Staff Electrical Engineer

About Samsara Hardware Engineering: 

Samsara's hardware systems bridge the gap for the rapidly evolving world of physical operations to a cloud platform that enables our customers to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. The hardware footprint is big – we build ultra low power sensors, ruggedized asset trackers, vehicle ADAS systems with AI/ML, telematics systems, rackmount video inspection with AI/Ml and maybe much more. We leverage myriad technologies including low power MCUs, beefy SoCs, DSPs, LTE, GPS, BLE, WiFi, imaging sensors, ML/AI/CV, accelerometers, and more. Our challenges span the gamut from seeking out single digit microamps to thermals to desense to cost reduction to antenna design to enclosure design that survives extreme environments.

About the role: 

We’re looking for a Staff Electrical Engineer to join our team. In the day to day, you will be responsible for guiding the architecture and design of multiple products after leading thorough feasibility, design, and cost studies encompassing chipset selection, thermals, antenna, etc. We have a tremendous amount of telemetry and access to customers that help guide our design process. You will crawl around equipment and industrial facilities working directly with our customers to ensure we lead the industry in our product design.

We run a collaborative process working closely with Product Management, PD, FW, EPM, and Hardware leadership to make excellent tradeoffs and decisions. Throughout this process, you’ll mentor other engineers. The US and Taiwan EE teams are supported by the Supply Chain team, laboratories, JDM design resources, and a growing supply base.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

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In this role, you will:

• Ship successful products
• Conduct research: Stay abreast of the latest silicon possibilities from all the top semiconductor companies
• Be an architect: Evaluate system feature tradeoffs and create the system specifications for development with product management and cross-functional engineering teams
• Lead the development process from prototyping through field validation according to performance, cost and schedule goals.
• Mentor, coach, and uplevel the team around you. You will be a role model.
• Manage: We bolster our internal development team with top JDM companies to design, validate, certify and manufacture quality products, certification labs and other external consultants.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 10+ years of experience shipping high volume hardware programs with ODM and JDM partners
• Systems design expertise including chipset/SoC selection, power, antennas/RF, batteries, PCB design, etc.
• Proven record navigating tradeoffs between design, manufacturability, schedule, and cost
• Worked on a wide variety of systems for different use cases including automotive, indoor and outdoor industrial areas leveraging low power, wireless (LTE, BLE, WiFi, GPS), embedded AI/ML, imaging, sensors, etc.
• Proven record of system bring up/debug including desense, validation, power, etc.
• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field
• Ability to travel up to 10% to Asia when necessary