Samsara
Senior AI Data & Analytics Engineer II
$137K–$231K
Remote - Chicago +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Remote - Chicago
Remote - SF Bay Area - Experience
- 8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or AI engineering, including deep hands-on data engineering experience.
About the job
Build and lead the marketing data and AI foundation, delivering reliable data pipelines, models, semantic layers, AI-enabled products, and automation for self-serve analytics and business teams.
What you'll do
- Set the data and AI roadmap and architect marketing data infrastructure, pipelines, models, and semantic layers.
- Lead cross-functional data initiatives, ensuring reliability and data quality while mentoring engineers and analysts.
- Build and productionize AI-enabled data products and agents, automate workflows, and review AI-generated code.
What they ask for
- Expert-level Python and SQL, with hands-on data modeling and DBT experience.
- Deep experience with warehouse and lakehouse architectures, ETL/ELT, and Databricks or similar, such as Snowflake or BigQuery.
- Experience building semantic layers and documentation for AI ingestion and agentic workflows, and shipping, evaluating, and monitoring production LLM or agent systems.
- Track record leading complex cross-team data initiatives, gathering requirements independently, and supporting Marketing, Sales, or Product teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks and building AI Agents within its ecosystem.
- Experience with sales and marketing dashboards, go-to-market systems, interactive applications, or data science and machine learning.
Pay
$137,445 — $231,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, DBT, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Claude Code, Cursor
AI focus
Build and evaluate production LLM and agent systems, AI-enabled data products and agents, retrieval pipelines and integrations; automate Marketing and GTM workflows and use agentic coding tools with careful verification.
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