# Staff or Senior 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 - SF Bay Area
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://www.samsara.com/company/careers/roles/8074536?gh_jid=8074536
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/samsara-staff-or-senior-firmware-engineer/

## About the role

Samsara’s cloud-connected sensor platform collects observations about the world in near real-time. Samsara builds an extensive set of products, including battery-powered, wireless sensors, Linux-based IoT gateways, and Internet-connected dashcams. These devices are the building blocks Samsara uses to construct enterprise solutions for a wide range of verticals, including commercial fleet management and industrial monitoring.

## What they're looking for

- Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience - Zephyr, FreeRTOS, or equivalent. You have made scheduling, memory and timing decisions. Mutexes and semaphores are everyday tools for you
- You have brought up new boards. First power-on of unproven hardware, at the bench with the electrical engineer who drew it up, working out whether the bug is in your code, a library, the schematic, or the part itself
- Fluency in the low-level interfaces - SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ADC and the ability to debug the seam between hardware and software
- Real bench instincts. The usage of an oscilloscope, network analyzer, or RF spectrum analyzer, is how you form a hypothesis, not what you reach for after the print statements run out
- Senior-level scope. You have led work spanning hardware, firmware, cloud and quality from concept to shipped product. You have consistently driven consensus across teams
- Cross-layer judgment. You can trace how a decision at the driver level surfaces in a customer's experience three layers up, and you make that trade-off on purpose

Tags: STCE & Maintenance

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