Legal Intern

About the role:

We’re seeking Legal Interns for Samsara’s 2025 Summer Internship Program, which will run from late May 2025 to early September 2025 (start/end dates are flexible based on academic schedules). 

Our Legal team embodies Samsara’s core values of focusing on customer success, building for the long term, adopting a growth mindset, being inclusive, and winning as a team. We partner closely with our counterparts across Samsara – from our sales and marketing teams to our engineering and product teams, and everything in between – to help scale the business quickly and responsibly. We strive to provide practical solutions to complex problems. And we enthusiastically embrace the huge opportunity in front of us to have a positive impact on our customers, employees, partners, and communities in which we operate. 

In this role, you will take on a broad range of legal issues that will predominantly focus on commercial contracts and related projects but may also include opportunities to learn more about intellectual property, privacy, employment, compliance, litigation, product counseling, regulatory, and corporate matters.  

The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated and eager to learn; an independent yet collaborative person who excels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and who can work across multiple teams. We want you to be a force-multiplier, making those around you more effective. You have strong communication and interpersonal skills and are comfortable taking on new challenges. You focus on the details, and you also have the broad vision to bring large and multi-stepped projects to completion.  

This is a fully remote 12-week summer internship. Interns will have the opportunity to visit our headquarters office in San Francisco regardless of where they are based, and (although not required) any interns based in the Bay area will have the option to work from this office during the internship.  We have two summer cohorts for the internship: May 19-August 15, 2025 or June 23-September 12, 2025. Which cohort you enter will be determined by your school schedule. We will not be providing relocation for this role and being in-office for this role is not required. We are only considering rising 2L and rising 3L students for this internship at this time.  

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping 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: We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, along with countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re 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 high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Work on a wide range of legal issues across the company, but with a concentration on the reviewing, negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts with vendors, partners and customers and other commercial related matters.   
• Collaborate with different teams to drive strategic business and legal initiatives.
• Support ad hoc legal requests of almost every size and type, including legal issues touching upon product counseling, regulatory, employment, compliance, litigation, privacy, intellectual property, corporate and other matters.
• Exercise initiative and creativity in solving problems and accomplishing business goals.
• Present your work product to the Legal team and other key internal stakeholders.
• 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. 

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Full-time law student who will be entering their 2L or 3L year at a nationally-accredited law school following completion of the internship.
• Strong academic record, excellent communicator, project manager, and team player.
• Highly proactive self-starter who consistently delivers quality work product.
• Adaptable, flexible and creative. 
• Aptitude for developing and fostering strong cross-functional relationships. 
• A practical and proactive problem-solver who possesses strong business acumen and is self-assured, mature, and calm under fire.

An ideal candidate also:

• Has prior experience and/or is motivated to learn more about working in-house at a technology company.