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Tech Lead Applied Scientist

Samsara· Safety AI
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Remote$200.2k - $357.5kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor leading the transition of safety-critical AI models from research to production. Focused on real-time edge and cloud perception for large-scale, multimodal data across connected devices in safety-focused applications.

Responsibilities

  • Architect end-to-end computer vision pipelines for real-world safety detection — object detection, tracking, semantic segmentation, multi-camera fusion, and beyond
  • Drive the technical roadmap for edge and cloud perception, including optimization and deployment of models on constrained hardware
  • Partner with hardware and firmware teams to co-design the full stack
  • Work with petabyte-scale multimodal data (video, sensor, telematics, diagnostics) to train and iterate production models
  • Stay at the frontier of CV and perception research and translate what matters into shipped product
  • Mentor and technically guide senior scientists and engineers across the team
  • Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by translating customer and business needs into engineering challenges
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles and scale globally across offices

Qualifications

  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Vision, or related quantitative field
  • 10+ years as a scientist or ML engineer with experience leading end-to-end AI systems in production
  • Deep expertise in computer vision (object detection, tracking, segmentation) for real-world environments
  • Experience with multimodal perception and sensor fusion (camera, lidar, radar, GPS/IMU)
  • Experience with transformer-based architectures and vision-language models (VLMs/VLAs)
  • Experience building and deploying real-time or edge ML systems optimized for low-latency inference
  • Demonstrated ability to drive systems from research through production deployment, including performance optimization and reliability at scale

Skills

Required:End-to-end computer vision pipelinesEdge and cloud perception optimizationHardware/firmware collaborationMultimodal data handlingTransformer-based architectures

Benefits

  • Flexible working model with remote option
  • Total rewards including base salary, bonus/variable pay, and equity for eligible roles
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
  • Collaborative, inclusive culture and career development opportunities
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Samsara

Samsara | The Connected Operations Platform

Samsara's connected operations platform helps 20,000+ operations improve safety, cut costs, and run smarter — built with operators.

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