Firmware Engineer Co-Op

Samsara•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Samsara's cloud-connected sensor platform collects observations about the world in near real-time. Samsara builds an extensive set of products, including battery-powered, wireless sensors, linux-based IoT gateways, and Internet-connected dashcams. These devices are the building blocks Samsara uses to construct enterprise solutions for a wide range of verticals, including commercial fleet management and industrial monitoring. Through a unique integration of sensor data such as GPS, acceleration, temperature, video, and more, we enable our customers to gain greater insights into operations, identify and eliminate inefficiencies, and react to alerts all in near real-time. As a firmware engineering intern-MCU at Samsara, you will develop software that runs on millions of devices, deployed by our industrial and enterprise customers. You’ll tackle challenges including evaluating and selecting hardware components, bringing up new hardware platforms and sensors, building systems to gather data and detect meaningful events, and structuring recorded data to allow efficient analysis across thousands of devices while providing deep insights into individual events.

Requirements

Enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field .
Must have solid C programming skills
Familiarity with embedded programming concepts
Prior experience with MCU development environments and tools (Segger J-Link, GCC)
Experience working in bare metal and RTOS-based systems such as Zephyr and/or FreeRTOS
Experience in one or more core technologies such as BLE, GPS, LTE and CAN
Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset to debug and optimize code.
Be excited about sensors, connectivity protocols, distributed systems, and their application to solve real world problems
Thrive in an environment that requires rapid deployment and product iteration based on customer feedback while focusing on automated testing and code quality

Nice To Haves

Any prior projects, coursework, or personal projects related to embedded systems and firmware development would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with other firmware engineers on the team to design, develop and maintain embedded software for our gateway and sensor products
Bring up new hardware platforms: configuring I/O, debugging interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN and ADC, testing connectivity, validating design and debugging system initialization
Implement peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders and device firmware update, core management layers (power manager, connectivity manager, etc)
Design protocols and implement efficient hardware management to optimize energy consumption of battery powered sensors and gateways
Work cross-functionally with different stakeholders across product, full-stack and quality teams to deliver reliable high quality embedded software
Gain hands on experience in a fast-paced and innovative environment
Get valuable mentorship and guidance from experienced firmware engineers
Be exposed to the entire product development lifecycle, from concept to deployment