Samsara

Senior Software Engineer – Optimization Engineering

Samsara

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $150,238 - $252,500 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformIoTJava

About the role

  • Design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge heuristics and metaheuristics to solve complex NP-Hard optimization problems in production systems
  • Focus on route optimization, vehicle routing problems (VRP), and the traveling salesman problem (TSP), delivering high-impact solutions for our customers
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to extract and formalize requirements, transforming business needs into precise mathematical formulations and technical specifications
  • Write high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code in a corporate environment using languages such as Go, Java or C++
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of large-scale, high-performance backend systems
  • Act as a force multiplier within the team, contributing to technical design discussions and mentoring other engineers
  • Bring a customer-focused mindset to all development, ensuring that technical solutions directly translate into better customer outcomes
  • Contribute to the Routing Platform that unifies route planning, dispatch, navigation, and real-time telematics for deeper insights and proactive decision-making

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience and 8+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
  • Experience designing and implementing heuristics and metaheuristics for solving NP-Hard problems in production systems
  • Proficiency in code development in a corporate environment with languages such as Go, Java or C++
  • Demonstrated ability to extract formal requirements (e.g., a mathematical formulation) from stakeholder requirements
  • Strong understanding of algorithm design, data structures, and computational complexity
  • Experience with designing and architecting large, high-scale backend systems
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing principles
  • Ability to work from our SF office a few days a month and be based within 30 miles of our SF Bay area office in the US
  • (Ideal) Masters or PhD with 5+ years of experience
  • (Bonus) Proven experience specifically with Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) related challenges
  • (Bonus) Experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • (Desired) Strong product mindset and bias towards delivering incremental value to customers