Samineh is a Research Fellow in Workplace Injury with the Healthy Working Lives Research Group at Monash University. She contributes to the delivery of the Workers' Voice project, a user-centric reimagining of the workers' compensation system in Australia. The project is funded by the Australian Research Council.

Samineh completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Newcastle in 2016 and was a researcher at the Black Dog Institute, a medical research institute affiliated with UNSW Sydney, from 2017 until 2025. At the Black Dog Institute, she examined novel mental health interventions for adults with chronic diseases and for employees in occupations who are at risk of experiencing traumatic work events and high job demands, such as early-career physicians and emergency service workers.

In 2022, Samineh entered a collaboration fellowship with the NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority to add to the existing evidence base on facilitators and barriers of primary and secondary psychological injury.