Engineering Manager II - Platform Firmware

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations to harness IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations. We are looking for an Engineering Manager II to lead a Platform Firmware team focused on new hardware programs and partner execution. This team works at the intersection of firmware, hardware, quality engineering, product, field engineering, and external technical partners to bring new connected operations devices from early bring-up through production readiness.

In this role, you will own the execution pipeline for partner-driven hardware programs, including milestone planning, validation readiness, quality gates, escalation paths, and cross-functional delivery. You will lead a team of firmware engineers and build the operating cadence, relationships, and technical strategy needed to ship high-quality hardware programs at scale.

• Own the execution pipeline for new hardware programs with external design, manufacturing, and silicon partners.
• Manage and develop a team of firmware engineers working on platform firmware.
• Drive coordination across firmware, hardware engineering, product, quality engineering, field engineering, and external partners.
• Build a predictable operating cadence for partner communication, technical triage, schedule tradeoffs, risk reporting, and leadership escalation.
• Define and improve the long-term technical and execution strategy for partner-driven hardware programs.

• 8+ years of relevant software, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading firmware, embedded, platform, hardware, or hardware-adjacent engineering teams.
• Experience working with external technical partners such as JDMs, ODMs, contract manufacturers, silicon vendors, or hardware vendors.
• Experience delivering new hardware, firmware, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent programs from prototype through production readiness.
• Strong understanding of firmware development, hardware bring-up, validation, release quality, and cross-functional delivery.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with product, hardware, quality, field, manufacturing, and engineering leadership stakeholders.

• Experience with EVT, DVT, PVT, MP, or similar hardware development milestones.
• Experience managing firmware programs involving Linux, BSPs, device drivers, bootloaders, wireless modules, power management, or embedded platform software.
• Experience working with globally distributed design, manufacturing, or silicon partners.
• Experience improving team execution through AI-assisted engineering tools, automation, or developer productivity workflows.

Annual base salary range: $154,700—$260,000 USD. Eligible for initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities. Total rewards include performance-based bonus/variable pay, equity, professional development stipend, and comprehensive health plans.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US. Relocation assistance will not be provided. Apply via the provided link.