Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Edge AI

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design and execution of key AI product initiatives on Edge devices.

• Create tactical AI solutions alongside strategic, long-term research efforts.

• Work with petabyte-scale customer operations data, encompassing text, transactions, diagnostics, sensor, camera, and location data.

• Collaborate across business units to discover and prototype innovative AI experiences.

• Enhance the performance of ML models on edge devices.

• Maintain connections with industry and academic research to adopt relevant novel technologies.

• Advocate for and integrate Samsara’s cultural principles as the company expands globally and opens new offices.

• Work in partnership with ML Engineers, Scientists, full-stack engineers, and firmware engineers to deliver product features, services, and optimizations.

• Travel up to 5% of the time.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer.

• Extensive experience in optimizing ML models and systems under Edge compute constraints.

• Proficiency in coding with Python or similar languages.

• Experience coding in C++ or Rust.

• Strong functional understanding of the iterative machine learning product development process.

• Proven experience in developing and deploying production code at a large scale.

• Capability to translate informal or ambiguous customer and business requirements into clear problem definitions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for engaging with technical peers and leadership teams with varying levels of technical expertise.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring ML Engineers.

• Adeptness in self-serving data for experiments and model training at scale.

• Proven track record of successful high-impact deliveries in AI.

• In-depth knowledge of cutting-edge Computer Vision and multimodal models.

• Candidates must reside within the United States.

• Ability to obtain and maintain the legal right to work at Samsara and within the specified work location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff.

• Ongoing equity refresh opportunities based on performance.

• Performance-based bonus/variable pay.

• Equity available for eligible roles.

• Flexible, employee-led remote working model.

• Professional development stipend.

• Comprehensive health plans.

• Parental leave plans.

• Offices accessible for employees who prefer in-person work.

• Reasonable accommodations provided throughout the recruitment process.