Lead AI Security Researcher - Red Team & Firmware

Samsara; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a security engineering professional at the intersection of AI and security to strengthen posture using frontier AI models. This highly visible role shapes Samsara's AI security strategy and involves red-teaming cloud environments, validating firmware vulnerabilities, and securing applications against AI adversaries.

You will deliver accurate security assessments of software, code, and firmware, translate AI security findings into Samsara-specific fixes, and build AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, or offensive security.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to real security workflows, including building with APIs, agents, or automation.
• Experience conducting security assessments across software and hardware/firmware environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate, consistent security assessments of software, code, and firmware, evaluating resilience against AI-driven attacks.
• Create and translate general AI security findings into Samsara-specific fixes for application security.
• Build and pressure-test novel AI-enabled security tooling and workflows, driving adoption across the security org.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability management

AI security

Job description

Samsara is seeking a security engineering professional at the intersection of AI and security to strengthen posture using frontier AI models. This highly visible role shapes Samsara's AI security strategy and involves red-teaming cloud environments, validating firmware vulnerabilities, and securing applications against AI adversaries.

You will deliver accurate security assessments of software, code, and firmware, translate AI security findings into Samsara-specific fixes, and build AI-enabled