Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, AWS Elemental, Elemental Video Engine

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

AWS Elemental is an Amazon Web Services company that combines deep video expertise with the power and scale of the cloud. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on video compression to build advanced video processing functions. As a Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, you will write great code to process our customers’ video and metadata. You’ll work on video technologies like VVC, AV1, HEVC, AVC, high dynamic range video, and enhancement filters.

You will solve new problems for our customers by utilizing ML and Generative AI. Your work will have a broad reach. Your code will process thousands of video streams around the world, and the final output will be enjoyed by millions of viewers.

• Improve the quality per bit in our home‑grown video encoders.
• Design and incorporate ML components to improve video quality and enable new use cases for our customers.
• Design and implement improved video filters, such as a scaler, deinterlacer, or a brand new perceptual filter.
• Improve compute performance of our video processing.

We are the Elemental Video Engine team, responsible for everything that happens to a pixel in the AWS media services Media Live and Media Convert, as well as AWS Elemental appliances. These services and appliances are trusted by some of the biggest names in the industry to reliably deliver the best video quality per bit. Our team is distributed across Portland, Oregon;
Vancouver, British Columbia; and San Jose, California. We are doers: we focus on solving customer problems, with all team members coming up with new ideas and implementing production code.

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience applying ML to solve complex problems.
• 5+ years of video/image processing/compression experience.
• Experience with SSE/AVX2/NEON is a plus.

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