[Hiring] Lead AI Engineer @Samsara

Role Description

The future of Go-To-Market systems at Samsara is agentic, intelligent, and automated — and you will define what that future looks like. As Lead AI Architect, GTM Systems, you will set the technical vision for how Samsara's GTM technology organization builds AI-powered automation:

• Low-code platforms that empower operators.
• Custom agentic pipelines for complex GTM workflows.

This is a senior individual contributor role with organization-wide scope. You will architect, prototype, and establish patterns for the entire GTM engineering team.

You will partner with GTM engineering leadership, Sales Ops, BizTech, and C-level business stakeholders to translate strategic ambitions into architectural blueprints.

This is a remote role open to candidates in Canada.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping production-grade backend systems.
• Minimum of 3 years of Technical Lead experience.
• Demonstrated experience personally building and deploying AI agents used by real end users.
• Hands-on proficiency with LLM orchestration and agentic frameworks: LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing RAG systems.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals: Python and/or Node.js, FastAPI or equivalent.
• AWS experience: Bedrock, Lambda/serverless, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, or equivalent cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with non-technical business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Define and own the technical vision for AI-powered GTM systems.
• Create and publish reference architectures, design patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Lead architectural design for the highest-complexity GTM systems.
• Drive the evaluation, selection, and adoption of emerging AI tools, frameworks, and platforms.
• Serve as the organization's technical authority on LLM orchestration.
• Own the integration architecture strategy across the GTM systems landscape.
• Champion a scalable low-code-first strategy.
• Partner with VP-level GTM stakeholders to translate strategic business goals into architectural roadmaps.
• Conduct architecture reviews across the GTM engineering team.
• Produce internal thought leadership.

Benefits

• Annual base salary: $135,575 — $175,450 USD.
• Performance-based bonus/variable pay.
• Equity opportunities for eligible roles.
• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.