Senior Firmware Engineer: Edge AI & Video Safety (Remote)

Samsara; Alexandria (VA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Professional development stipend

Flexible working

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead development of next-generation safety and edge-processing features. You will guide architecture, drive low-latency hardware-software integration, and collaborate across Hardware, ML, and Cloud teams. Remote role across the US with strong emphasis on scalable embedded systems.

You will mentor engineers, uphold quality standards, and help deploy real-time video processing at the edge for industrial and fleet applications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of embedded software development experience, preferably with embedded Linux.
• Strong experience in Golang, C/C++, Rust.
• Experience with media pipelines and deploying CV/ML models on edge devices.
• Proven experience defining scalable embedded software architecture.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across Product, Cloud, ML, and Hardware.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Influence a team of engineers on Video-Safety products, guiding architectural decisions and quality.
• Maintain production systems and provide operational support as needed.
• Participate in roadmap planning with cross-functional peers to define key areas and technical direction for Safety products.
• Ensure edge AI models run efficiently within device constraints.
• Collaborate with Hardware, backend, and ML teams to build next-generation devices.
• Mentor engineers and uphold Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale.

Skills

Embedded software

Golang

C/C++

Rust

Edge AI

Media pipelines

Software architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

gstreamer

Google MediaPipe

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead development of next-generation safety and edge-processing features. You will guide architecture, drive low-latency hardware-software integration, and collaborate across Hardware, ML, and Cloud teams. Remote role across the US with strong emphasis on scalable embedded systems.

You will mentor engineers, uphold quality standards, and help deploy real-time video processing at the edge for industrial and fleet applications.