Lead Machine Learning Engineer - ML Infrastructure
Samsara- Base salary
- $200k–$358k Published base salary range
- Location
- Remote - US Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Lead / Manager
About the job
About the Role
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. We are hiring a Lead Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for ML infrastructure across Samsara's Safety AI organization. This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy and own end-to-end delivery of Samsara's ML platform (training, experimentation, batch/online inference, edge).
- Drive design, launch, and iteration of Safety AI features (CV models, EcoDriving insights, LLM-based reporting).
- Design and operate scalable online and batch inference systems (Ray, Spark), including deployment patterns, observability, SLOs, and unified training-to-production workflows.
- Partner with firmware and edge teams to package, validate, and deploy models to Samsara devices.
- Own reliability, observability, and security for ML systems across cloud and edge.
- Be the technical authority for ML infrastructure architecture across Safety AI, mentoring senior engineers and applied scientists.
- Contribute to and represent Samsara in open source communities (Ray, Spark, RayDP).
Qualifications
- 10+ years in machine learning engineering with tech lead ownership of at least two major ML platform domains.
- Proven record of shipping ML-powered features end-to-end with measurable impact.
- Hands-on Ray and Kubernetes expertise in production; Spark experience strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of ML fundamentals: evaluation methodology, dataset design, ablation, drift.
- Demonstrated cross-org technical leadership around platform decisions.
- Experience navigating science-engineering tension.
Compensation
Annual base salary range: $200,200—$357,500 USD. Eligible for initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities.
Benefits
Total rewards include performance-based bonus/variable pay, equity, professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and a flexible, employee-led remote model.
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