4 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$162k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Select SoCs, memory, and sensors and validate hardware choices through prototypes.
- Bring up new boards and platforms from first power-on, including system initialization and peripheral configuration.
- Develop peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power-management layers, and connectivity management.
- Optimize firmware protocols and hardware management for long battery life.
- Work with product, full-stack, mobile, quality, electrical, cloud, and hardware teams to ship complete products.
- Lead firmware development from architecture through validation and product launch across multiple new products.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, improve engineering practices, and connect technical decisions to customer outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems.
- End-to-end leadership of firmware development for several products, from concept through launch.
- Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience, including Zephyr, FreeRTOS, or equivalent.
- Experience bringing up new boards and debugging the hardware-software boundary.
- Fluency in SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ADC, and C.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers for hardware debugging.
- Senior-level experience spanning hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality, with a track record of cross-team consensus building.
- Ability to read linker maps and stack traces and diagnose corrupted heaps.
- Experience with automated testing, technical documentation, design reviews, and post-mortems.
- Preferred experience with BLE, cellular IoT and LTE-M or NB-IoT modem integration, FCC/PTCRB and carrier approvals, embedded security, firmware signing, cryptography, key management, OTA updates, A/B partitions, rollback, electronics manufacturing, and factory-floor production quality.
- Experience with C, Golang, Google protocol buffers, and AWS is useful but not required.
Benefits
- Above-market total compensation including equity, performance-based incentives, and benefits.
- Employee-led remote and flexible working model, with offices available for in-person work and location requirements where applicable.
- Health benefits, parental leave, and a professional development stipend.
- Samsara for Good fund and employee-led team incentive programs.
- Employment offers are contingent on maintaining the legal right 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.