Senior Software Engineer – AI Safety Detection Precision

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Detection Precision team, you’ll shape end-to-end safety detection systems and triage workflows. You’ll improve detection accuracy, identify ambiguous cases, and automate triage to translate insights into real-world risk reduction. You will collaborate with product, design, and ML teams to close gaps between AI detections and coaching opportunities. This is a mission-driven role at scale, impacting customer trust and safety across Samsara’s safety products.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible, employee-led remote model
• professional development stipend
• comprehensive health and parental leave
• equity for eligible roles
• competitive total compensation with performance-based bonuses
• remote-friendly working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core systems that review safety detections and decide what is surfaced to customers
• Improve detection precision by smartly handling ambiguous cases and automating triage
• Work at the intersection of backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to enhance product quality and efficiency
• Partner with product, design, AI, and ML infra to feed real-world outcomes back into better model feedback loops
• Own complex projects end-to-end from design through production rollout, measurement, and iteration
• Apply AI-assisted engineering workflows pragmatically to accelerate prototyping, debugging, and iteration while maintaining quality
• Raise the bar for quality, operability, and engineering clarity in a critical part of Samsara’s Safety platform

Key requirements

• 4+ years of software development experience, primarily in backend or distributed systems
• Experience on a product engineering team shipping systems that solve real customer problems
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value and outcomes
• AI-first engineering approach using modern AI tooling to improve efficiency and code quality
• Strong programming fundamentals with production experience in at least one modern language
• Experience building large-scale, high-throughput systems
• Experience operating in a data-led environment and strong cross-functional communication skills

• cross-functional collaboration
• problem-solving
• customer-centric mindset
• backend/distributed systems
• Go or Java (or similar)
• designing large-scale pipelines

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