Remote Staff Applied Scientist

Summary

Join Samsara's AI team as a Staff Applied Scientist and work on end-to-end AI solutions for customers, leveraging petabyte-scale data to solve critical problems in physical operations. This role can be office-based or fully remote and is open to candidates based in the US and Canada.

Requirements

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or other quantitative field (e.g., Applied Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Physics)
• 5+ years experience as a Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer
• Proficiency in self-serving with data for experiments and model training at scale
• Proficient with Spark, Ray, or a similar framework
• Coding in python or similar
• Strong functional knowledge of the iterative machine learning product development process
• Experienced in developing and shipping production code
• Ability to distill informal or ambiguous customer and business requirements into crisp problem definitions
• Proven ability to communicate verbally and in writing to technical peers and leadership teams with various levels of technical knowledge
• Experience coaching and mentoring scientists

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of critical AI product initiatives
• Develop both tactical AI solutions as well as more strategic and longer term research
• Work with petabyte-scale data from customer operations including text, transactions, diagnostics, sensor, camera, and location data
• Partner across business units to explore and prototype new AI experiences
• Stay connected to industry and academic research and adopt novel technology that suits Samsara’s needs
• 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

• PhD in Computer Science or other quantitative field
• An established record of successful high-impact deliveries in AI
• Experience building and applying ML tools and techniques to accelerate development

Benefits

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