Software Engineer Ii, AI Platform

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · CA · Remote · Revenue Operations

Software Engineer II, AI Platform role focused on building scalable, reliable backend systems and platform capabilities for GenAI-powered applications. The role involves implementing multi-step AI workflows, model execution, and integrations, working closely with AI engineers and cross-functional teams to evolve foundations for future AI use cases. Requires hands-on experience with GenAI systems, prompt orchestration, tool execution, and backend development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and evolve core AI platform capabilities that enable teams to develop, run, and scale GenAI-powered applications across Samsara.
  2. Design and implement shared execution patterns, APIs, and services that support multi-step AI workflows and system integrations.
  3. Develop reliable, extensible backend systems that power AI-driven experiences used across the sales funnel and beyond.
  4. Work hands-on across the stack, from backend services and execution infrastructure to integration with AI models and tooling.
  5. Collaborate closely with AI engineers, data scientists, product partners, and sales operators to turn emerging AI use cases into production-ready platform capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • building and operating large-scale, production backend or platform systems
  • Hands-on experience building and operating GenAI-powered systems in production
  • integration with large language models (LLMs) or similar AI services
  • Experience implementing GenAI workflows such as prompt orchestration, tool execution, routing, or multi-step reasoning pipelines
  • High proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar)
  • building reliable services with clear input/output schemas
  • Expert in Python
  • substantial knowledge on different GenAI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI SDK, MCP, etc.)
  • Familiarity with GenAI quality and safety considerations, such as validation of model outputs, structured responses, retries/fallbacks, and basic evaluation or monitoring approaches
  • Strong product sense
  • ability to work in fast-paced, cross-functional environments

Nice to have

  • Experience working on AI products in a sales, go-to-market, or revenue operations context
  • Familiarity with enterprise tools like Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, or similar CRM/enablement platforms
  • Experience integrating with vector databases, retrieval systems, or streaming voice/chat pipelines
  • A track record of leading major techni

What the JD emphasized

  • building and operating large-scale, production backend or platform systems
  • Hands-on experience building and operating GenAI-powered systems in production
  • Experience implementing GenAI workflows such as prompt orchestration, tool execution, routing, or multi-step reasoning pipelines

Other signals

  • building scalable, reliable systems that enable multi-step AI workflows
  • platform capabilities that power Samsara’s next generation of AI-driven experiences
  • turning emerging AI capabilities into a durable, production-grade platform