Video Processing Software Engineer — Hybrid (9/80)

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubic Corporation's Cubic Defense unit in Ashburn, VA seeks a Software Engineer, Video Processing Platform Maintenance to maintain and extend a C++ media-processing platform and a Windows desktop video exploitation suite. This individual contributor role follows a 9/80 schedule with a hybrid work arrangement.

The role spans reliability, builds, debugging, release support, and incremental feature work across video-processing services, desktop workflows, plugins, and deployment artifacts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electronic engineering, or related field with 5+ years of experience; or a master’s with 3+ years.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance.
• 5+ years in professional software engineering with strong C++ experience and large codebases.
• Professional experience with C#/.NET desktop development (WinForms/WPF) and Visual Studio.
• Experience debugging across managed/native code, Linux dependencies, installers, and third-party binaries.
• Experience with Docker-based development, CI/CD, gRPC/protobuf, and scripting with PowerShell or Makefiles.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance C++ media processors for ingest, streaming, packaging, thumbnails, and metadata.
• Debug media-processing issues involving FFmpeg/ libav, MPEG-TS, MP4/fMP4, and GPU paths.
• Maintain Dockerized Linux builds across x86_64 and arm64, including CI/CD troubleshooting.
• Update gRPC/protobuf interfaces and validate processors in Kubernetes-hosted pipelines.
• Maintain Windows desktop modules for controls, workspaces, and reporting.
• Debug customer- and QA-reported issues across ingest, playback, and post-processing workflows.
• Trace defects across C#, .NET, native C++, and third-party runtimes; manage builds.
• Create tests, build notes, and maintainer checklists for complex defects and workflows.

Skills

C++

C#/.NET

WinForms/WPF

Docker

gRPC/Protobuf

PowerShell

CI/CD

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / software engineering

Master's degree in a related technical discipline

Tools

Visual Studio

MSBuild

NuGet

Conan

Job description

Cubic Corporation's Cubic Defense unit in Ashburn, VA seeks a Software Engineer, Video Processing Platform Maintenance to maintain and extend a C++ media-processing platform and a Windows desktop video exploitation suite. This individual contributor role follows a 9/80 schedule with a hybrid work arrangement.

The role spans reliability, builds, debugging, release support, and incremental feature work across video-processing services, desktop workflows, plugins, and deployment artifacts.