Senior Hardware Systems Engineer

Samsara • San Francisco, CA

81d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Hardware Electrical Systems Engineer to join our fast-growing product line and team. In the day-to-day, you will be responsible for driving the EE aspects of the architecture and design of products based on thorough feasibility, design, and cost studies encompassing key component selection, thermals, antenna, etc. We have a tremendous amount of telemetry and access to customers that help guide our design process, and you will work directly with them to design the right product. We run a collaborative process working closely with Product Management, PD, FW, EPM, NPI, and Hardware leadership to make excellent tradeoffs and choices. Throughout this process, you'll share your expertise with other engineers. The US and Taiwan EE teams are supported by the Supply Chain team, laboratories, JDM design resources, and a growing supply base. You will work closely with these internal and external partners to achieve our objectives. This is a hybrid position requiring three days per week in our San Francisco, CA office and two days working remotely. This position requires travel up to 25% of the time and proximity to an international airport. Relocation assistance will be provided for this role. We are open to candidates residing in the U.S. who are willing and able to relocate to the Bay Area.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping high volume hardware programs with ODM and JDM partners.
• Systems design expertise such as chipset/SoC selection, power optimization, antennas/RF, batteries, sensors, PCB design, etc.
• Proven record navigating tradeoffs between design, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
• Worked on a wide variety of systems for different use cases including automotive, indoor and outdoor industrial areas leveraging low power, wireless (LTE, BLE, WiFi, GPS), embedded AI/ML, imaging, sensors, etc.
• Proven record of system bring up/debug including desense, validation, power, etc.
• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• Ability to travel up to 25% when necessary.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive independent work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with certifications and testing involved with industrial and automotive settings (ISO16750, AECQ100, etc).
• Schematic and layout experience in Altium and Cadence Allegro.
• Systems design expertise with cameras, extreme environmental conditions.
• Experience with design for supply, design for reliability / testing, design for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Ship successful products at scale (high volume).
• Conduct research: Stay informed of the latest silicon possibilities from all the top semiconductor companies.
• Evaluate system feature tradeoffs and create the system specifications for development with product management and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Spearhead the development process from prototyping through field validation according to performance, cost and schedule goals.
• Manage internal development team with top JDM companies to design, validate, certify and manufacture quality products, certification labs and other external consultants.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees