2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize embedded video encoding and streaming pipelines for Verkada camera and security devices.
- Implement and tune hardware-accelerated H.264, H.265/HEVC, and AV1 codecs for performance, quality, and low power consumption.
- Build and extend GStreamer, FFmpeg, and custom multimedia frameworks for real-time video capture, processing, and delivery.
- Integrate and optimize RTSP, RTP, RTMP, HLS, DASH, and WebRTC streaming protocols.
- Profile and optimize startup time, latency, rebuffering, and video quality-of-experience metrics.
- Debug encoding pipelines, transport layers, and CPU, GPU, and ISP utilization issues.
- Collaborate with firmware, backend, and native client teams to deliver performant streaming capabilities.
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in embedded systems development focused on video streaming applications.
- Proficiency in C and C++ for embedded Linux environments.
- Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week.
- Hands-on experience with video codecs and hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding pipelines is preferred.
- Familiarity with GStreamer, FFmpeg, or custom video pipelines is preferred.
- Understanding of video streaming protocols and adaptive bitrate streaming is preferred.
- Experience optimizing low latency and startup time under constrained resources is preferred.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account.
- Expanded mental health support.
- Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
- Visa sponsorship and sponsorship takeover are available.
- This is an onsite role requiring five days per week in the workplace.
About Verkada
Verkada builds a cloud-managed physical security platform for enterprises, combining security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management with web and mobile software. It sells hardware plus software licenses through a subscription model to organizations like schools, retailers, and industrial sites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Verkada reports 30,000+ customers worldwide and is privately held.