Electrical Engineering Co-Op
Electrical Engineering Co-Op
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About Samsara Hardware Engineering:
Samsaras hardware systems bridge the gap between the rapidly evolving world of physical operations and our cloud platform that enables our customers to increase the safety efficiency and sustainability of their operations which power the global economy. The hardware footprint is big we build ultralow power sensors ruggedized asset trackers vehicle ADAS systems with AI/ML telematics systems and rackmount video inspection with AI/Ml with more to come in the future. We leverage myriad technologies including lowpower MCUs big SoCs DSPs LTE GPS BLE WiFi imaging sensors ML/AI/CV accelerometers and more. Our challenges span the gamut from eeking out singledigit microamps to thermals to desense to cost reduction to antenna design to enclosure design that survives extreme environments.
About the role:
Were looking for an Electrical Engineer coop to join our team. In the daytoday you will be responsible for working on the EE aspects of the design of products based on thorough feasibility design and cost studies encompassing key component selection thermals antenna etc. We have a tremendous amount of telemetry and access to customers that help guide our design process. You will work directly with our customers to ensure we lead the industry with our product design. We run a collaborative process working closely with Product Management PD FW EPM NPI and Hardware leadership to make excellent tradeoffs and choices. Throughout this process youll share your expertise with other engineers. The US and Taiwan EE teams are supported by the Supply Chain team laboratories JDM design resources and a growing supply base. You will work closely with these internal and external partners to achieve our objectives.
This role will be held at our San Francisco office. Coops are required to be in the office Tuesdays to Thursdays and remote work days on Mondays and Fridays. As part of the coop program we do provide relocation and housing support for the duration of the coop. To be eligible for this role you must be attending a university that supports fulltime work as part of a 6month coop OR attend a university that will allow you to take 2 quarters or one semester off to work a coop. Please do not apply if you are unable to commit to the full duration of this coop. We are looking for this coop to join us from June December 2025. At this time we are not accepting firstyear coop students. Ideally this student is in their junior year of school as an undergraduate student and has previous internship and/or coop experience.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a highcalibre team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Contribute to shipping successful product lines.
- Conduct research: Stay informed of the latest silicon possibilities from all the top semiconductor companies.
- Know the system: Evaluate system feature tradeoffs and create the system specifications for development with product management and crossfunctional engineering teams.
- Prototype: Assemble EVKs board hacks or quickturn fabrication for evaluating concepts or jumpstarting firmware development.
- Design: Take a concept from block diagram to schematics and through layout; either on your own or navigate the process with JDM resources.
- Test: Create a validation plan for each phase of the product development through PVT and characterize the full electrical system for function power and usecases.
- Failure analysis: Find the root cause of design inefficiencies and field failures and improve design to meet performance and quality requirements.
- Manage: We bolster our internal development team with top JDM companies to design validate certify and manufacture quality products certification labs and other external consultants.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras 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.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Bachelors degree in progress in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field. We are looking for second or thirdtime coop or Master level coop students. We will not be considering firsttime coops. Your target graduation timeline is MayJune 2026.
- You must be able to commit to a minimum of 6 months of fulltime coop employment and have a university that supports the coop experience.
- Prior intern or coop experience working on highvolume hardware programs.
- Solid fundamentals in digital analog and mixedsignal circuits.
- Schematic and layout knowledge in Altium or Cadence or CAD/Allegro.
- Ability to navigate tradeoffs between design manufacturability schedule and cost.
- Handson experience with test instruments such as oscilloscopes signal generators spectrum analyzers.
- Knowledge of cameras sensors WiFi LTE Bluetooth GPS antennas and batteries.
- Strong ability to collaborate with crossfunctional teams and drive independent work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
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