Senior Embedded Linux Engineer - Connectivity

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision and dental coverage

HSA / FSA options

Paid parental leave

Mental health support

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Healthy lunches provided

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is building an AI-powered platform for video security, access control, air quality sensors, and more. The Connectivity Team owns strategically critical products like gateways, security trailers, and sensors, touching firmware, networking, cloud services, and frontend.

The role focuses on developing software and firmware for shipped devices, owning full engineering cycles, and mentoring teammates while expanding knowledge across the stack. Onsite work is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or closely related degree or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of work experience in an embedded engineering role.
• Proficient in C, C++ or Go.
• Experience with SPI, I2C, UART, and FreeRTOS/Embedded Linux.
• Experience with Go and Python (preferred).
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Build software and firmware for devices shipped to customers.
• Own end-to-end engineering cycle: scope, architecture and low-level design; trade-offs; testing and data-driven methods.
• Mentor other engineers and collaborate with product teams to ship features.
• Contribute to other parts of the stack (backend services) if interested.

Skills

C/C++

Go

Python

Embedded engineering

Education

Bachelors or Masters in CS/EE or related

Tools

FreeRTOS

Embedded Linux

Networking protocols

Job description

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.

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.

About The Role

We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company:

• Verkada Gateways – (https://www.verkada.com/gateways/) Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world
• Verkada Security Trailers –(https://www.verkada.com/security-trailers/) Rapid-deploy mobile security units
• Quality Sensors – (https://www.verkada.com/air-quality/) Environmental intelligence at scale

We’re a small, vertically integrated team. That means we touch everything:

• Embedded firmware
• Cellular modems & SIMs
• Linux networking
• Cloud backend services
• Command Frontend

What You'll Do

• Be responsible for building the software and firmware that goes onto the devices we ship to our customers
• Own the full engineering cycle end to end, including scoping, architecture and low level design, solutions trade-off, development with test driven and data driven methods
• Proven track record of methodical problem solving skills, debugging skills and overall excellent logical thinking skills. Strong motivation to build quality products that are reliable, performant and sustainable
• Growth mindset and willingness to learn new technologies that are critical to product development
• Work with product management and cross functional teams to build and ship features that delight users and customers
• Help mentor other engineers
• Contribute to other parts of the stack (e.g. our backend services), if that interests you

What You Bring

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or closely related degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of work experience in an embedded engineering role
• Proficient in C, C++ or Go
• Prior work experience in owning SW features or projects end to end with production launch is a major plus
• Prior work experience in SW development on HW products, for example, working knowledge of common low-level interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART, working knowledge of FreeRTOS and Embedded Linux (preferred)
• Experience with networking and wireless communication protocols (preferred)
• Experience programming in Go and Python (preferred)
• Experience reading schematics (basic EE skills) (preferred)
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

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.

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

$180,000—$300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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