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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Samsara's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 4% of Samsara's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Samsara
- high 260 stale, 7 reposted of 260 open
- Hiring momentum
- 433 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Samsara's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Samsara.
About this role
As a Tech Lead Applied Scientist at Samsara, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of safety AI initiatives, focusing on real-time perception systems that operate on millions of edge devices. Your role will involve architecting computer vision pipelines, optimizing models for deployment on constrained hardware, and working with large-scale multimodal data. You will also mentor team members and translate complex problems into actionable engineering challenges.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Samsara as an employer.
What you need
- 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 (e.g., object detection, tracking, segmentation) for real-world environments
- Experience with multimodal perception and sensor fusion (e.g., 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
Nice to have
- Experience applying perception to real-world systems such as driver assistance, fleet safety, or operations automation
- Publications or patents at top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ICRA, NeurIPS)
What you get
- Annual base salary range of $200,200 — $357,500 USD
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the technology stack beyond modern vision models and large-scale training pipelines
- Role involves significant responsibility as the most senior individual contributor on the Safety AI team
- Position is remote but may require proximity to an office for certain collaborative tasks
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Listed by Samsara on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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