Senior Engineering Manager — AI & Platform

Samsara Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking Engineering Managers across multiple verticals to lead teams that build AI-powered products at scale. You’ll hire, mentor, and shape the technical direction across backend, frontend, and platform layers while delivering zero-to-one initiatives that impact real-world operations.

You should be a hands-on leader who thrives in fast growth, partners with product and design, and can translate complex problems into clear roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software design and development experience, including production systems at scale.
• 3+ years of direct experience managing software engineers, including hiring and career development.
• Strong fundamentals across backend services, APIs, and frontend; ability to guide architecture.
• Experience leading cross-team projects from inception to rollout; ability to turn ambiguity into plans.
• Experience building AI-powered or data-driven products.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of building zero-to-one products and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire top talent, coach and develop individuals, manage performance, and build a culture of ownership, quality, and velocity.
• Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them. We want to point you in a direction and show up to the demo meeting impressed, not spend our weeks managing the details.
• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities, from backend services and APIs to the customer-facing UI.
• Guide your team to design and ship full-stack features end to end, delivering AI-powered products that solve real operational problems across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous, real-world problems into clear technical plans, staffing, and measurable outcomes.
• Oversee the systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and the workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators, and stay close enough to the technical work to guide architecture and make sound tradeoffs.
• Raise the bar across engineering through design reviews, hiring standards, mentorship of senior engineers and future leaders, and by setting the standard for quality, velocity, and craft.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

System design

People management

AI/ML products

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Samsara is seeking Engineering Managers across multiple verticals to lead teams that build AI-powered products at scale. You’ll hire, mentor, and shape the technical direction across backend, frontend, and platform layers while delivering zero-to-one initiatives that impact real-world operations.

You should be a hands-on leader who thrives in fast growth, partners with product and design, and can translate complex problems into clear roadmaps.