People Analytics AI Engineer

About the Role Samsara’s People team seeks a technically skilled AI engineer to design, build, and operate the tools and systems that power our HR workflows and AI initiatives. The role sits within the People team as a technical bridge between HR professionals, people operations, program managers, and the engineers who build Samsara; you’ll design and deploy secure, scalable applications, automations, and AI workflows that transform manual HR work into production-grade solutions. If you’re passionate about applying technology and AI to solve complex challenges and scale a modern people function, this is a unique opportunity to make a direct, measurable impact across People and the broader business. What You'll Do

• Partner with People team members and cross-functional stakeholders (including IT and others) to design, build, and maintain HR tech solutions that enhance how we deliver people programs, streamline HR workflows, improve data quality, and drive measurable productivity gains.
• Act as a key voice in roadmap planning, experimentation frameworks, and modeling strategy discussions.
• Identify gaps in data, tools, and processes - and lead initiatives to close them.
• Develop and deploy AI-powered tools and automations that transform core HR processes, such as employee self-service and HR intake, onboarding and offboarding, knowledge retrieval, workforce and headcount planning, performance and talent management, total rewards analysis, and document drafting, analysis, and translation.
• Integrate people systems with core enterprise platforms (e.g., Workday, Google Suite, Slack, Salesforce, Greenhouse) to ensure seamless data flow, scalability, and reliability.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, staying current on advancements in AI, automation, and HR technology - and proactively identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
• Enable and support end users - both People team members and employees across the business - through documentation, training, technical support, and troubleshooting to ensure adoption and smooth operation of all HR tech systems.
• 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 we scale globally and across new offices. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience with building and scaling production-grade enterprise applications and integrations, with strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to independently design and deliver solutions with little or no technical guidance.
• Hands-on experience with large language model (LLM) applications, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation.
• This role is open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.