Software Engineering Manager - Search
Verkada · Cameras
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $200K–$315K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 6 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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.…
About the Role
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Verkada's Search team, the group responsible for the AI-powered search and computer vision capabilities that make our camera fleet best in class in investigation and alerting. From face and person search to license…
Leadership & Team Building
Build the Team: Recruit, hire, and mentor a high-performing group of backend and ML engineers covering search infrastructure, computer vision, and applied AI. Strategic Oversight: Own the end-to-end roadmap for Search and ML engineering backend from…
AI Search & Applied ML (Hands-On)
Agentic & Generative AI: Drive the rollout of AI-Powered Search, LLM migrations, VLM experimentation, and agentic AI into production-grade features. Embeddings & Retrieval: Oversee the evolution of our vector search stack to improve recall, latency, and cost…
Search Infrastructure & Platform
Service Ownership: Accountable for a portfolio of production services including submission endpoints, inference pipelines, APIs and database layer. Migrations & Deprecations: Execute in-flight migrations into new advanced pipelines and deprecations of old…
Reliability & Quality
On-Call & Incident Response: Own the team on-call rotation, post-mortem quality, and the new programs required to scale the team. Test Coverage: Expand integration test coverage and search pipeline change testing to catch regressions before they reach…
What You Bring
7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing backend or ML engineering teams. Track record leading 5+ engineers running production services at meaningful scale. 4+ years of hands-on experience in at least two of: information…
Nice to Haves
Experience integrating foundation models via open-source GPU inference stacks. Familiarity with face recognition, person re-identification, LPR, or similar fine-grained CV pipelines. Background in physical security, video surveillance, or IoT/connected-device…
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but…
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the…
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