Samsara is hiring a
Automation Engineer Intern

Summary

Join Samsara's Hardware Quality team and help build a reliable hardware test framework, enabling teams to ship high-quality products and facilitating quality investigations. This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in the San Francisco office and 2 days working remotely.

Requirements

• Pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering graduating in 2026
• Python programming skills and Scripting skills
• Basic knowledge of Automated Test Frameworks and Software Tools

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain test infrastructure (SW, FW, and HW) to perform automated testing across Samsara’s current product portfolio and future designs
• Use your passion for testing software, firmware, and hardware to build a solution that stresses our embedded systems and helps identify failure points to improve the design, reliability and performance of our products
• Build the framework for testing our hardware/firmware platforms by working closely with the development team (FW, EE, ME, NPI) to define product test plans and ensure we have complete test coverage
• Test and verify features of the test infrastructure and manage the cross-organizational deployment and training
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of IoT hardware
• Understanding of Software Development
• Experience building Automated Test Frameworks and Software Tools for Product Development and Validation
• Experience creating and implementing test cases for wireless protocols
• Experience with test instrumentation, including the use of power supplies, power analyzers, battery simulators, call boxes, and GPS simulators
• Experience building and maintaining automation testing infrastructure
• Experience testing devices with wireless protocols including BLE, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS
• Experience with data analysis tools/packages such as SQL, Pandas, databricks, etc

Benefits

Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more