Software Engineer, Video AI/ML Specialist jobs in United States
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Meta · 11 hours ago

Software Engineer, Video AI/ML Specialist

positionMenlo Park, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
date7+ years exp

Meta is developing innovative products that enable people to connect with loved ones and push the boundaries of computing platforms. As a Video Software Engineer, you'll work on building cutting-edge video solutions that drive billions of interactions per day, creating new features and improving existing products.

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Responsibilities

Research, develop, and troubleshoot real time communication systems, related to video and audio codecs, cameras, displays, and microphones
Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand features, operation, and specify enhancements
Optimize and improve video codec efficiency, encode rate control, processing speed, video pre/post-processing, and error resilience
Debugging and diagnosing quality of end-to-end video experience on lossy networks in real-time communication scenarios
Define the video optimization roadmap for both low-end and high-end networks and devices
Lead the definition and implementation of media processing pipeline
Continuously improve the efficiency of the automated test tooling by leveraging the internal automated test infrastructure

Qualification

C/C++ programmingVideo software engineeringNeural video compressionAI/ML algorithmsMultithreaded programmingVideo codecsComputer visionQuality evaluation metricsProject leadershipSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years software development experience in industry settings or PhD with 4+ years of experience
3+ years relevant video software engineering experience in industry settings
Experience in C/C++ multithreaded programming
Experience leading large or complex projects, defined goals and delivered milestones by leading teams

Preferred

Full end-to-end neural-compression techniques at scale, for FoA verticals (Calling, VOD etc.)
Expertise in neural video/image compression, AI research
Designing AI/ML-based compression algorithms to reduce the platform's compute footprint, while improving end-user experience
Using ML-based quality metrics and metadata for large-scale quality evaluation
Benchmarking of traditional and novel audio/video processing use cases
Knowledge of multimedia stack, including containers, codecs, and AV synchronization
Leveraging AI-based enhancement tools that complement standard video-codecs (AV1)
Experience with computer vision, video/image codecs, or video/image processing
Experience with state-of-the-art video codecs e.g. H.264/AVC, HEVC, AV1, AV2
Industry experience in Video-on-Demand, RTC, or videos at scale
Experience designing power-efficient software for mobile or embedded systems
Intelligent algorithms to improve video quality for calling and video conferencing

Benefits

Bonus
Equity
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Company

Meta

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Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
dateFounded in 2004
location
Menlo Park, CA, US
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.metacareers.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Kathryn Glickman
Director, CEO Communications
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Christine Lu
CTO Business Engineering NA
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