloud safety AI systems — making architectural decisions about edge vs cloud deployments.
• Lead the transition to a coherent platform that fuses camera, IMU, GPS, and telemetry data to detect and surface safety events with high precision and low latency.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI capabilities (e.g. LLMs, foundation models) for fleet-scale production use.
• Define, scope, and ship safety features that reduce accident rates and improve driver coaching outcomes.
• Lead experiment design, offline/online evaluations, and go/no-go decisions for ML-powered features.
• Own the full model lifecycle: data curation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Hire, coach, and develop senior ICs and engineers; shape growth paths in technical and leadership tracks.

Skills

Applied ML

Computer Vision

Team Leadership

Edge/Cloud ML

Sensor Fusion

CV/DL Systems

Experiment Design

Education

MS in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering

PhD (preferred)

Tools

CUDA

ML frameworks (TensorFlow / PyTorch)

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Sr. Manager of Machine Learning to lead the Safety AI platform for on-device and cloud systems powering driver safety insights.

You will own the model lifecycle, fuse camera, IMU, GPS, and telemetry data, and guide architecture decisions across edge vs cloud to deliver low-latency, high-precision safety events at fleet scale. You’ll build and lead a high-performing applied science and engineering team, shape experiment design, and partner with product and platform teams to