Remote Lead, Safety AI Platform & Edge ML

Samsara; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Sr. Manager of Machine Learning for Safety AI. The role focuses on leading teams that fuse on-device computer vision with sensor data to detect and surface safety events at fleet scale.

You will own the model lifecycle from data curation to deployment, and collaborate with firmware, full-stack, and Platform teams to ship reliable, low-latency features. This remote US-position requires up to 5% travel.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Safety AI Platform Architecture — own technical direction for on-device and cloud safety AI systems.
• Lead the transition from individual model deployments to a coherent platform fusing camera, IMU, GPS and telemetry data.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI capabilities (e.g. VLMs, foundation models) for fleet-scale production.
• Partner with product and full-stack teams to define and ship safety features that reduce accident rates and improve coaching outcomes.
• Lead experiment design, offline/online evaluation, and go/no-go decisions for new ML-powered features.
• Own the full model lifecycle: data curation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Sr. Manager of Machine Learning for Safety AI. The role focuses on leading teams that fuse on-device computer vision with sensor data to detect and surface safety events at fleet scale.

You will own the model lifecycle from data curation to deployment, and collaborate with firmware, full-stack, and Platform teams to ship reliable, low-latency features. This remote US-position requires up to 5% travel.