Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of AI product initiatives on Edge devices, working with large-scale data to optimize ML models and enhance customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of critical AI product initiatives on Edge devices
• Develop both tactical AI solutions as well as more strategic and longer term research
• Work with petabyte-scale data from customer operations including text, transactions, diagnostics, sensor, camera, and location data
• Partner across business units to explore and prototype new AI experiences and optimize the ML model performance on edge devices
• Stay connected to industry and academic research and adopt novel technology that suits Samsara’s needs
• 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

Skills

• 8+ years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer
• Profound experience in optimizing ML models and systems for Edge compute constraints
• Proficient with Spark, Ray, or a similar framework
• Coding in python or similar
• Coding in C++ or Rust
• Strong functional knowledge of the iterative machine learning product development process
• Experienced in developing and shipping production code at large scale
• Ability to distill informal or ambiguous customer and business requirements into crisp problem definitions
• Proven ability to communicate verbally and in writing to technical peers and leadership teams with various levels of technical knowledge
• Experience coaching and mentoring ML Engineers
• Proficiency in self-serving with data for experiments and model training at scale
• An established record of successful high impact deliveries in AI
• Deep knowledge in state of the art Computer Vision and multi-model models

Benefits

• An initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
• Performance-based bonus/variable pay
• Equity (for eligible roles)
• A flexible, employee-led remote model
• A professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
• Flexible Working: Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
• Accommodations: Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities

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