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
Transforming how organizations protect people and places. Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive platform that includes video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Today, more than 30,000 organizations, including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, rely on Verkada. With over $1B in annualized bookings, a $5.8B valuation, and backing from NVIDIA, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, and Next47, we’re scaling rapidly across the global market. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. From retail stores preventing theft before it happens, to warehouses using AI-powered alerts to improve worker safety, to schools detecting and responding to threats in seconds, not minutes, Verkada is redefining what modern physical security can do. More than 2 million devices are now deployed across 170+ countries, and we’re just getting started.