Senior Video Compression Engineer — Cloud Video AI & ML

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Portland (OR); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

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Job summary

Elemental Technologies LLC, an AWS Elemental unit, seeks a Senior Video Compression Development Engineer to advance video processing capabilities across our platform. You will work on codecs such as VVC, AV1, HEVC, HDR, and ML-driven enhancements to serve millions of viewers worldwide.

You’ll join a focused team with clear leadership, tackling complex optimization challenges and delivering scalable, production-grade code for global streaming workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new/existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Improve the quality per bit in home-grown video encoders.
• Incorporate ML components to improve video quality and enable new use cases.
• Design and implement improved video filters (scaler, deinterlacer, or perceptual filter).
• Improve compute performance of video processing.

Skills

Software dev 5y

Programming language experience

Design/architecture leadership

Mentorship / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

SSE/AVX2/NEON

Job description

Elemental Technologies LLC, an AWS Elemental unit, seeks a Senior Video Compression Development Engineer to advance video processing capabilities across our platform. You will work on codecs such as VVC, AV1, HEVC, HDR, and ML-driven enhancements to serve millions of viewers worldwide.

You’ll join a focused team with clear leadership, tackling complex optimization challenges and delivering scalable, production-grade code for global streaming workloads.