C++ Software Engineer - Video

Enterprise Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Enterprise Recruitment Ltd. in London seeks a C++ Software Engineer to develop and maintain integration across media frameworks, players and encoding systems, focusing on FFmpeg and GStreamer.

The role involves investigating interoperability, performance and platform-specific behavior across OSes and devices, and feeding improvements back to core APIs with internal teams.

Qualifications

• Commercial software development in C and/or C++.
• System level development or debugging on Linux and/or Windows.
• Experience in FFmpeg, GStreamer, video encoding, mobile or browser media, WebRTC, or GPU accelerated processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integration of the company's tech across media frameworks, players and encoding systems.
• Investigate interoperability, performance and platform-specific behaviour across OSes, devices and third-party apps.
• Produce tests, sample apps and integration docs; contribute upstream to open source when appropriate.

Skills

C/C++ development

System level development

FFmpeg/GStreamer/Video encoding

Job description

C++ Software Engineer

London based

A key responsibility of the C++ Software Engineer will be to develop and maintain the integration of the company's technology across a range of media frameworks, players and encoding systems, with a primary focus on FFmpeg and GStreamer.

A significant part of the role involves investigating interoperability, performance and platform specific behaviour across operating systems, devices and third party applications, then feeding improvements back into the core integration layers and APIs alongside the internal development teams.

The C++ Software Engineer will also produce tests, sample applications and integration documentation used by customers and partners, and will contribute changes upstream to open source projects where appropriate.

C++ Software Engineer essential requirements:

• Commercial software development in C and/or C++
• System level development or debugging on Linux and/or Windows
• Experience in at least one of FFmpeg, GStreamer, video encoding, mobile or browser media, WebRTC, or GPU accelerated processing

C++ Software Engineer desirable experience:

• Video codecs and streaming formats such as H.264/AVC, HEVC, AV1, VVC, HLS, MPEG-DASH or CMAF
• Android media development using Media3/ExoPlayer, MediaCodec or the Android NDK
• Apple platform development using Swift, Objective-C, AVFoundation or VideoToolbox
• GPU, cloud, real time or VR/AR development