Samsara

Finance & Strategy AI Engineer

Samsara
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$146k - $246k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the Finance & Strategy data foundation and AI roadmap, including architecture, modeling strategy, system gap analysis, and ongoing Workday Adaptive Planning support.
  • Design, build, and maintain pipelines and integrations connecting Databricks, NetSuite, Workday, Adaptive, Salesforce, and other financial systems.
  • Build agentic close capabilities and AI-powered tools for forecasting, scenario planning, variance and driver analysis, workforce planning, and management reporting.
  • Lead cross-functional alignment across Finance, BizTech, PeopleOps, Accounting, and other teams on shared system workstreams.
  • Evaluate and implement emerging AI, automation, and data infrastructure technologies.
  • Establish data modeling, infrastructure, data quality, governance, and access-control practices while providing documentation, training, technical support, and troubleshooting.
  • Measure the impact of solutions on close cycle time, forecast accuracy, adoption, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, or Accounting, or comparable work experience.
  • 8+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade data pipelines, integrations, and enterprise applications.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM applications, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python for scripting, data manipulation, and API interactions.
  • Experience with SQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
  • Experience with data platforms, warehouses, and enterprise systems such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, NetSuite, Workday, Adaptive, Salesforce, Google Suite, and Slack.
  • Working knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and close processes.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including presenting to senior management.
  • Preferred experience building production agentic systems with orchestration frameworks, tool use, and evaluation techniques beyond prompt engineering.
  • Preferred experience in a high-growth or public-company finance environment and the ability to operate amid ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Flexible employee-led remote model with offices available for in-person work and support for hybrid or fully remote arrangements where operationally appropriate.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
  • Performance-based bonus or variable pay and equity eligibility, including an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance.
  • Role is open to candidates residing in the United States.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftDatabricksPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

AI ApplicationsBackendData Engineering
Samsara

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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