Jobs at Knightscope
Our long-term mission is to make the United States of America the safest country in the world, changing everything for everyone. Autonomous Data Machines (ADM) and our Knightscope Security Operations Center (KSOC) are part of the overall solution and we'd love to share more with you as we go make a huge impact on society! This is your chance to literally change the world for the better. Game on.
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Mission Intelligence Analyst
NewPosted 4 days ago
Mission Intelligence Analyst
- Providing consistent and constant alert and machine monitoring to provide excellent security and customer service resources for Knightscope clients
- Identifying and solving problems to improve the Mission Intelligence department
In office • Sunnyvale
Other Engineering
Senior Controls Engineer – Robotics & Automation
NewPosted 1 month ago
Senior Controls Engineer – Robotics & Automation
- Develop and maintain robot motion planning algorithms including trajectory generation, collision avoidance, and path planning
- Design and implement control algorithms for robotic and vehicle systems (PID control, Model Predictive Control (MPC), Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), trajectory tracking controllers)
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $210kEngineering
Senior IT Support Engineer
NewPosted 3 weeks ago
Senior IT Support Engineer
- Serve as the Tier 2/3 escalation point for all hardware, software, connectivity, and identity issues across Windows and macOS endpoints; own root cause analysis and permanent fixes rather than repeat break-fix
- Own the full device lifecycle — imaging and zero-touch provisioning, compliance policy, applica...
In office • Sunnyvale
$115k – $135kEngineering
Senior DevOps Engineer, Robotics
NewPosted 2 months ago
Senior DevOps Engineer, Robotics
- Build, operate, and continuously improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for a production robotics platform spanning autonomy, security perception, and embedded firmware stacks.
- Own the OTA update pipeline: multi-image container builds, staged fleet rollout, and rollback across heterogeneous hardware targets.
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $220kOther Engineering
Sr. Systems Engineer
NewPosted 2 months ago
Sr. Systems Engineer
- Own the charging and docking program end to end — serve as the single point of technical accountability for all aspects of K7 charging and docking, on-grid first and off-grid solar to follow, from concept through field qualification.
- Own the electrical and power systems architecture — spanning plug-in (J1772) charging, wireless...
In office • Sunnyvale
$160k – $195kOther Engineering
Staff Engineer - Vehicle and Propulsion Architecture
NewPosted 2 months ago
Staff Engineer - Vehicle and Propulsion Architecture
- Own the top-level CAD assembly of a four-wheeled vehicle platform, with a strong emphasis on packaging, manufacturability, serviceability, cost and integration of key sub-systems.
- Own powertrain requirements definition, selection, interfaces, and hardware and software integration.
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $210kOther Engineering
Staff Engineer – Chassis and Motion Controls
NewPosted 2 months ago
Staff Engineer – Chassis and Motion Controls
- Design and develop braking, steering, wheel, tire, and suspension concepts that improve cost, mass, efficiency, manufacturability, and serviceability for an autonomous security robot
- Challenge existing requirements and define new ones for system sizing, functions, and features based on regulations, first principles, and product attributes
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $210kEngineering
Staff Robot Intelligence & Integration Engineer
NewPosted 2 months ago
Staff Robot Intelligence & Integration Engineer
- Own the full intelligence-to-action loop: from K7's raw detection stream through entity reasoning, world-state modeling, and incident hierarchy, to policy decisions that drive safe, bounded robot behavior.
- Design and maintain the canonical event contract: a single, normalized message shape across all...
In office • Sunnyvale
$240k – $275kOther Engineering
Senior Audio/Video Engineer
NewPosted 2 months ago
Senior Audio/Video Engineer
- Design, build, and maintain the end-to-end real-time video pipeline: WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP ingest, hardware-accelerated transcoding, and simultaneous multi-stream rendering for up to 10 concurrent robot video feeds.
- Architect and optimize GStreamer-based multi-branch pipelines for video capture, processing, re...
In office • Sunnyvale
$155k – $210kEngineering
Staff Perception Engineer – Robotics
NewPosted 2 months ago
Staff Perception Engineer – Robotics
- Design, train, and deploy 3D perception models, object detection, segmentation, and multi-object tracking, from multi-modal sensor data (LiDAR, camera, thermal, radar) using state-of-the-art BEV and transformer-based architectures.
- Own the end-to-end ML pipeline from large-scale data curation and annotation strategy through m...
In office • Sunnyvale
$240k – $275kEngineering
Senior Full Stack Engineer
NewPosted 2 months ago
Senior Full Stack Engineer
- Design and build scalable RESTful and GraphQL APIs supporting live media pipelines, alert management, reporting, investigation workflows, and 3D digital twin data feeds.
- Develop highly responsive, accessible web interfaces for the Signals platform — including real-time dashboards, alert management views, investigation workspaces, and multi-stream video review with timeline scrubbing, frame-based navigation, and playback controls.
In office • Sunnyvale
$185k – $250kEngineering
ECD Chief Program Engineer
NewPosted 2 months ago
ECD Chief Program Engineer
- Serve as the single point of accountability for all technical aspects of the ECD product line: Blue Light Tower, Blue Light Emergency Phone, Call Box, and Retrofit Kit.
- Lead new product development for the next generation Retrofit Kit – from concept through validation, regulatory approvals, and production ramp – including integration with the Knightscope Signals platform.
In office • Sunnyvale
$150k – $180kEngineering
Mid/Senior Software Engineer, Product Development
NewPosted 2 months ago
Mid/Senior Software Engineer, Product Development
- Experience with RFID/NFC protocols (ISO 14443, ISO 18000, EPC Gen2)
- Familiarity with serial communication (UART, SPI, I2C) to talk to readers
In office • Sunnyvale
$150k – $180kEngineering
Mid/Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Product Development
NewPosted 2 months ago
Mid/Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Product Development
- Interface with IMU chip (gyroscope/accelerometer) via SPI or I2C communication protocols
- Read, parse, and timestamp raw IMU sensor data in real time
In office • Sunnyvale
$150k – $180kEngineering
Principal Engineer
NewPosted 4 months ago
Principal Engineer
- Own and evolve the end-to-end system architecture for the Signals platform, including its microservices, real-time data pipelines, APIs, and front-end integration layer.
- Design and document scalable, secure architecture patterns for multi-sensor data ingestion (video, audio, LiDAR, thermal, telemetry) from K1, K5, K7 robots and third-party devices.
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $230k