Job Description
The Engineering Manager II will lead a firmware team responsible for developing and delivering hardware programs, coordinating cross-functional efforts, and managing external partners to bring connected devices from prototype to production, impacting industries that rely on physical operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the execution pipeline for partner-driven hardware programs, including milestone planning, validation readiness, quality gates, escalation paths, and cross-functional delivery.
- Manage and develop a team of firmware engineers working on platform firmware for hardware products.
- Coordinate across firmware, hardware engineering, product, quality engineering, field engineering, and external partners to resolve hardware and firmware integration issues.
- Build a predictable operating cadence for partner communication, technical triage, schedule tradeoffs, risk reporting, and leadership escalation.
- Define and improve the long-term technical and execution strategy for hardware programs to enhance predictability, efficiency, and scalability.
Requirements
- 8 years of relevant software, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent engineering experience.
- 3 years of people management experience leading firmware, embedded, platform, hardware, or hardware-adjacent engineering teams.
- Experience working with external technical partners such as JDMs, ODMs, contract manufacturers, silicon vendors, or hardware vendors.
- Experience delivering new hardware, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent programs from prototype through production readiness.
- Strong understanding of firmware development, hardware bring-up, validation, release quality, and cross-functional delivery.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to provide clear status, frame tradeoffs, and escalate risks with data.
- Ability to work effectively with product, hardware, quality, field, manufacturing, and engineering leadership stakeholders.
- Experience with EVT, DVT, PVT, MP, or similar hardware development milestones.
- Experience managing firmware programs involving Linux, BSPs, device drivers, bootloaders, wireless modules, power management, or embedded platform software.
- Experience working with globally distributed design, manufacturing, or silicon partners.
- Experience balancing speed, quality, customer impact, and long-term platform reliability in hardware programs.
- Experience improving team execution through AI-assisted engineering tools, automation, or developer productivity workflows.
- Ability to own the execution pipeline for new hardware programs with external partners, including milestone planning, validation readiness, quality gates, partner escalations, and delivery risks.
- Ability to manage and develop a team of firmware engineers working on platform firmware that enables Samsara’s next-generation hardware products.
- Ability to build a predictable operating cadence for partner communication, technical triage, schedule tradeoffs, risk reporting, and leadership escalation.
- Ability to define and improve the long-term technical and execution strategy for partner-driven hardware programs, making each program more predictable, efficient, and scalable.
Benefits & Perks
Annual Base Salary ranging from 154,700 to 260,000 USD
Performance-based bonus variable pay
Equity with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities
Flexible, employee-led remote work model
Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Professional development stipend
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