Description
Samsara is looking for a Tech Lead Applied Scientist to join their Safety AI team. The role involves taking models from research to production in safety-critical systems, focusing on real-time perception systems that run across millions of edge devices in the physical world and the cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Architect end-to-end computer vision pipelines for real-world safety detection
- Drive the technical roadmap for edge and cloud perception
- Partner with hardware and firmware teams to co-design the full stack
- Work with petabyte-scale multimodal data to train and iterate on production models
- Stay at the frontier of CV and perception research and translate what matters into shipped product
- Mentor and technically guide senior scientists and engineers across the team
Requirements:
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Vision, or a related quantitative field
- 10+ years as a scientist or ML engineer, with experience leading end-to-end AI systems in production
- Deep expertise in computer vision for real-world environments
- Experience with multimodal perception and sensor fusion
- Experience with transformer-based architectures and vision-language models
- Experience building and deploying real-time or edge ML systems optimized for low-latency inference
Benefits:
- Flexible working model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Equity (for eligible roles)
Salary: $200,200 - $357,500 USD per year