Verkada
AI & Machine LearningDirect Greenhouse career site

Senior Embedded Engineer - Camera Platform

Pay
$130,000 – $280,000 per year
Location
San Mateo, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • C++
  • Golang
  • Linux
  • operating system internals
  • OTA update systems

Also useful

  • Bash
  • Python
  • Linux kernel development

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Paid parental leave
  • Wellness stipend

What You'll Do

  • Own the end-to-end development of on-device camera platform features in C++ and Golang.
  • Collaborate with the product team to turn requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions aligned with product vision and customer needs.
  • Partner with streaming, storage, and AI engineering teams to deliver features optimized for edge computing environments.
  • Lead code reviews, guide debugging efforts, and uphold coding standards to ensure a high-quality, maintainable codebase.
  • Drive and coordinate regular over-the-air (OTA) releases, balancing speed of delivery with stability and reliability.

What You Bring

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in systems software development for performance- and resource-constrained environments.
  • Proficient in at least one systems programming language: C++ or Golang.
  • 2+ years of experience building software for Linux-based platforms.
  • Strong understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.
  • Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.
  • Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

Nice to Have

  • Experience in development of on-device software for cloud-connected devices.
  • Familiar with Linux Kernel development.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Fertility Stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Healthy lunches provided daily
  • Commuter benefits

Additional Information

  • We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Pay Disclosure

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company.

With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting base pay may be above or below this range.

Base pay is also just one component of Verkada's total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Estimated Hourly Pay Range $130,000—$280,000 USD

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company.

With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity.

A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range $130,000—$280,000 USD

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

Read the original posting

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