Staff Firmware Engineer

Description:

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 Staff Embedded Software Engineer 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.

We use C for our MCU-based platforms, Golang for embedded applications on Linux-based gateways and backend services, Google protocol buffers to structure data, and various AWS technologies to process and store data. Experience with these exact technologies is not required.

In this role, you will:

• Have organizational-wide impact by creating and shepherding processes for improving developer productivity and quality, ultimately towards customer satisfaction.
• Work closely with the hardware team to specify and optimize software on our devices.
• Mentor and coach all levels of firmware engineers; recognized as a leader throughout the company.
• Drive the long-term technical roadmap for the organization.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
• Automatically included - do not run through Bias Decoder:
  • All Roles: Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
  • People Manager Roles: Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Able to architect large projects as well as dive deep to assist teams on implementation
• Has been instrumental to the successful shipment of products at scale
• At least 10 years experience as a software developer, with the majority in embedded firmware on devices
• Understands of complex systems including telematics systems, cameras, sensors, and how they are used in machine learning applications
• Proven record of serving as technical lead over large and complex teams of firmware engineers