About the role:

The team is responsible for embedded software across all Samsara’s products, which includes cameras, vehicle gateways, and site gateways. The candidate will be focused on platform firmware working closely with various product teams and vendors to make sure that the platform is abstracted for maintainability, testability and usability across multiple products while also meeting performance requirements.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will:

• Architect, develop, debug, and test common firmware modules written in C/C++ and Golang for Samsara’s cloud-connected hardware platform
• Lead the platform bringup for the hardware platforms and enable product teams with a common API to develop applications
• Enable the product teams to integrate SoC vendor SDKs across subsequent upgrades
• Design and develop common software services to meet functional and performance attributes of all products
• 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 professional industry experience in software development
• Experience with C/C++ or Golang is a plus
• Experience with developing and shipping production code
• Experience working on Linux based embedded multimedia systems on complex SOCs
• Experience working with SoC vendors, JDM partners and shipping high quality products
• Experience working on Linux drivers and collaborating with system engineers to debug complex system issues
• Bachelors or masters in computer science, engineering or similar

An ideal candidate also:

• Enjoys working on common software services across multiple product teams
• Has experience working on camera and video technology is a plus
• Thrives in an environment that requires rapid deployment and product iteration based on customer feedback
• Evaluates how decisions at each layer of the stack affect other layers for different products
• Builds production ready platforms with design for test mindset
• Builds and architects for the long term

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