Senior Software Engineer - Safety - GenAI

About the role:

The Context Intelligence team builds systems and customer-facing products that power Samsara’s safety solutions. Detections are central: we convert data from millions of vehicles, assets, and cameras into events that identify unsafe driving behaviors and highlight positive habits. At scale, this means detecting not only well-known driver behaviors but also a broader range of events across road conditions, infrastructure, and operations.

As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will build AI-powered products that analyze camera footage, telemetry, and other vehicle data to surface new detections and insights at scale. You will collaborate closely with Sales Engineering, Product and ML teams to define and deliver new event detections and features. You’ll own complex technical problems, help shape our detection platform, and deliver scalable solutions that improve real-world outcomes for customers globally.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

In this role, you will:

• Build and release new features rapidly, validate with customers, and evolve them toward robust, scalable solutions.
• Solve complex problems and own the success of your solutions as you architect, build, test, and deliver full-stack products.
• Build upon skills and knowledge across a range of technologies, such as Go, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and MySQL. Previous experience with these technologies is not required.
• Own the operational health of production systems as we build for the future scale of an ever-growing customer base.
• Make an impact on our core architecture, roadmap, and the wider engineering community.
• 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.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience shipping features that are used by customers and iterate on customer feedback to inform what to deliver next.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate. You can explain why you build something a certain way and be open to suggestions from other engineers and stakeholders.
• A growth mindset and excitement around building new skills and expertise.
• Should be a quick learner and operate with minimum supervision.
• Comfortable with building out end-to-end solutions. A preference for front-end or back-end development is okay, but you’ll need to be happy working across the stack.
• Maintain production systems your team owns and provide operational support when necessary.
• Early adopter of AI technology with demonstrated strong interest in AI applications.

An ideal candidate also has:

• 5+ years of full stack experience working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to an early-stage product.
• Experience taking LLM systems into production for customer-facing features at scale.
• Effectively collaborated on a geographically distributed team.
• Experience maintaining software products at scale.
• Experience in Go, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and AWS is a plus.