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Salary: USD 220,000 - 315,000 / annual
Verkada is a high-growth physical AI platform company (30,000+ customers including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, $5.8B valuation, $1B+ annualized bookings) transforming organizational security and safety through integrated solutions spanning video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
You will lead the founding Atlas engineering team, responsible for building Verkada's Spatial Systems—the core rendering engine, tiling infrastructure, and collaborative APIs that power the visual interface across the entire product ecosystem. Atlas is not building siloed features; you are architecting a foundational Spatial Platform that 8+ core product teams (Cameras, Access Control, Sensors, Alarms, Admin) will use as their canvas for overlaying specialized data onto interactive digital twins of physical spaces.
Key responsibilities:
**Zero-to-One Execution**: Act as a "Player-Coach" to build the V1 of the Spatial System from the ground up. You will own initial delivery of the image pipeline and establish technical standards for collaborative editing protocols.
**Platform Architecture**: Lead design of a modular, plugin-based architecture. Define SDKs and APIs enabling 8+ product teams to seamlessly overlay their specialized data onto maps.
**Data Ingestion Strategy**: Oversee systems that transform unstructured source data (blueprints, CAD files, high-resolution imagery) into clean, topologically sound vector data using ML and automated processing.
**Hire & Mentor**: Build the founding Atlas team from scratch (4-6 engineers). Establish engineering culture, code review standards, and architectural RFC processes, with focus on high-performance graphics and spatial math.
**Stakeholder Partnership**: Serve as primary technical diplomat for the Maps mandate. Negotiate technical boundaries with other product engineering managers to ensure unified user experience across the Verkada suite.
Required qualifications and experience:
- Execution bias and technical grit: proven ability to thrive in high-ambiguity zero-to-one builds, prioritizing shipped high-utility foundations over perfect abstractions. Track record of translating high-level vision into functioning platforms in weeks, not months.
- Strategic communication skills: ability to negotiate technical boundaries with cross-functional product teams and ensure consistent user experience.
- Deep UI expertise: demonstrated leadership building highly complex, state-heavy web or mobile applications. Understanding of performance trade-offs when rendering thousands of interactive entities. Deep grasp of modern frontend architectures (React, WebGL/WebGPU, Swift/Kotlin).
- Data pipeline and ML maturity: experience building sophisticated data pipelines handling unstructured data at scale. Proficiency with ML, ETL, or complex geometric algorithms to transform raw inputs into structured, queryable information.
Verkada sponsors employment visas for this role.
