Academy - Staff Design Engineer @ Samsara (Remote, Contract)

• 6+ years of product design experience designing UX/UI for web and mobile applications, with a track record of staff-level scope and impact • Exceptional visual design craft — demonstrated mastery of typography, layout, spacing, and detail — combined with strong interaction and motion design skills, and a proven ability to set craft standards others follow • Strong front-end coding ability — comfortable generating or co-writing production-quality code, not just prototyping • Direct experience designing AI or agentic workflow products • Portfolio and/or case studies showcasing design craft and ability to solve user problems with quantified impact — required to be considered. Ideal portfolio work is self-authored: projects where you were the sole designer and either generated or co-wrote the code yourself • Fluency with vibe coding and AI-assisted design tools to prototype, validate, and ship • Experience prototyping and shipping in real codebases; strong comfort working in GitHub • Track record of driving design direction across multiple teams or surfaces without heavy oversight • Proven experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including influencing engineering and product leadership • Experience building or contributing to design systems a plus, but not the focus of this role • Extremely high visual and interaction design polish and craft is the top priority for this role — pixel-level attention to detail, refined taste, and a strong eye for typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy, paired with the technical ability to build it • Strong systems thinker — able to design patterns that hold up in production, not just in prototypes • Knows what good code looks like and can both write it and help set up the broader team to implement well — craft and technical fluency go hand in hand for this role, neither is optional • Strong point of view on motion and interaction design (brand/marketing design experience is not a focus for this role) • Comfortable with 0→1 and early-stage work where the path isn't fully defined, especially in a fast-evolving AI/agentic product space • Self-directed and resourceful — can identify what needs to happen and move it forward without heavy structure • Product intuition and process experience are a plus but not required — visual craft, interaction quality, and technical fluency are the priority • Curious, hands-on, and resilient — able to zoom out strategically and zoom in to deliver polished, shipped work • Demonstrated proficiency with AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make) • ## CONTRACT DETAILS • Duration: 6 months (with conversion potential if based in a country where Samsara has legal entities) • Hours: 40 hrs/week, no overtime • Location: Fully remote • Rate: $90-$110/hr • WORK LOCATION & ELIGIBILITY: This is a fully remote contract role. Candidates based in a Samsara entity country are strongly preferred.Eligible countries are: • United States • United Kingdom • All offers are contingent upon an individual's ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work in their respective country.