CODEC Video Compression Engineer/Developer

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of dual CPU/GPU hybrid video compression encoder architecture that can seamlessly combine SW and HW encoding engines
• Design, develop, and optimize video compression algorithms in C/C++, Assembly, Rust or similar languages
• Implement and optimize encoder/decoder pipelines for real-time applications
• Analyze and improve codec performance for speed, quality, and efficiency across CPU, GPU
• Perform error handling
• Conduct performance benchmarking, debugging, and quality assurance testing: Develop and use objective and subjective metrics to evaluate codec performance
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate CODEC solutions into products, using high-level synthesis, or FPGA/ASIC design flows
• Stay updated on emerging video standards, compression techniques, and industry trends
• You should have the following
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Solid understanding of video compression theory, motion estimation, transform coding, MC DCT, VBSMC, entropy coding, and rate control
• Codec implementation experience in developing actual software and hardware that encodes and decodes video data according to a specific compression format
• System Verilog experience (HLS/C++)
• Solid understanding of video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266, VP9, AV1) and rate control algorithms
• Experience with hardware implementations using dedicated chips (FPGAs, ASICs, DSPs), and hybrid implementations using software for control logic with hardware accelerators GPUs (NVENC, NVDEC). Experience with GPU acceleration (CUDA, Vulkan, OpenCL)
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and experience with SIMD optimizations (SSE, AVX, NEON)
• Front-end development for control of performance-critical code
• Experience with multithreaded programming and performance profiling tools, debugging, and performance optimization
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment