Job Description
The Senior Hardware Systems Engineer at Samsara is responsible for designing and developing high-volume hardware products, including component selection, system architecture, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product deployment in various industrial and automotive environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and design of hardware products, including component selection, thermal management, and antenna design.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate system features, create specifications, and make tradeoff decisions.
- Lead the development process from prototyping through field validation, ensuring performance, cost, and schedule goals are met.
- Manage relationships with ODM and JDM partners to design, validate, and manufacture high-volume hardware products.
- Conduct research on silicon technologies and stay informed of the latest semiconductor advancements.
- Debug and validate system bring-up, including desense, power, and performance testing.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience shipping high volume hardware programs with ODM and JDM partners.
- Systems design expertise including chipset SoC selection, power optimization, antennas RF, batteries, sensors, and PCB design.
- Proven record navigating tradeoffs between design, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
- Experience working on a wide variety of systems for different use cases including automotive, indoor and outdoor industrial areas leveraging low power, wireless LTE, BLE, WiFi, GPS, embedded AI ML, imaging, sensors, etc.
- Proven record of system bring-up debug including desense, validation, power, etc.
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
- Ability to travel up to 25% when necessary.
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive independent work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience with certifications and testing involved with industrial and automotive settings such as ISO16750, AECQ100, etc.
- Schematic and layout design experience in Altium and Cadence Allegro.
- Systems design expertise with cameras and in extreme environmental conditions.
- Experience with design for supply, design for reliability testing, and design for manufacture.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive total compensation package including base salary, bonus, variable pay, and restricted stock unit awards (RSUs)
Hybrid work schedule requiring three days per week in the San Francisco office and two days remote
Relocation assistance provided
Health benefits (implied by full-time employee benefits)
Flexible working arrangements including remote and flexible working options
Opportunities for career development and advancement
Inclusive work environment with accommodations for persons with disabilities
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