About the role:

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team is seeking an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer with a background in video quality tuning to join our growing team. As a Senior Engineer at Samsara, you will be leading increasingly complex video challenges involving customer use cases. You will work on video quality improvement initiatives alongside other highly-skilled Samsara engineers and deliver the solutions to our customers.

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team builds features utilizing Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking and AI Dash Cam hardware products to improve driver safety using AI and data analysis to create web and mobile workflows, provide real-time driver feedback, and streamline video-based coaching. Samsara customers utilize these features to create safety programs that improve fleet safety, reward safe driving practices, and exonerate drivers in no-fault accidents.

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.

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In this role, you will:

• Design and develop advanced video quality capabilities for Samsara camera devices.
• Design video subjective and objective quality metrics for the device before and after the release of firmwares.
• Optimize on-device video processing to improve efficiency and create opportunities for new capabilities of the product.
• Collaborate with Samsara’s Full-Stack teams to add new device capabilities that support critical web and mobile features.
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Embedded engineer with working experience in cameras and video codec technologies in mass produced devices.
• 5+ years of camera video quality tuning and measurement experience.
• Bay Area location preferred.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Expertise in camera vision systems, video quality improvement and camera quality measurement/monitoring techniques.
• Expertise with camera video quality improvement, measurement, monitoring tools/techniques by working closely with silicon vendors and camera OEM’s.
• Familiarity of camera video quality subjective and objective metrics.
• Programming familiarity in C/C++, Golang. SQL, etc.
• Familiarity with audio quality improvement and tuning is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality firmware for devices in a dynamic environment.