Staff Firmware Engineer
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Staff Firmware Engineer building software for Samsara’s IoT sensors, gateways, and dashcams. Bringing up hardware and delivering secure, power-efficient firmware for physical operations.
Responsibilities:
- Develop software running on millions of devices deployed by industrial and enterprise customers
- Evaluate and select hardware components
- Bring up new hardware platforms, boards, prototypes, and sensors
- Build systems to gather data and detect meaningful events
- Structure recorded data for efficient analysis across thousands of devices
- Shape hardware decisions, including SoC, flash/RAM, and sensor selection
- Configure I/O and establish SPI, I2C, UART, and BLE communications
- Debug system initialization and validate hardware designs
- Own peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power management, and connectivity layers
- Design protocols and hardware management for battery-powered sensors and gateways
- Partner with product, full-stack, mobile, and quality engineers
- Produce firmware data that is intact and useful to dispatchers, fleet managers, and technicians
- Lead designs, reviews, and engineering practices as a Staff-level force multiplier
- Drive consensus across teams and deliver iteratively at global scale
Requirements:
- 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems shipped to real customers
- Fluency in C
- Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience, such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS
- Experience making scheduling, memory, and timing decisions
- Experience bringing up new boards and unproven hardware
- Fluency in SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC
- Ability to debug hardware-software interfaces
- Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers
- Staff-level experience leading work across hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality from concept to shipped product
- Ability to drive consensus across teams
- Ability to write actionable design documents, review comments, and post-mortems
- Ability to iterate quickly with automated testing and maintainable code
- Experience using AI in daily workflow
- BLE, cellular IoT, embedded security, OTA/device firmware updates, Embedded Linux, CAN/J1939, Python, Bash, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and electronics manufacturing experience are differentiators
Benefits:
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity for eligible roles
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
- Flexible working model
- Offices available for employees who prefer to work in-person
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