Remote Firmware Engineer: Embedded IoT & Low-Power

Samsara Inc.; Austin, Seattle, San Francisco (TX, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote-friendly model

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Firmware Engineer to develop software for millions of devices across industrial customers. You will shape hardware choices, bring up new boards, and build the layers that power reliable, secure device operation. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and rapid iteration.

You will work in a flexible model, with opportunities to impact safety, efficiency, and sustainability while advancing your firmware and hardware expertise across platforms.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems.
• Fluency in C and ability to read linker maps and traces.
• Solid bare-metal and RTOS experience (Zephyr/FreeRTOS).
• Experience bringing up new boards from scratch.
• Fluency with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ADC interfaces.
• Strong debugging using oscilloscopes and analyzers.
• Cross-team collaboration across hardware, firmware, cloud, and QA.
• Ability to ship quickly with automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Shape hardware decisions with engineers on SoC, flash/RAM, and sensor selections.
• Bring up new boards and prototypes from virgin silicon.
• Develop drivers, bootloaders, firmware updates, and core management layers.
• Design low-power protocols and device life optimization.
• Collaborate with product, full-stack, mobile, and quality teams for data integrity.

Skills

Firmware engineering

C programming

RTOS experience

Board bring-up

low-level interfaces

Debugging skills

Cross-team collaboration

Documentation

Tools

Zephyr RTOS

FreeRTOS

Linux

Yocto/Buildroot

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Firmware Engineer to develop software for millions of devices across industrial customers. You will shape hardware choices, bring up new boards, and build the layers that power reliable, secure device operation. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and rapid iteration.

You will work in a flexible model, with opportunities to impact safety, efficiency, and sustainability while advancing your firmware and hardware expertise across platforms.