Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. The Software Engineer II, AI Platform role involves developing core platform capabilities for AI-driven experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance sales operations through AI.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve core AI platform capabilities that enable teams to develop, run, and scale GenAI-powered applications across Samsara
- Design and implement shared execution patterns, APIs, and services that support multi-step AI workflows and system integrations
- Develop reliable, extensible backend systems that power AI-driven experiences used across the sales funnel and beyond
- Work hands-on across the stack, from backend services and execution infrastructure to integration with AI models and tooling
- Collaborate closely with AI engineers, data scientists, product partners, and sales operators to turn emerging AI use cases into production-ready platform capabilities
Skills
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (excluding internships/contract roles), with a strong emphasis on building and operating large-scale, production backend or platform systems
- Hands-on experience building and operating GenAI-powered systems in production, including integration with large language models (LLMs) or similar AI services
- Experience implementing GenAI workflows such as prompt orchestration, tool execution, routing, or multi-step reasoning pipelines
- High proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar) and experience building reliable services with clear input/output schemas
- Expert in Python and substantial knowledge on different GenAI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI SDK, MCP, etc.)
- Familiarity with GenAI quality and safety considerations, such as validation of model outputs, structured responses, retries/fallbacks, and basic evaluation or monitoring approaches
- Strong product sense and ability to work in fast-paced, cross-functional environments
- Located in and authorized to work in the United States (this is a fully remote role)
- Experience working on AI products in a sales, go-to-market, or revenue operations context
- Familiarity with enterprise tools like Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, or similar CRM/enablement platforms
- Experience integrating with vector databases, retrieval systems, or streaming voice/chat pipelines
- A track record of leading major technical initiatives or mentoring engineers in high-growth teams
- Exposure to infrastructure considerations such as cost optimization, model evaluation, observability, and latency management
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Flexible Working model that supports remote work
- All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable
- Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process upon request
Company Overview