[Hiring] Senior AI Security Research Engineer @Samsara

Role Description

Samsara is building a brand-new role at the intersection of security engineering and applied AI. This person will be the most AI-forward technologist on our Application Security team — using frontier AI models to both strengthen our security posture and stress-test it. You'll spend one day using AI to red-team our cloud environment and the next validating firmware vulnerabilities on our hardware, with the goal to secure our applications for AI Adversaries. This is a highly visible, org-wide role reporting into a newly formed function, with a clear path to shape Samsara's AI security strategy for years to come.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, offensive security, or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated application fix impact and influence across a large part of an organization.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to real security workflows (not just using AI as an end user) — e.g., building with APIs, agents, or automation to support security use cases.
• Experience conducting technical security assessments (e.g. offensive security or validation exercises) across both software and hardware/firmware environments.
• Experience in creating solutions for secure code with engineers using languages such as GoLang.
• Experience developing AI and agentic solutions using Github, and developing within AWS cloud.

Requirements

• Experience with AI-specific attack techniques (prompt injection, jailbreaks, model/agent abuse) for vulnerability management and application security.
• Experience building or validating security controls for agentic AI, RAG systems, or LLM-integrated platforms.
• A track record of driving org-wide security strategy or presenting technical findings to senior/executive stakeholders.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., OSCP, GIAC, CISSP) or AWS certifications.

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary: $157,675 — $238,500 USD.
• Performance-based bonus/variable pay.
• Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company.
• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.