Lead Video Codec Engineer — Embedded Media, C/C++

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Meta in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a senior software engineer to design, implement, and optimize video codec and media capture pipelines for wearable devices. You will balance visual quality and compression efficiency with power, thermal, latency, and memory constraints.

You will lead complex media projects, debug efforts, and collaborate with camera, hardware, and silicon teams while improving automated testing for correctness, quality, performance, and power.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
At least 7 years of software development experience (or a PhD with 4+ years).
At least 3 years of relevant video software engineering experience.
C/C++ multithreaded programming experience; track record of leading complex projects.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, integrate, and optimize video codec and media capture pipelines for wearable devices.
Balance visual quality with compression efficiency against power, thermal, latency, and memory constraints.
Lead complex media projects and debugging efforts; collaborate with camera, hardware and silicon teams.

Skills

C/C++

Multithreaded programming

Video codecs

Video encoding

Media capture pipelines

Rate control

Embedded systems

Kernel drivers

Firmware integration

Automated testing

Technical leadership

Hardware-accelerated media

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

PhD (4+ years)

Job description

You will lead complex media projects, debug efforts, and collaborate with camera, hardware, and silicon teams while improving automated testing for correctness, quality, performance, and power.

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