Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data and automation in the physical world. We provide a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City.
Lead Embedded Software Engineer, AV
NYC-based team (Hybrid 3+ days a week in office)
The AV Engineering team ensures Viam’s users get a seamless experience with video, image, and audio streaming from setup to real-time performance. Our software runs on a variety of customer owned edge devices, mostly ARM-based Linux machines, and supports a wide range of hardware platforms and network conditions. We build the tools that allow our customers to easily set up and run a wide range of devices such as IP cameras, webcams, depth sensors, microphones, and speakers etc.
The AV team’s work spans everything from low-level driver integration to media stream optimization. As an engineer on the AV team, you might write drivers for USB and networked cameras, configure Linux audio and video subsystems, or optimize streaming under constrained conditions. We're an agile team that responds quickly to platform and customer needs.
As Lead AV Engineer, you'll manage a small yet critical team, contribute hands-on to development, and set the technical direction for video and audio solutions.
Tech Stack: Primarily Golang, C, and C++.
The AV team is responsible for:
- Supporting a wide variety of cameras and hardware configurations
- Implementing and optimizing efficient encoding/decoding frameworks
- Delivering a great end-user video experience on low-powered hardware
- Creating solutions that allow customers to build upon camera functionality
You'll be:
- Leading a specialized team of engineers focused on video and audio technology
- Providing technical direction in a niche domain with high customer impact
- Contributing to solutions for camera integration and video processing
- Collaborating closely with Robotics, Computer Vision, and Solutions Engineering teams
- Responding quickly to high-urgency customer needs while maintaining code quality
- Balancing tactical solutions with long-term technical vision
- Testing implementations on a variety of camera hardware
- Debugging streaming issues such as performance problems and flaky network or hardware connections.
We're looking for someone who:
- Brings experience building audio/video streaming software, with a focus on video
- Has experience with video/audio streaming technologies (RTSP, WebRTC, HLS, GRPC etc.)
- Is proficient in Golang, C and C++
- Understands how to optimize for memory, CPU, or network efficiency on constrained hardware
- Embraces rapidly changing priorities
- Can effectively balance customer responsiveness with technical excellence
- Has experience leading engineering teams or initiatives
Benefits:
The starting salary for this role is between $205,000 - $235,000/year. Your offer will vary based on several factors, including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced or more senior than the one described in this job description. The updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate in these situations. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.
- 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits
- Competitive salary & equity packages (see below)
- Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
- 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
- One Medical Membership
- Class Pass & Citi Bike memberships
- Free lunch every day that you’re in the office
- Paid parental leave
Top Skills
What We Do
Robotics has the potential to do so much good, but progress has been slowed by complicated hardware and software integrations, long development cycles, and people's fear of tripping over a robot on their way to work.
At Viam, we’re addressing these issues by building a novel robotics platform that relies on standardized building blocks rather than custom code to create, configure and control robots quickly and intuitively. We’re empowering engineers - aspiring and experienced - across industries to solve complicated automation problems with our innovative and developer-friendly software tools.
If you are interested in learning more, apply to one of our many open positions. We are hiring!
