Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Edge AI & Video Safety

Samsara Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is hiring for an embedded software leader to drive Video-Safety products and edge AI on field devices. You’ll influence architecture, own production systems, and help define the roadmap with cross-functional teams across hardware, ML, and cloud software.

You’ll mentor engineers and advocate Samsara’s customer-focused, long-term growth culture. Ideal candidates have deep embedded Linux experience, strong C/C++, Go and Rust skills, and a track record of delivering multi-team initiatives

Qualifications

• 8+ years of embedded software experience, preferably with embedded Linux.
• Strong programming experience in Golang, C/C++, Rust or similar.
• Experience with media pipelines, multimedia frameworks and deploying CV/ML on edge devices.
• Proven experience defining scalable embedded software architecture.
• Experience planning and delivering complex multi-team projects with external dependencies.
• Desire to mentor engineers across levels and communicate with executives.
• Proficiency in collaborating with Product Mgmt, Cloud Software, ML and Hardware teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence a team of engineers on Video-Safety products; guide architecture and improve quality.
• Maintain production systems and provide operational support when needed.
• Participate in roadmap planning with cross-functional peers; define technical direction and priorities.
• Ensure edge AI algorithms run efficiently within device constraints.
• Collaborate with Hardware, backend, and ML teams to define next-gen devices.
• Mentor engineers to raise technical standards and capabilities.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.

Skills

Embedded software

Golang

C/C++

Rust

Video/Edge AI

System architecture

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/CE

Tools

GStreamer

Google MediaPipe

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Samsara is hiring for an embedded software leader to drive Video-Safety products and edge AI on field devices. You’ll influence architecture, own production systems, and help define the roadmap with cross-functional teams across hardware, ML, and cloud software.

You’ll mentor engineers and advocate Samsara’s customer-focused, long-term growth culture. Ideal candidates have deep embedded Linux experience, strong C/C++, Go and Rust skills, and a track record of delivering multi-team initiatives