Senior Software Engineer - Safety Detection Precision

Who we are

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact – helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world’s physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win – together.

• Build and evolve the core systems that review safety detections and determine which events are surfaced to customers
• Improve detection precision by developing intelligent approaches to identifying ambiguous cases, deflecting low-value reviews, and automating triage where confidence is high
• Work at the intersection of backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve both customer-facing product quality and internal review efficiency
• Partner closely with product, design, AI and ML infra to turn real-world review outcomes into better model feedback loops and higher-quality safety detections over time
• Own complex projects end-to-end, from shaping the approach and technical design through rollout, measurement, and iteration in production
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering workflows pragmatically to accelerate prototyping, implementation, debugging, and iteration while maintaining strong engineering judgment, reliability, and code quality
• Raise the bar for quality, operability, and engineering clarity across a critical part of Samsara’s Safety platform

• 4+ years of software development experience, primarily in backend or distributed systems
• Experience on a product engineering team shipping systems that solve real customer problems
• Demonstrable focus on customer experience, with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer value
• AI-first engineer who consistently uses modern AI coding and reasoning tools to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate delivery, and raise the quality of codebases, while applying strong judgment to validate outputs and maintain a high bar for correctness, maintainability, and reliability
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production systems in at least one modern programming language
• Experience designing and building large-scale, high-throughput systems
• Experience operating in a data led and data backed environment. Strong cross-team and cross-functional communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions clearly and constructively

• Deep experience developing AI-native engineering workflows…