1 day ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$114k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Select SoCs, memory, and sensors and validate hardware choices through prototypes.
- Bring up new boards and platforms, configure I/O, initialize systems, and debug hardware-software issues.
- Develop peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power-management, and connectivity layers.
- Optimize battery-powered devices for low energy consumption and long field life.
- Collaborate with product, full-stack, mobile, cloud, electrical, manufacturing, and quality teams to ship reliable products.
- Create designs and reviews, document decisions, and contribute to engineering practices and post-mortems.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience building firmware for resource-constrained systems shipped to real customers.
- Fluency in C and experience debugging compiler output, linker maps, stack traces, and memory issues.
- Experience with bare-metal development and an RTOS such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
- Experience bringing up new boards and unproven hardware.
- Fluency with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC interfaces.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers for hardware debugging.
- Experience spanning hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality through shipped products.
- Ability to write effective design documentation, reviews, and post-mortems and work cross-functionally.
- Experience with automated testing and iterative customer-focused development.
- Preferred experience with BLE, LTE-M or NB-IoT, secure boot, firmware signing, cryptography, key management, OTA updates, A/B partitions, rollback, Yocto, Buildroot, kernel drivers, device trees, CAN/J1939, Python, Bash, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and electronics manufacturing.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $113,645-$191,000 USD, plus potential bonus or variable pay and equity for eligible roles.
- Flexible employee-led remote model with office, hybrid, or remote work depending on operational requirements and location.
- Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, and additional total-rewards benefits.
- Employment is contingent on securing and maintaining legal authorization to work in the company and specified work location.
About Samsara
Samsara builds a Connected Operations Cloud that uses IoT hardware and software to help fleets and other physical-operations organizations monitor vehicles, assets, and worksites. Its platform spans video-based driver safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, and mobile workflows, sold as subscriptions with accompanying devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Samsara is a public company on the NYSE (ticker: IOT) serving transportation, construction, manufacturing, field services, and government.