Senior Software Engineer, Connected Devices

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Connected Devices, Embedded Device Platform and Software Engineering Team, you will help us push the boundaries of what is possible on some of the most interesting 10-foot devices in the marketplace. You'll be part of an advanced team where you'll be in uncharted territory exploring the latest connected and set-top box devices on the market.

We're looking for an engineer who's proficient at C/C++ in a set-top-box (STB) and/or embedded systems world, with experience writing cross platform code, porting applications and runtimes across multiple hardware platforms, with an attention to detail that goes deep in uncovering the nuances of an embedded device hardware to optimize our application experiences.

This opening is for both senior and mid-level engineers with experience in developing and porting production applications. Whether you're in New York or California we provide opportunities to elevate your career and to transform an industry.

We truly believe we offer a unique opportunity for any technologist:
• To work on a bleeding edge technology stack
• To work with a world-class team of Engineers
• To work on award-winning, complex apps and systems
• To work in a highly collaborative team environment
• To have an influence on the innovation of products used globally by millions

Toolset:
• Visual Studio or IDE of choice!
• Github Enterprise
• Jenkins
• Confluence
• JIRA
• Slack
• Docker
• AWS
• Linux / Windows / Mac
• GCC toolchains
• gdb and/or other debuggers

Responsibilities:
• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for porting our next generation platform and apps for embedded and set-top box devices.
• Supporting development activities and tooling requirements
• Work with hardware manufacturing partners to vet new hardware.
• Port and optimize our work to new hardware.
• Work with network operator partners to assist them in porting our work to their hardware.
• Maintain a strong understanding of our native client platform (written in C/C++) to identify, research and address issues as they arise.
• Support efforts and use cases related to DRM, A/V playback, performance, toolchains, middleware (MW) and/or OS, driver level decoding and decryption, etc.
• Collaborate with client application development teams, services engineering teams and product to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements.

Basic Qualifications:
• Senior level candidates should have 5+ years of C/C++ experience on embedded systems and/or writing portable multi-platform code.
• Strong experience with older version of C++ (98) and comfortable with Modern C++ (11/14/17)
• Understanding of various chip architectures and what features they support
• Experience using build runners / compilation tools for multi-platform projects
• Senior level candidates must have experience mentoring junior level team members.
• Customer support and troubleshooting experience
• Familiarity with multiple operating systems, with one of them being Linux or Linux like
• Exposure to use of set-top-box or similar embedded devices
• When global conditions permit, some travel, including international travel, may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Familiarity with set-top box and/or embedded device development such as system-on-chips (SoCs) from manufacturers like Broadcom, MediaTek, SigmaTel, etc.
• Cross-platform application programming interface for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics such as OpenGL/EGL
• Window management solutions both custom and open such as X11, Wayland, etc.
• Cross device/distribution dependency management
• Audio/Video pipeline management using technologies such as GStreamer
• Large code base exposure such as Webkit, WPE, Chromium, Cobalt
• DRM/CDM
• Familiarity with multiple embedded operating systems
• Familiarity with toolchains and cross-compiler use

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