Senior Embedded Video Streaming Engineer

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HSA with employer contributions

Parental leave

Job summary

Verkada is seeking an experienced Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming) to own end-to-end video infrastructure powering 1.4M+ cameras. You will design and optimize embedded pipelines, tune hardware codecs, and extend multimedia frameworks for real-time capture and transport.

You will work across firmware, backend, and native client teams to deliver secure, low-latency video delivery at scale, using RTSP/RTP/RTMP/HLS/DASH/WebRTC in a high-performance embedded Linux environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in embedded systems development, with a specific focus on video streaming applications.
• Embedded C/C++ mastery in embedded Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Embedded Pipeline Architecture: Design, develop, and optimize embedded video encoding, capture, and streaming pipelines for current and next-gen cameras.
• Hardware-Accelerated Codecs: Implement and tune hardware-accelerated codecs (H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1) for quality, throughput and power.
• Multimedia Framework Extension: Build/extend multimedia processing frameworks (GStreamer, FFmpeg or custom) for real-time video capture, processing and transport.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Embedded Linux

Video streaming

Low-latency design

GStreamer/FFmpeg

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/CE/EE

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

Custom pipelines

RTSP/RTP/RTMP/HLS/DASH/WebRTC

Job description

Verkada is seeking an experienced Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming) to own end-to-end video infrastructure powering 1.4M+ cameras. You will design and optimize embedded pipelines, tune hardware codecs, and extend multimedia frameworks for real-time capture and transport.

You will work across firmware, backend, and native client teams to deliver secure, low-latency video delivery at scale, using RTSP/RTP/RTMP/HLS/DASH/WebRTC in a high-performance embedded Linux environment.