Engineering Manager

Samsara

. Own the execution pipeline for new hardware programs with external design, manufacturing, and silicon partners, including milestone planning, validation readiness, quality gates, partner escalations, and delivery risks.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $154,700 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the execution pipeline for new hardware programs with external design, manufacturing, and silicon partners, including milestone planning, validation readiness, quality gates, partner escalations, and delivery risks.
Manage and develop a team of firmware engineers working on platform firmware that enables Samsara's next-generation hardware products.
Drive coordination across firmware, hardware engineering, product, quality engineering, field engineering, and external partners to resolve hardware and firmware integration issues.
Build a predictable operating cadence for partner communication, technical triage, schedule tradeoffs, risk reporting, and leadership escalation.
Define and improve the long-term technical and execution strategy for partner-driven hardware programs, making each program more predictable, efficient, and scalable.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of relevant software, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent engineering experience.
3+ years of people management experience leading firmware, embedded, platform, hardware, or hardware-adjacent engineering teams.
Experience working with external technical partners such as JDMs, ODMs, contract manufacturers, silicon vendors, or hardware vendors.
Experience delivering new hardware, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent programs from prototype through production readiness.
Strong understanding of firmware development, hardware bring-up, validation, release quality, and cross-functional delivery.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to provide clear status, frame tradeoffs, and escalate risks with data.
Ability to work effectively with product, hardware, quality, field, manufacturing, and engineering leadership stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible, employee-led remote model
Professional development stipend
Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Equity opportunities in a high-growth public company
Performance-based bonus and variable pay

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Hard Skills & Tools

firmware developmentembedded systemshardware engineeringvalidationquality assuranceprogram managementrisk managementtechnical triageschedule managementexecution strategy

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipteam managementproblem-solvingcollaborationstakeholder managementstatus reportingtradeoff analysisescalationcoordination