Responsibilities
- Build software and firmware deployed on Verkada customer devices.
- Own the full engineering cycle, including scoping, architecture, low-level design, trade-off analysis, development, testing, and production delivery.
- Debug and solve complex problems while building reliable, performant, and sustainable products.
- Collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to build and ship customer-facing features.
- Mentor other engineers.
- Contribute to other parts of the stack, including backend services, as interested.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least four years of work experience in an embedded engineering role.
- Proficiency in C, C++, or Go.
- Experience owning software features or projects end to end through production launch is a major plus.
- Experience developing software for hardware products and working with low-level interfaces such as SPI, I2C, and UART is preferred.
- Working knowledge of FreeRTOS and Embedded Linux is preferred.
- Experience with networking and wireless communication protocols is preferred.
- Experience programming in Go and Python is preferred.
- Basic electrical engineering skills, including reading schematics, are preferred.
- Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.
Benefits
- Healthcare, medical, vision, and dental coverage, with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums 80% covered under all plans.
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account.
- Expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, and fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays, extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend, fertility stipend, wellness and fitness benefits, healthy lunches, and commuter benefits.
- Onsite work five days per week.
- Employment visa sponsorship is available.
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.