Senior Software Engineer – AI Safety Detection Precision

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance fundamental systems that assess safety detections and decide which events should be presented to customers.

• Increase detection accuracy by identifying unclear cases, redirecting low-value reviews, and automating high-confidence triage processes.

• Collaborate across backend systems, data, and AI-driven decision-making to enhance both product quality for customers and efficiency in internal reviews.

• Work in partnership with product, design, AI, and ML infrastructure teams to refine model feedback loops and safety detections.

• Manage intricate projects from conception and design through to deployment, evaluation, and iterative production improvements.

• Leverage modern AI-assisted engineering practices for prototyping, implementation, troubleshooting, and iterative development.

• Elevate quality, operability, and engineering clarity throughout Samsara’s Safety platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in software development, mainly focusing on backend or distributed systems.

• Proven experience on a product engineering team delivering systems that address genuine customer needs.

• Clear focus on customer experience and the ability to link technical decisions to customer value.

• Regular utilization of modern AI coding and reasoning tools, coupled with sound judgment to validate outputs and uphold correctness, maintainability, and reliability.

• Strong foundation in programming and software engineering principles.

• Experience with production systems in at least one contemporary programming language.

• Proven experience in designing and constructing large-scale, high-throughput systems.

• Experience working in a data-driven and data-supported environment.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills across teams and functions.

• Capability to lead technical discussions in a clear and constructive manner.

• Preferred: experience in developing AI-native engineering workflows.

• Preferred: familiarity with real-world human or AI review systems.

• Preferred: partnership experience with AI or ML teams and knowledge of classifier-based systems.

• Preferred: extensive experience in backend-oriented programming languages like Go, Java, or similar.

• Preferred: experience in designing orchestrated pipelines or workflow-based systems such as Temporal.

• Preferred: experience in data experimentation and iteration.

• Preferred: a data-driven mindset.

• Preferred: a history of improving systems, contributing to team culture, mentoring, and assisting teammates in achieving better outcomes.

• Preferred: a curiosity and ambition to challenge existing product and engineering methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including base salary, performance-based bonuses/variable pay, and equity for eligible positions.

• Flexible, employee-driven remote working model.

• Professional development allowance.

• Comprehensive health insurance plans.

• Parental leave policies.

• Flexible working arrangements with options for remote, hybrid, or in-person work according to operational needs.