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Senior AI Data & Analytics Engineer II

Samsara· Marketing Systems & Intelligence
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Hybrid (Remote/SF Bay Area)$137.4k - $231kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Data & Analytics Engineer II on Samsara’s Marketing Data and Analytics (MDA) Engineering team, focusing on building the data foundation powering AI and self-serve analytics at scale. Responsibilities include architecting Databricks pipelines, Gold Layer tables, semantic models, AI-enabled data products and agents, and leading cross-team data initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Partner on defining the strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for MDA's data and AI foundation.
  • Architect and own Samsara's marketing data infrastructure: ETL/ELT pipelines, Databricks Gold Layer tables, and core data models for segmentation, targeting, automation, and analytics.
  • Design the semantic layers, data dictionaries, and structured documentation for self-serve BI and conversational analytics.
  • Translate ambiguous business questions from Marketing, Sales, and R&D into clear requirements and scalable solutions, autonomously.
  • Lead complex, cross-team initiatives end to end: stand up new data pipelines and integrations, manage risk, and own data quality.
  • Serve as the senior technical lead, improve engineering quality, mentor engineers/analysts.
  • Drive strategic use of AI to build AI-enabled data products and agents, with reliable pipelines and evaluation practices.
  • Identify and automate manual workflows with AI across Marketing and GTM teams.
  • Ship high-quality Python and SQL, overseeing AI-generated outputs before production.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles and scale the organization.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or AI engineering with hands-on data engineering.
  • Expert-level Python and SQL with strong data modeling and DBT experience.
  • Deep experience with data warehouse and lakehouse architectures, ETL/ELT, and modern data stack; hands-on Databricks (or Snowflake/BigQuery).
  • Experience building semantic layers and structured documentation optimized for AI ingestion and agentic workflows.
  • Experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and ownership of AI-generated output.
  • Experience building, shipping, evaluating, and monitoring LLM or agent systems in production.
  • Track record leading complex, cross-team data initiatives with stakeholder requirements gathering.
  • Experience supporting Marketing, Sales, or Product teams.

Skills

Required:PythonSQLDBTDatabricksData warehousing / lakehouseSemantic layersAI/LLM systems in productionAgentic coding tools

Benefits

  • Total rewards including base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles).
  • Remote-friendly with flexible working model and health/parental leave plans.
  • Professional development stipend and other benefits.
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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