Tech Lead Applied Scientist

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. It serves industries like agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.

This is the most senior individual contributor role on the Safety AI team, focused on taking models from research to production in safety-critical systems. The role involves architecting end-to-end computer vision pipelines for real-world safety detection, driving the technical roadmap for edge and cloud perception, partnering with hardware and firmware teams, working with petabyte-scale multimodal data, and mentoring senior scientists.

• Architect end-to-end computer vision pipelines for real-world safety detection (object detection, tracking, semantic segmentation, multi-camera fusion).
• Drive technical roadmap for edge and cloud perception, optimizing models for constrained hardware.
• Partner with hardware and firmware teams to co-design the full stack.
• Work with petabyte-scale multimodal data (video, sensor, telematics, diagnostics) to train and iterate on production models.
• Stay at the frontier of CV and perception research and translate into shipped product.
• Mentor and technically guide senior scientists and engineers.

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Vision, or related field.
• 10+ years as a scientist or ML engineer, with experience leading end-to-end AI systems in production.
• Deep expertise in computer vision (object detection, tracking, segmentation) for real-world environments.
• Experience with multimodal perception and sensor fusion (camera, lidar, radar, GPS/IMU).
• Experience with transformer-based architectures and vision-language models (VLMs/VLAs).
• Experience building and deploying real-time or edge ML systems optimized for low-latency inference.
• Demonstrated ability to drive systems from research through production deployment.

Annual base salary range: $200,200—$357,500 USD. Eligible for initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities.

Total rewards include base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, equity, professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and a flexible, employee-led remote model.

Apply via the provided link. Samsara is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations upon request.