Hardware Engineer

Quiet Capital; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible paid time off

Daily healthy lunches

Wellness/fitness benefits

Paid parental leave

Fertility stipend

Job summary

Verkada in San Mateo, CA is hiring a Hardware Engineer to lead the design and development of innovative hardware solutions. This full-time, in-person role involves collaborating with engineers and product managers to create cutting-edge products while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

The ideal candidate will have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, at least 3 years of experience in product design, and strong prototyping skills. Verkada offers robust health benefits, flexible PTO, and wellness perks.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering; M.S. preferred.
• 3+ years experience in designing new electronics products.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 15%.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical engineering for new products from concept to mass production.
• Collaborate with teams to develop new products.
• Quickly prototype new product concepts and perform debugging.
• Lead compliance efforts for relevant hardware products.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Product Design

Prototype Development

Compliance and Regulatory Knowledge

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Boards and Prototyping Tools

JDM/ODM Manufacturing Tools

Job description

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.

About this Role

As a Hardware Engineer on our hardware team, you will lead the design and development of Verkada’s newest products. Verkada’s Hardware Engineers own all electrical engineering design and validation aspects, working directly with our JDM partners to ship cutting‑edge products. This is a full‑time, in‑person role based in our San Mateo, CA office.

What You’ll Do

• Lead electrical engineering for new products from initial proof of concept through to mass production.
• Collaborate with US and an international team of hardware engineers, mechanical engineers, industrial designers, software engineers and product managers to develop new products.
• Own component selection, schematic and layout development based on the architecture you have created.
• Own and maintain Hardware Requirements Document, ensuring it accurately captures all system‑level and component‑level hardware specifications.
• Quickly prototype new product concepts for mock‑up builds and proof of concept studies. Get hands‑on with board bring‑up, debug, testing and validation.
• Build and execute robust test plans by leveraging resources at our JDM/ODM partners. Lead root‑cause analysis efforts related to EMI/EMC, surge, thermal, OTA prescan, other RF testing and more.
• Lead JDM teams to efficiently and effectively complete programs. Work closely with manufacturing partners to steer hardware designs through design and validation builds (EVT, DVT, PVT) and into mass production.
• Collaborate with manufacturing partners to review designs, run experiments, and troubleshoot issues.
• Lead compliance / regulatory efforts for relevant hardware products.

What You Bring

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering; M.S. preferred.
• 3+ years experience in designing new electronics products.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 15%.

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, firm‑wide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time.
• Fertility stipend.
• Wellness/fitness benefits.
• Healthy lunches provided daily.

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.

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).

$95,000 - $280,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.