Senior Embedded Linux Engineer - Connectivity

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, Verkada Security Trailers, and Quality Sensors. We're a small, vertically integrated team that touches everything from embedded firmware to cloud backend services.

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)

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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.