Staff Software Developer, Video Codec Specialist, Open Codecs

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Remote location(s): Canada.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.

• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

• Experience programming in C and/or C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and/or cross-business projects.
• 3 years of relevant experience in one of the following: Video Compression, Computer Vision, Signal/Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Real-time communication, Probability Theory, and/or Applied Mathematics.
• Experiences of contributing to international video compression standards, and developing intellectual property portfolio.

About the job

The Open Codecs team at Google advances the media compression technology for Google and the industry. Our mission is to make the best compression technology universally available, enabling the efficient delivery of video, image, audio, and cross-reality over the internet. Experts on the team have been the driving power behind open source projects (e.g., VP9, AV1, AV2, WebP, AVIF, Lyra, and Draco). The team is deeply proud that the technology developed by the team has helped billions of people around the world connect, work, study, and live.

People watch and produce hours of media content every day. Compression technology is at the heart to enable the delivery of rich media experiences over the internet. As a Staff Software Engineer, Video Codec Specialist, you will develop algorithms that go into the next-generation international standard. Your innovations will help drive the entire industry forward and make media experiences better for billions of users around the world every day.

At its heart, Google is a research company advancing research across a broad range of topics, addressing key scientific or engineering questions or developing fundamentally new capabilities. The advances will result in product and service innovations helpful for users around the world and change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.

Responsibilities

• Innovate new technologies and algorithms that turn today's in video compression.
• Prototype developed algorithms while addressing the challenges of complexity.
• Work with experts around the world to standardize technology into a next-generation standard.
• Disseminate knowledge through papers, patents, standard proposals, and talks.
• Generate intellectual property in the form of patents.

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