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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Manufacturing Test Engineer, Embedded Software
NewPosted 6 days ago
Manufacturing Test Engineer, Embedded Software
- Develop the test software: Design and write the EOL test framework and station software from the ground up, including test sequencing, hardware drivers, logging, and pass/fail limits.
- Work with embedded systems: Communicate with vehicle controllers and onboard compute over standard interfaces (e.g., CAN, Ethernet, serial); write low-level tools and utilities to exercise and verify embedded hardware and firmware.
In office • Sunnyvale
$150k – $185kEngineering
ML Ops Engineer, Engineering Services
NewPosted 1 week ago
ML Ops Engineer, Engineering Services
- Build the production ML deployment, monitoring, and observability pipeline across programs.
- Absorb the data pipeline scope originally scoped as a separate hire.
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $210kEngineering
Senior Frontend Engineer, Video UI
NewPosted 1 week ago
Senior Frontend Engineer, Video UI
- Own the Signals video UI codebase and development lifecycle.
- Lead knowledge transfer from the current vendor UX designer.
In office • Sunnyvale
$170k – $200kEngineering
Senior ML / Computer Vision Engineer
NewPosted 1 week ago
Senior ML / Computer Vision Engineer
- Own ICM 2.0 detection models and the training, evaluation, and deployment pipeline.
- Lead knowledge transfer from the current vendor on the detection engine.
In office • Sunnyvale
$200k – $240kEngineering
Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming
NewPosted 1 week ago
Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming
- Own the video and streaming backend for Signals end to end.
- Lead vendor knowledge transfer on video pipeline architecture and operations.
In office • Sunnyvale
$210k – $250kEngineering
Fleet and Release Automation Engineer, Engineering Services
NewPosted 1 week ago
Fleet and Release Automation Engineer, Engineering Services
- Design, build, and operate the shared OTA and release pipeline across device products.
- Partner with Signals firmware engineers on unified OTA delivery.
In office • Sunnyvale
$165k – $195kEngineering
SDET, CI/CD Pipeline and Test Infrastructure
NewPosted 1 week ago
SDET, CI/CD Pipeline and Test Infrastructure
- Own the Signals CI/CD pipeline and test infrastructure end to end.
- Design and execute handoff of pipeline components from the current vendor.
In office • Sunnyvale
$165k – $195kEngineering
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, Engineering Services
NewPosted 1 week ago
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, Engineering Services
- Design, build, and operate the shared CI/CD pipeline serving Signals, K7/Nav, and Legacy.
- Own the cloud infrastructure that runs Knightscope's SaaS platforms and internal tooling.
In office • Sunnyvale
$165k – $195kEngineering
SDET, Security and AI-Enhanced Test Automation
NewPosted 1 week ago
SDET, Security and AI-Enhanced Test Automation
- Design and own the security testing strategy for the Signals platform end to end.
- Build AI-assisted test automation frameworks for test generation, triage, and coverage analysis.
In office • Sunnyvale
$180k – $210kEngineering
Security and Compliance Engineer, Engineering Services
NewPosted 1 week ago
Security and Compliance Engineer, Engineering Services
- Own SOC 2 evidence continuity through the Signals vendor transition.
- Own SSO, identity, and access-management engineering across programs.
In office • Sunnyvale
$170k – $200kOther Engineering
Device Firmware Engineer, Fleet Migration
NewPosted 1 week ago
Device Firmware Engineer, Fleet Migration
- Lead the phased migration of Signals device firmware from vendor to internal ownership.
- Partner with the current vendor during handoff to capture design and update mechanisms.
In office • Sunnyvale
$160k – $190kOperations
Mission Intelligence Analyst
NewPosted 3 weeks 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
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Forward Deployed Engineer
NewPosted 1 month ago
Forward Deployed Engineer
- Conduct site surveys and deployment engineering for autonomous machines and sensing infrastructure - coverage, connectivity, power, terrain, and escalation paths.
- Commission, configure, and integrate Knightscope technology in client environments - networks, video management systems, access control, and security operations workflows.
In office • Sunnyvale
$130k – $170kOther Engineering
Senior Controls Engineer – Robotics & Automation
NewPosted 2 months 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 2 months 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 4 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 4 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 – $195kEngineering
Staff Robot Intelligence & Integration Engineer
NewPosted 4 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 4 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 4 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 – $275k