
Staff ML Engineer
Samsara
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,200 - $357,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, build, and operate Samsara’s end-to-end ML platform spanning training, experimentation, batch and online inference, and edge deployment
- Partner with product and applied ML teams to design, launch, and iterate ML-powered features driving measurable improvements in safety outcomes, feature reliability, and cost efficiency
- Lead throughput and cost estimation for new ML features, informing roadmap and go/no-go decisions
- Collaborate on experiment design and evaluation
- Evolve shared training and experimentation infrastructure and standardize experiment tracking, evaluation, and regression testing
- Design and operate scalable online and batch inference systems, including deployment patterns, observability, and SLOs
- Partner with firmware and edge teams to define workflows for packaging, validating, and deploying models
- Own the reliability, observability, and security posture of ML systems
- Provide Staff+/Senior-Staff-level technical leadership
- Drive strong developer experience through documentation and best practices
- Own or co-own end-to-end technical delivery for high-priority initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall experience in machine learning engineering or related fields
- Strong experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Ray and/or Spark
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), containers/Kubernetes, and production observability tooling
- Proven experience building or supporting ML platforms (training, experimentation, or inference) used by multiple teams
- Solid understanding of ML fundamentals including evaluation, experiment design, and model iteration in production environments.
Benefits
- Flexible working model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learning engineeringdistributed computing frameworksRaySparkcloud infrastructureAWScontainersKubernetesML platformsexperiment design
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationdocumentationbest practicescommunication