Sr Software Engineer I/II, Operational AI
About The Position
Samsara’s Operational AI team is developing AI-powered products that turn safety cameras into tools for understanding everyday operations. These products help customers observe the work, conditions, and events that matter to them across their vehicles and teams. The Sr Software Engineer will build agentic solutions that enable customers to create custom detections and workflows. The role owns work from initial customer conversations through design, implementation, and production operation, spanning backend services and customer-facing software. The engineer will partner with platform and machine learning engineers on AI capabilities in the cloud and on devices, and help shape product and technical direction by translating early ideas and customer feedback into dependable software. Candidates may reside in the United States or Canada.
Requirements
- Strong programming and system design fundamentals.
- Experience owning software in production, making technical tradeoffs, and diagnosing complex issues.
- Proficiency using AI coding agents across the software lifecycle, including brainstorming, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and production support.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and build alignment across engineering, product, and design.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building agentic products.
- Experience developing hybrid cloud and edge solutions.
- Experience applying computer vision or large language models.
Responsibilities
- Translate customer needs into engineering plans, define useful initial releases, explain tradeoffs, and adapt plans based on learning.
- Design and ship features across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing experiences; build reusable capabilities for recurring customer needs.
- Partner with platform, machine learning, product, and design teams to connect AI detections and agents with operational workflows.
- Build customer trust through accurate, consistent, and transparent AI detections, recommendations, and actions; measure detection quality and customer impact to guide improvements.
- Improve product reliability, response time, and compute cost as usage grows.
- Own production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and post-launch improvements.
- Shape architecture and technical priorities while balancing new features with reliability, maintainability, and future growth.
- Support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and mentorship.
- Apply Samsara’s principles by focusing on customer success, building for the long term, adopting a growth mindset, being inclusive, and working as a team.
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
- Flexible, employee-led remote work model.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health plans.
- Parental leave plans.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
