Embedded Engineer

About the Role
As an Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming), you will design and implement streaming features that power our 1M .4M deployed cameras (and next generation cameras). You’ll collaborate with firmware, backend, and native client teams to build and own a highly performant streaming capture experience for live and history videos. At the same time, you’ll help make our firmware components more efficient, secure and future-proof.
What You''ll Do

• Design, develop, and optimize embedded video encoding and streaming pipelines for Verkada’s camera and security devices.
• Implement and tune hardware-accelerated video codecs (H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1) for performance, quality, and low power consumption.
• Build and extend multimedia frameworks (e.g., GStreamer, FFmpeg) to support real-time video capture, processing, and delivery.
• Integrate and optimize streaming protocols (RTSP, RTP, RTMP, HLS, DASH, WebRTC) for low-latency, reliable video transport at scale.
• Profile and optimize startup time (TTFF), latency, rebuffering, and overall video QoE metrics.
• Debug issues in encoding pipelines, transport layers, and device utilization (CPU/GPU/ISP).

What You Bring

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or similar degree).
• 5 years of professional experience in embedded systems development, with a focus on video streaming applications.
• Proficiency in C/C for embedded Linux environments.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Nice to Have

• Strong hands-on experience with video codecs (H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1) and hardware-accelerated encoding/decoding pipelines.
• Familiarity with multimedia frameworks such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, or custom video pipelines.
• Solid understanding of video streaming protocols (RTSP, RTP, RTMP, HLS, DASH, WebRTC) and adaptive bitrate streaming.
• Experience optimizing for low latency and startup time (TTFF) under constrained resources.

Salary : $130,000 - $150,000