Real-Time Broadcast Media Systems Engineer

Eccalon, LLC; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Eccalon, LLC is seeking a Broadcast Media Systems Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable streaming pipelines for analytics, ML, and mission-critical apps. You will work on distributed systems ingesting real-time data and collaborate with data, platform, and product teams to ensure reliability and performance.

You will implement low-level transport logic, optimize for throughput, and integrate FFmpeg, GStreamer, and TSDuck into our streaming ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• System Programming: 2+ years on real-time low-level/packet level coding in C/C++/Rust.
• Strong memory management, pointers, and multi-threaded optimization skills.
• Proficient in Go or Python for stream orchestration and control-plane APIs.
• Solid understanding of UDP/TCP/IP networking and socket programming.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data streaming pipelines.
• Develop and operate transport and broadcast media architectures.
• Implement low-level wrappers and APIs interfacing with video codecs.
• Optimize for throughput, latency, and resource efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics for streaming apps.
• Collaborate with broadcast engineering teams on MAMs, playout, and graphics.

Skills

Low-level programming

Go

Python

C/C++/Rust

Multithreading optimization

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

TSDuck

librist

Job description

Eccalon, LLC is seeking a Broadcast Media Systems Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable streaming pipelines for analytics, ML, and mission-critical apps. You will work on distributed systems ingesting real-time data and collaborate with data, platform, and product teams to ensure reliability and performance.

You will implement low-level transport logic, optimize for throughput, and integrate FFmpeg, GStreamer, and TSDuck into our streaming ecosystems.