Job brief: Firmware Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Samsara's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-07 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens samsara.com, the address Samsara's board gives for this job.
• The same title for the same place was listed 1 other time on this board in the last 90 days: several openings, or a re-posted job.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $113,645 to $191,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote - Austin; Remote - Seattle; San Francisco, CA, United States · San Francisco - SF9
• Posted: 2026-11-06

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Mid level. The posting asks for 2+ years of experience.

Must have

• Experience with these exact technologies is not required.
• We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growt…
• 2+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems , on products that shipped to real customers and then had to survive in the field.
• Cellular IoT - LTE-M or NB-IoT modem integration, power state management, and the certification gauntlet (FCC, PTCRB, carrier approval).

Conditions

• Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Thi…
• At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
• Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety,…
• Partner with product, full-stack, mobile and quality engineers so the data your firmware produces arrives intact and useful as it lands in the hands of dispatchers, fleet managers…

Main duties

• Shape the hardware, not just the code that runs on it. Sit in reviews with our electrical engineers and help choose the right SoC, amount of flash/RAM, and c…
• Be the first person to make a new board do anything at all. Bring up new platforms and prototypes from virgin silicon: configure I/O, get SPI, I2C, UART, BLE…
• Build the layers everything else depends on. Peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, as well as the core management layers like powe…
• Chase every microamp. Design protocols and hardware management for battery-powered sensors and gateways where the gap between good firmware and great firmwar…
• Work with the people who ship the whole product. Partner with product, full-stack, mobile and quality engineers so the data your firmware produces arrives in…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $197k a year (632 listings, 42 employers). This listing is 23% lower.
• Across Samsara's 233 open listings, 33% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Samsara hires

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