Senior Design Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Design Engineer with deep expertise in real-time media systems, audio/video compression, and high-performance software development. You will play a critical role in building scalable, low-latency encoding pipelines that operate across cloud, edge, and bare-metal environments. This position involves working with advanced codecs, open-source frameworks, and IP-based broadcast standards.
As part of your role, you will help translate the product vision and system requirements into concrete software development projects, driving end-to-end technical execution.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize software for real-time video and audio compression (e.g., H.264, HEVC, AV1, JPEG XS, VVC, AAC, AC-3, NDI).
• Translate product vision and system requirements into concrete, software deliverables.
• Work with media frameworks such as FFmpeg and GStreamer for both audio and video pipelines.
• Implement CPU and GPU-based acceleration paths (e.g., SIMD, CUDA, NVENC, NVDEC ) for low-latency media processing.
• Architect modular, scalable components for deployment in cloud native and bare metal environments.
• Profile and tune software for throughput, latency, and system resource efficiency across varied hardware targets.
• Develop and support IP-based live media systems using standards like SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS, and PTP.
• Work with real-time transport protocols like RTP, UDP, MPEG-TS, SRT, RIST.
• Maintain clean, testable C/C++ code with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Conduct design and code reviews; contribute to internal standards and software architecture practices, share technical knowledge and mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with QC, and product teams on validation, CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment of live systems.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on C/C++ development in high-performance or real-time systems.
• Strong understanding of video and audio compression standards and formats.
• Experience with media frameworks such as FFmpeg or GStreamer in production systems.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems programming, including memory management, file I/O, scheduling, and process control.
• Familiarity with inter process communication (IPC) mechanisms: shared memory, sockets, pipes, message queues.
• Experience with multithreaded and parallel programming techniques.
• Working knowledge of GPU or SIMD-based performance optimizations.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell for automation and build tooling.
• Understanding of network transport protocols (TCP, UDP, RTP)

Additional Technical Experience:

• IP‑based broadcast standards: SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS IS‑04/IS‑05, PTP / IEEE 1588.
• Low‑latency A/V synchronization in live production.
• Hardware codec APIs: NVIDIA Video Codec SDK, Intel oneVPL, AMD AMF.
• Adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS, MPEG‑DASH) and multi‑profile encoding.
• Debugging tools: ffprobe, gst-launch, tcpdump, Wireshark
• OpenCV for image/video processing or computer vision preprocessing.
• Vulkan API experience for high throughput GPU compute or future codec acceleration.
• Contributions to open source media, vision, or systems libraries.

What we offer:

• Employer funded benefits program
• Competitive total compensation package
• Work-life balance
• Employee Assistance plan
• Employee Discount Platform
• Career progression
• Casual work environment
• Social events and sports teams