Senior Staff Hardware Systems Engineer

Samsara

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Posted March 30, 2026

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Job Description

The role involves leading the end-to-end development and architecture of innovative hardware products, collaborating with customers and partners to create scalable, high-performance solutions, and driving the entire product lifecycle from concept to mass production.

Key Responsibilities

Drive the entire product lifecycle from concept to high-volume manufacturing, including architecture definition, validation, and certification.
Partner with customers and product management to understand challenges and innovate new hardware solutions.
Manage technical partnerships with manufacturing partners to ensure alignment, quality, and cost goals.
Own and develop the system architecture, including chipset selection, power management, RF performance, thermal design, and sensor integration.
Lead development processes from prototyping through validation, debugging, and field testing.

Requirements

5 years of experience as a key driver shipping high-volume scale hardware programs, demonstrating end-to-end ownership in partnership with JDM and ODM collaborators.
Experience in low power design, battery technology, and optimization.
Knowledge of wireless communications including LTE, 5G, BLE, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
Experience with embedded processing, AI ML acceleration, and imaging systems.
Deep, proven expertise in systems design across diverse use cases such as automotive, industrial, and outdoor environments, leveraging a mix of technologies.
A track record of navigating complex tradeoffs between performance, design elegance, manufacturability, and cost, resulting in successful, scaled products.
Expertise in product bring-up, system-level debug, and comprehensive validation including desense, power analysis, and performance testing.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to drive technical alignment across internal teams (PD, FW, EPM, NPI) and external partners (JDM, supply chain) globally.