Senior Video Codec Engineer (Wearables) - Equity

Meta; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta in San Diego is seeking a senior video software engineer to design, implement, and optimize video codecs and media capture pipelines for wearable devices. You will lead complex projects and collaborate with camera, hardware, and silicon teams to integrate codecs, improve synchronization and containers, and build automated regression testing.

You will drive quality, latency, power, and memory optimization while mentoring teammates and shaping engineering best practices for multimedia systems.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Seven+ years of software development experience (or four+ years with a PhD).
• Three+ years of relevant video software engineering experience; C/C++ multithreaded programming required.
• Experience leading complex projects and familiarity with codecs, embedded media stacks, and media testing is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, tune, and debug video codec and media capture pipelines for wearable devices, optimizing quality, compression, latency, power, thermal behavior, and memory use.
• Lead complex media projects and collaborate with camera, hardware, and silicon teams to integrate codecs, improve synchronization and containers, and build automated regression testing.

Skills

C/C++

Multithreaded Programming

Video Codecs

Media Capture Pipelines

Hardware-Accelerated Encoding

Rate Control

Compression Optimization

Media Containers

Audio/Video Synchronization

Performance Profiling

Power and Thermal Optimization

Kernel Drivers

Firmware Integration

Automated Media Testing

Codec Quality Evaluation

Technical Project Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

PhD

Job description

Meta in San Diego is seeking a senior video software engineer to design, implement, and optimize video codecs and media capture pipelines for wearable devices. You will lead complex projects and collaborate with camera, hardware, and silicon teams to integrate codecs, improve synchronization and containers, and build automated regression testing.

You will drive quality, latency, power, and memory optimization while mentoring teammates and shaping engineering best practices for multimedia systems.