People Analytics AI Engineer
Job Summary
Samsara is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the development and maintenance of tools and systems powering HR workflows and AI initiatives. This role acts as a technical bridge, designing secure, scalable applications and AI workflows to transform manual HR processes into efficient, production-grade solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate enterprise platforms and implement emerging AI technologies to support a modern people function.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable HR tech and AI workflow solutions.
- Develop AI-powered tools for HR process automation.
- Integrate core enterprise platforms for seamless data flow.
- Lead roadmap planning and process improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical support and training for HR systems.
Required Skills
- 8+ years software engineering experience
- Python & SQL/NoSQL proficiency
- LLM applications & Prompt Engineering
- Enterprise platform integration
- Low-code/No-code automation
Job Details
In this role, you will:
- Partner with People team members and cross-functional stakeholders to design, build, and maintain HR tech solutions that enhance people programs, streamline workflows, improve data quality, and drive productivity.
- 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 transforming core HR processes, including employee self-service, onboarding/offboarding, knowledge retrieval, workforce planning, and talent management.
- 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.
- Enable and support end users through documentation, training, technical support, and troubleshooting.
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience with building and scaling production-grade enterprise applications and integrations.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to independently design and deliver solutions.
- Hands-on experience with large language model (LLM) applications, including prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL/NoSQL databases, and low-code/no-code automation platforms.
- Experience with enterprise platforms, AWS, and data warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.