Senior AI Data Engineer

NextGenEnergyJobs; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 118,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a data/AI engineer within Marketing Data and Analytics to turn ambiguous problems into data products, AI agents, and automation. You will build and operate production AI systems, design pipelines, and maintain the Customer Data Platform to enable advanced segmentation and analytics.

You will collaborate with BI and Data Science to expand conversational analytics, automate workflows, and ship robust Python and SQL code.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data or AI engineering with hands-on data engineering.
• Expert Python and SQL with strong data modeling.
• Built and shipped systems using LLMs or agents in production.
• Familiar with Databricks, ETL/ELT, and modern data stack tools.
• Lead requirements gathering and translate business needs into tech solutions.
• Self-starter with clear communication across technical and non-technical teams.
• Software engineering background with data/AI focus and problem solving.
• Experience supporting marketing, sales, or business operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production AI systems including agent orchestration and integrations.
• Architect and maintain marketing databases, pipelines, and the CDP for segmentation and analytics.
• Collaborate with BI to extend conversational analytics across marketing.
• Automate workflows with AI and deliver efficiency gains across marketing teams.
• Stand up new data pipelines end-to-end and ensure data quality and reliability.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business questions into scalable technical solutions.
• Ship high-quality Python and SQL and review AI-generated outputs before production.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and define team best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs

Agentic tools

Data warehousing

Databricks

DBT

Snowflake

BigQuery

Salesforce

Marketing automation

CDP

Job description

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Marketing Data and Analytics (MDA) is an integral team within Marketing. Our mission is to strengthen revenue performance by providing marketing and sales teams with the insights, tools, infrastructure, and consultation to make data-driven decisions. This role sits on MDA's Engineering team, working alongside our BI and Data Science teams. We are a scrappy, fast-moving team that takes ambiguous business problems and turns them into data products, AI agents, and automation, all while architecting and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers Samsara's marketing. This role is for someone who thinks on their feet, moves fast, and is comfortable owning problems end to end.
• This role is open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
• Design, build, and operate production AI systems, including agent orchestration, tool and API integrations, retrieval pipelines, and the evaluation harnesses that keep them reliable and trustworthy.
• Architect and maintain marketing databases, datasets, pipelines, and Samsara's Customer Data Platform (CDP) to enable advanced segmentation, targeting, automation, and analytics.
• Partner with the BI team to expand conversational analytics across the marketing organization.
• Identify and automate manual workflows with AI, taking ideas from concept to prototype to a credible path to production, and delivering efficiency gains across marketing and go-to-market teams.
• Stand up new data pipelines end to end, often for a tool that was onboarded yesterday: discovering the schema, working with partners inside Samsara and at the vendor, getting the data processed, and integrating it into our downstream systems.
• Own the reliability and data quality of what you build.
• Autonomously partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, R&D, and more) to translate ambiguous business questions into technical requirements and scalable solutions, without dedicated PM support.
• Ship high-quality Python and SQL, increasingly by directing agentic coding tools, while holding a high bar for reviewing and verifying AI-generated work before it reaches production.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and help define best practices for the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of working experience in a data engineering or AI engineering role, including meaningful hands-on data engineering experience.
• Expert Python and SQL knowledge with strong hands-on data modeling experience.
• You have built and shipped systems that use LLMs or agents in production as part of your job.
• Agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) are part of your regular workflow. You actively seek out new ways to use AI to accelerate your work, and you verify and take ownership of AI-generated output.
• Deep experience with data warehouse architectures, ETL/ELT, and the modern data stack (e.g., Databricks, DBT, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements gathering independently, bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation, and to spot opportunities for automation through exploratory conversations with stakeholders.
• A self-starter who performs well independently and as a team member, with strong communication and project management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• A software engineering background beyond data or AI engineering, and a track record of taking ambiguous, unfamiliar problems and turning them into well-architected, delivered solutions.
• Experience directly supporting a business function such as marketing, sales, finance, or business operations.
• Experience working with Databricks.
• Familiarity with go-to-market data and systems: CRM (e.g., Salesforce), marketing automation, web analytics, and CDPs (e.g., Hightouch, Segment).
• Experience evaluating and monitoring LLM systems in production.
• The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.
• $118,107.50
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• $178,650 USD
• At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.
• Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.