Samsara · 1 day ago
Senior Staff Hardware Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$232K/yr - $290K/yr
5+ years expSamsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations improve their physical operations through IoT data. They are seeking a Senior Staff Hardware Systems Engineer to drive the entire product lifecycle for new, high-volume products, focusing on innovation and collaboration with customers and partners.
Business IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesInternet of ThingsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
End-to-End Product Realization: Take command of the system architecture for our next generation of products. This includes driving deep technical feasibility studies, defining the complete system specification, and seeing it through validation, certification, and production
Customer-Driven Innovation: Partner directly with Product Management and our customers to deeply understand their challenges. Use this unique, direct access to innovate new products and features that solve real-world problems, acting as a trusted technical partner from the earliest stages of design
Executive-Level Partnership Management: Drive and manage the technical partnership with Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM) partners. You will be the primary technical interface, ensuring alignment, quality, and aggressive execution to schedule and cost goals for high-volume, global deployment
System Architecture Mastery: Own the EE architecture, encompassing crucial elements like chipset/SoC selection, power budgets and optimization, RF/Antenna performance, thermals, sensor integration, and PCB design, ensuring robustness against extreme environmental conditions (automotive/industrial)
Technical Leadership: Spearhead the development process from initial prototyping, through rigorous validation and field testing, serving as the technical authority for system-level debug, desense mitigation, and bring-up
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience as a key driver shipping high-volume (scale) hardware programs, demonstrating end-to-end ownership in partnership with JDM and ODM collaborators
Low power design, battery technology, and optimization
Wireless communications (LTE/5G, BLE, Wi-Fi, GPS)
Embedded processing, AI/ML acceleration, and imaging systems
An unwavering track record of navigating complex tradeoffs between performance, design elegance, manufacturability, and cost, resulting in successful, scaled products
Expertise in product bring-up, system-level debug, and comprehensive validation (including desense, power analysis, and performance testing)
BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to drive technical alignment across internal (PD, FW, EPM, NPI) and external (JDM, supply chain) partners globally
Preferred
Experience with certifications and stringent testing requirements involved with industrial and automotive settings (e.g., ISO 16750, AEC-Q100)
Familiarity with advanced PCB design tools like Altium or Cadence Allegro
Experience in Design for Supply, Design for Reliability/Testing, and Design for Manufacture (DfX) principles
Benefits
Health benefits
Employee-led remote and flexible working
Company
Samsara
Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$930MKey Investors
General CatalystAndreessen Horowitz
2021-12-15IPO
2020-09-24Secondary Market
2020-05-20Series F· $700M
Leadership Team
Sanjit Biswas
CEO
Ben Calderon
CTO - Hardware & Operations
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