- Robot type
- Service and Consumer
- Location
- Palo AltoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 31, 2026
- Salary
- $185,000–$275,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Video
Job description
We're looking for an engineer to join a new team building features on top of in-store camera feeds (not the kiosk's own sensors, but the store's security/overhead cameras). Today that footage mostly just sits on-site, unused. This team will build the pipeline to get value out of it, whether that means analyzing it where it lives or pulling it into the cloud, across thousands of stores each with its own network constraints and camera hardware.
You'll be an early member of the team. That means writing the capture/ingestion code, dealing with real codec and streaming decisions (what to encode in, how to transport and play back efficiently over constrained store networks), figuring out what…
Job responsibilities
- Writing the actual code, end to end, for a 0-to-1 pipeline: capturing feeds from in-store cameras, encoding, and getting that video where it needs to go, whether that's processed on-site or ingested and stored in the…
- Making real codec and streaming-protocol decisions: encoding formats, bitrate/quality tradeoffs, adaptive streaming
- Making fast, pragmatic calls on architecture with incomplete information, and being fine revisiting them as real-world store conditions prove you wrong
- Getting the first feature or two working end-to-end (e.g. a monitoring view, or feeding footage into an early AI feature) to prove the pipeline works
- Working alongside a small, scrappy group across hardware, ML, and backend, figuring out together what "good" looks like, not inheriting a spec
- Dealing with the reality of store hardware: varying camera models, spotty or shared network connections, and physical sites you can't always control
- Doing whatever the moment calls for: debugging a flaky store network connection one day, writing a service to process or ship video the next
- Using AI coding tools to move fast: prototyping quickly, cutting through boilerplate, and iterating on architecture without getting bogged down
Job requirements
- 5+ years relevant coding experience, with a track record of shipping production code yourself.
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
- Strong Python, plus comfort picking up whatever language or tool the problem actually needs
- Hands-on experience with video codecs, encoding, and streaming protocols: video player, media pipeline, or streaming platform work (think the engineering behind a video player at a company like Crunchyroll, Netflix,…
- Experience touching both sides of a pipeline, edge/device code and cloud services, rather than only one layer
- Has built something from zero before: a new service, a new team's first system, a 0-to-1 project with no existing scaffolding
- Comfortable being one of the few people who know how a piece of the system works, at least for a while
- Startup experience, ideally on a small or newly-formed team where you wore multiple hats.