Samsara is hiring a
Remote Senior Firmware Embedded Software Engineer MCU
\nAbout the role:\n\nSamsaraโs 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. Through a unique integration of sensor data such as GPS, acceleration, temperature, video, and more, we enable our customers to gain greater insights into operations, identify and eliminate inefficiencies, and react to alerts all in near real-time.\n\nAs a senior/staff embedded software engineer at Samsara, you will develop software that runs on millions of devices, deployed by our industrial and enterprise customers. Youโll tackle challenges including evaluating and selecting hardware components, bringing up new hardware platforms and sensors, building systems to gather data and detect meaningful events, and structuring recorded data to allow efficient analysis across thousands of devices while providing deep insights into individual events.\n\nWe use C for our MCU based platforms, Golang for embedded applications on linux-based gateways and backend services, Google protocol buffers to structure data, and various AWS technologies to process and store data. Experience with these exact technologies is not required.\n\nClick here to learn about what we value at Samsara.\nIn this role, you will: \n\n\nParticipate in system architecture design and component selection: partner with electrical engineers in selecting components based on system and customer needs, prototyping for in-house and beta customer use.\n\nBring up new hardware platforms: configuring I/O, debugging interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN and ADC, testing connectivity, validating design and debugging system initialization.\n\nImplement peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders and device firmware update, core management layers (power manager, connectivity manager, etc).\n\nDesign protocols and implement efficient hardware management to optimize energy consumption of battery powered sensors and gateways.\n\nWork cross-functionally with different stakeholders across product, full-stack and quality teams to deliver reliable high quality embedded software.\n\nChampion, role model, and embed Samsaraโs cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.\n\n\n\n\nMinimum requirements for the role:\n\n\nSolid C programming skills\n\nAt least 5 years of experience working on MCU based systems.\n\nExperience developing, debugging, testing and shipping products\n\nHands-on debugging skills with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, RF and network simulators\n\nBe excited about sensors, connectivity protocols, distributed systems, and their application to solve real world problems\n\nThrive in an environment that requires rapid deployment and product iteration based on customer feedback while focusing on automated testing and code quality\n\nEvaluate how choices at each layer of the stack affect other layers and the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nAn ideal candidate also has:\n\n\nExperience working in bare metal and RTOS based systems such as Zephyr and/or FreeRTOS\n\nStrong working experience in one or more core technologies such as BLE, GPS, LTE Cat-M1 or CAN\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Developer, Travel, Sales, Digital Nomad, Senior, Excel, Legal, Backend, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Software, React, C, Golang and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n
$67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States