Samsara

Staff ML Engineer

Samsara

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,200 - $357,500 per year

Job Level

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