Samsara
Lead Design Engineer
Remote - US · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- You'll codify our principles, heuristics, and taste for high quality ai generation.
- This is a remote role open to candidates residing in the US.
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact - helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
Responsibilities
- Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
- Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
- Meet regularly with the designers and engineers who use the system, and bring their feedback alongside usage data into what you build next.
- Share the AI tools, workflows, and tactics that work with the wider design and engineering teams.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as the company scales globally across new offices.
- As a Lead Design Engineer at Samsara, you'll build the systems that power our product and scale our impact as a design team.
- You'll define the components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for both people and agents to build with.
- You'll work in design and in code, shipping highly interactive UI across web and mobile.
- If you're ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.
- Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering, building UX/UI for web and mobile applications.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
- You can explain, review, and debug the code they generate.
- Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.
Skills
- Samsara (NYSE:
Compensation
- The compensation range shown spans approved pay zones for this role.
Benefits
- Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company.
- Flexible Working
- Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.
Company info
- 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 Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing - and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
- 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, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you'll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
- 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 Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
- At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
- Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing - and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
- 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, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.
- As part of a recently public company, you'll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
- You're energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- Govern taste through structure, preventing ai slop from ever making it into our customers' hands.
- The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- Your work will shape how quickly teams can build, how reliably our products behave, and how confidently customers use them.
Equal opportunity
- Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities.
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