Automation Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Samsara's Hardware Engineering team as an Automation Manager to lead a team of 5-10 automation engineers. You will provide technical leadership, collaborate cross-functionally, and develop an end-to-end automation strategy. This role requires 10+ years of experience building automated test frameworks and 5+ years of technical management experience. The position is remote, open to US candidates (excluding the San Francisco Bay Area and NYC Metro Area). Samsara offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, RSUs, and benefits. This is a key role impacting various industries and offering significant career growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 10 years experience building automated test frameworks and software tools for product development and validation
• 5+ years of hands-on execution-oriented technical management experience
• Understanding of framework architectures and tradeoffs between efficiency, scalability, and performance
• Software development experience
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a diverse fast paced customer-focused environment
• Experience creating and implementing hardware-in-the-loop simulation
• Technical understanding of communication protocols (TCP, UART, and wireless)
• Ability to design and develop hardware infrastructure for test applications. (e.g. power measurement tools, RF testing, etc.)
• Experience with test instrumentation including the use of power supplies, power analyzers, battery simulators, call boxes, and GPS simulators

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5-10 automation engineers working on multiple products in different stages of development
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship in automated systems development
• Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, and full-stack engineering to develop new tools and features and improve existing ones
• Lead the team to develop an end-to-end automation strategy to facilitate testing activities throughout Samsara product life cycles
• Work with leadership on the planning and execution of quarterly roadmaps that balance product and engineering priorities for maximum customer impact
• Build a healthy collaborative culture of accountability and continuous improvement while setting a high standard for execution quality
• Architect and design software frameworks to meet the reliability, scalability, and performance requirements of our products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining automation testing infrastructure from the ground up
• Experience testing devices with wireless protocols including BLE, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS
• Experience interfacing with embedded systems’ command line interfaces and AT commands
• Experience with cloud architecture and solutions
• Experience with data analysis tools/packages such as SQL, Pandas, databricks, etc

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Employee-led remote and flexible working
• Health benefits
• Samsara for Good charity fund