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Samsara

Staff/Senior Firmware Engineer

Samsara

. Develop software running on millions of devices for industrial and enterprise customers .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $162,400 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudFlashIoTRTOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Develop software running on millions of devices for industrial and enterprise customers
  • Evaluate and select hardware components, including SoCs, flash/RAM, and sensors
  • Bring up new hardware platforms and sensors from virgin silicon
  • Configure I/O and establish SPI, I2C, UART, and BLE communication
  • Debug system initialization and validate hardware designs
  • Develop peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power management, and connectivity layers
  • Design protocols and hardware management for battery-powered sensors and gateways to maximize device life
  • Build systems to collect data and detect meaningful events
  • Structure recorded data for efficient analysis across thousands of devices
  • Partner with electrical, product, full-stack, mobile, quality, and other engineering teams
  • Ensure firmware data reaches dispatchers, fleet managers, and technicians intact and useful
  • Lead technical designs, rigorous reviews, mentorship, engineering practices, and cross-functional consensus
  • Connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
  • Deliver high-quality solutions iteratively

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems
  • Experience leading firmware development for several new products end to end, from concept through architecture, implementation, validation, and launch
  • Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience, such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS
  • Experience bringing up new boards and debugging hardware/software issues
  • Fluency in SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC interfaces
  • Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers
  • Senior-level experience spanning hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality from concept to shipped product
  • Ability to trace driver-level decisions to customer outcomes and make cross-layer trade-offs
  • Fluency in C, including compiler behavior, linker maps, stack traces, and corrupted heap analysis
  • Ability to write actionable design documents, review comments, and post-mortems
  • Experience iterating quickly with customer feedback while maintaining automated testing and maintainable code
  • Experience using AI in daily workflow
  • Experience with BLE at depth, including PHY-level understanding, is a plus
  • Cellular IoT experience with LTE-M or NB-IoT, power state management, and FCC, PTCRB, or carrier approval is a plus
  • Embedded security experience including secure boot, firmware signing, cryptography, and key management is a plus
  • OTA/device firmware updates at fleet scale, including A/B partitions and rollback, is a plus
  • Factory-floor experience with electronics mass production, quality assurance, and production issue resolution is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Above market-rate salary
  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
  • Ongoing equity refresh opportunities tied to performance
  • Performance-based bonus/variable pay
  • Employee-led remote and flexible working
  • Team-based incentive schemes
  • Health benefits
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Parental leave plans
  • Professional development stipend
  • Samsara for Good fund
  • Flexible working model
  • Remote work support where aligned with operational requirements
  • Office access for employees who prefer to work in-person