Wearable Video Codec Engineer

Meta; Redmond; On-site; AUD 268,000 - 374,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Wearables Media Codec and Framework team develops the video encoding and media capture software powering wearable experiences. We seek a Video Codec Software Engineer to build and optimize codec implementations and hardware-accelerated media pipelines for wearable devices like smart glasses.

You will own problems from camera capture through encoding, containers, and AV synchronization, balancing compression, quality, latency, power, and memory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in C/C++ multithreaded programming and large/complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and troubleshoot video codec and media capture pipelines for wearable devices from camera capture through encoding and media output.
• Develop, configure, and tune video encoders to improve encoding efficiency and visual quality.
• Optimize codec performance within device power, thermal, latency, and memory constraints.
• Integrate hardware-accelerated video codecs with mobile/embedded media stacks across firmware and kernel drivers.
• Develop and improve media container handling, timestamp management, and audio/video synchronization.
• Lead technical design for complex media projects with camera/hardware teams and guide roadmaps.
• Build and improve automated tests/regression infrastructure for code correctness and performance.

Skills

C/C++ multithreaded programming

Video codecs

Media pipelines

Hardware-accelerated codecs

Linux kernel drivers

Camera capture integration

Debugging end-to-end systems

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

FFmpeg/libavcodec

x264/x265

Android MediaCodec/Codec2/OpenMAX/V4L2

Job description

Meta's Wearables Media Codec and Framework team develops the video encoding and media capture software powering wearable experiences. We seek a Video Codec Software Engineer to build and optimize codec implementations and hardware-accelerated media pipelines for wearable devices like smart glasses.

You will own problems from camera capture through encoding, containers, and AV synchronization, balancing compression, quality, latency, power, and memory.