# Staff Firmware Engineer at Samsara

- Company: Samsara
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.samsara.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $162K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://www.samsara.com/company/careers/roles/8081545?gh_jid=8081545&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/samsara-staff-firmware-engineer/

## About the role

The Safety Firmware Team builds the next generation of intelligent video and AI-driven safety solutions, bringing high-performance camera systems and real-time edge computing into Samsara's fleet and industrial products. We deliver low-latency, high-quality video processing, voice powered AI Agents and advanced computer vision models at the edge, and we ship them as complete products that run from the device to the cloud. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying software, with deep expertise in embedded systems and firmware, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or architecture role
- Deep expertise in at least one embedded domain (for example multimedia, connectivity, drivers and kernel, power, or real-time systems)
- Has shipped across the stack: firmware, Go backend services, and web or mobile surfaces, not just embedded
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Go, Python, or similar
- High agency and execution speed: owns outcomes end-to-end, from a vague customer problem to a shipped, measured feature, without waiting for a spec or hand-off
- Already uses AI tools in day-to-day engineering work, builds with AI agents by default, can speak concretely to what share of their code is AI-generated, and raises the AI fluency of the team around them

Tags: Safety

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