Embedded Engineer - Streaming
Verkada, San Mateo, CA United States +1
The role
As an Embedded Engineer (Video Streaming), you will design and implement streaming features that power our 1M+.4M deployed cameras (and next generation cameras). You’ll collaborate with firmware, backend, and native client teams to build and own a highly performant streaming capture experience for live and history videos. At the same time, you’ll help make our firmware components more efficient, secure and future-proof.
What you will do
- 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.