Samsara

Senior Software Engineer - AI Safety Detection Precision

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8 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve core systems that review safety detections and determine which events are surfaced to customers.
  • Improve detection precision by identifying ambiguous cases, deflecting low-value reviews, and automating high-confidence triage.
  • Work across backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve product quality and review efficiency.
  • Partner with product, design, AI, and ML infrastructure teams to improve model feedback loops and safety detections.
  • Own complex projects from technical approach and design through production rollout, measurement, and iteration.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering workflows for prototyping, implementation, debugging, testing, and iteration while maintaining code quality and reliability.
  • Raise standards for quality, operability, and engineering clarity across the Safety platform.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software development experience, primarily in backend or distributed systems.
  • Experience shipping product-engineering systems that solve real customer problems.
  • Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with production experience in at least one modern programming language.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale, high-throughput systems.
  • Experience working in a data-led and data-backed environment.
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value and communicate effectively across teams.
  • Preferred: experience with human or AI review systems, data annotation workflows, or customer-facing quality control.
  • Preferred: experience partnering with AI or ML teams and familiarity with classifier-based or model-driven product workflows.
  • Preferred: deep experience with backend languages such as Go or Java.
  • Preferred: experience designing orchestrated pipelines or workflow systems, including Temporal or similar frameworks.
  • Preferred: experience developing AI-native engineering workflows and improving team use of AI tools.
  • Preferred: experience mentoring teammates, improving systems, and raising team engineering standards.

Benefits

  • Flexible, employee-led remote work model, with office, hybrid, or location requirements depending on the position.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Comprehensive health plans and parental leave plans.
  • Compensation includes base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles; amounts are not stated.

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About Samsara

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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