Linux Embedded Software Engineer
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.
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 focused on hiring embedded software engineers that understand not only the lower-level systems, but also how everything integrates together from the hardware to the UI. You’ll be working closely on one side with our hardware vendors and ME/EE people, and on the other side with server and UI engineers, industrial designers, and our operations team. If you’re looking for a fast-paced environment where your work is regularly shipping to customers and improving people’s safety, this is the place for you!
What You'll Do
- Develop features for embedded platforms such as Cameras, Access control, Alarms, Sensors in Linux embedded environment.
- Debug, solve problems, do code reviews
- Define architecture, design of new features, functionalities.
- Take part in projects from inception to deployment and customer support.
- Build prototypes, work on proof of concepts.
- Research on technologies we are interested in for new products
- Work in cross-functional team
What You Bring
- +5 years of experience on Linux Embedded development
- +5 years of experience on C or C++ programming
- Experience with Yocto/bitbake
- Experience with Bash or other scripting language
- Experience with Git
Nice to Have
- Linux kernel modules programming
- Bootloaders (u-boot)
- Secure boot / security
- Go programing
- Python
- Experience in C++ programming
- Basic understanding of electrical ci
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