Senior Embedded Video Streaming Engineer

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision and dental coverage

HSA/FSA benefits

Mental health support

Parental leave and fertility benefits

Paid holidays and flexible PTO

Job summary

Verkada is seeking an Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming) to design and implement streaming features powering our camera fleet. You will collaborate with firmware, backend, and native client teams to build a high-performance streaming capture experience for live and history videos.

You will optimize codecs, streaming protocols, and multimedia frameworks to deliver low latency, reliable video at scale, while improving startup time and QoE on embedded devices running Linux.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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).

Skills

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Video streaming

Onsite required

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

RTSP

HLS

Job description

Verkada is seeking an Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming) to design and implement streaming features powering our camera fleet. You will collaborate with firmware, backend, and native client teams to build a high-performance streaming capture experience for live and history videos.

You will optimize codecs, streaming protocols, and multimedia frameworks to deliver low latency, reliable video at scale, while improving startup time and QoE on embedded devices running Linux.