About the role:

Samsara’s Connected Equipment business is our newest and fastest growing product line generating over $100M in ARR. The Connected Equipment business helps customers improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability across a breadth of assets - from unpowered equipment to generators to trailers and more. We’re looking for a Director of Hardware Engineering to solve important and impactful problems for our customers by leading a team bringing new products to life.

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:

• Lead a Team: Develop and grow an excellent hardware design team with a passion for shipping terrific products to our customers.
• Be Entrepreneurial: Help identify meaningful problems to solve, influence and inform the business case for those products, then go execute and solve those problems.
• Be an Owner and Ship Products: Figure out the right product to build and the right way to build it. Create detailed hardware specifications, navigate the tradeoffs between performance, quality, time to market, cost, and ship.
• Develop Internal Relationships: Partner with Firmware, Software, Product Management, Supply Chain, Operations, and Go to Market teams to help solve our customers problems.
• Develop External Relationships: Partner with top semiconductor, JDM, certification and component companies to help design, validate, certify, and manufacture our products.
• Research: Stay abreast of the latest silicon/technology advancements and companies and evaluate. Be curious and think about how to leverage those trends for our customers.
• 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.
• Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Successful track record of 10+ years relevant experience in product development (commercial and consumer).
• Experience building a team of engineers and hands-on technical leadership.
• Solid embedded systems experience in low power devices, digital/analog circuit design, RF, and electromechanical design.
• Ability to travel up to 15% to Asia when necessary.

An ideal candidate also has:

• M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.