Lead Software Engineer, Viam
Audio Video
$205-235k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
AI for the physical world
Open for applications
AI for the physical world
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$205-235k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make building, deploying and managing robots more flexible, affordable and easy to use so that builders can do more with robots while getting them to market faster.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Viam offers an open-source software platform designed for scalable development in industries like IoT, robotics, industrial automation, and smart homes. Its modular, interoperable platform enables developers to manage hardware solutions across various devices and fleets, streamlining workflows and supporting AI-driven innovation.
Initially focused on robotics, Viam recently rebranded to appeal to a wider range of industries, including food processing and marine automation. By broadening its message, Viam has successfully expanded its market appeal and aligned its platform with the needs of diverse industries.
Alongside this success is substantial funding, which will fuel expansion into enterprise partnerships and product development. With growing interest from industries like industrial automation and conservation, the company is well-positioned for future growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$30m
SERIES C
Mar 2024
$45m
SERIES B
Total funding: $117m
Company benefits
- Learning & development education reimbursements
- Training & mentorship opportunities
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision benefits covered
- Flexible work from home and office balance
- 20 weeks gender neutral parental leave
- Personal prosperity and family planning benefits
- Employee resource groups
- Catered lunch in the office
- Commuting benefits
Company HQ
Upper West Side, New York, NY
Leadership
Eliot Horowitz
(Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded ShopWiki and MongoDB where they served as CTO. They also have experience as a Software Engineer at DoubleClick.
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