Samsara
Staff or Senior Firmware Engineer
$162K–$290K
Remote - SF Bay Area · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; has led firmware development for several new products end to end.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers are contingent on the ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
About the job
Develop and lead firmware for connected IoT devices, from hardware bring-up and low-level systems through validation and product launch.
What you'll do
- Select and validate hardware components, bring up new boards and sensors, and develop drivers, bootloaders, updates, and power and connectivity management.
- Build reliable, power-efficient firmware that gathers and structures device data for analysis across deployed fleets.
- Lead cross-functional product work and mentor engineers through technical designs, reviews, and delivery.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems.
- Led firmware development for several new products from concept through launch, with technical leadership across hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality.
- Substantial bare-metal and RTOS experience; experience with Zephyr, FreeRTOS, or equivalent.
- Fluency in C and low-level interfaces including SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC; experience bringing up boards and debugging hardware/software.
Nice to have
- In-depth BLE; Cellular IoT, including LTE-M or NB-IoT; embedded security; OTA/device firmware updates at fleet scale; or electronics mass-production experience.
- Experience using AI as part of everyday workflow.
Pay
$162,400 — $290,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C, Golang, Google protocol buffers, AWS, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, SPI, I2C
AI focus
Use AI in everyday workflow to multiply output without compromising quality.
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