Staff Software Engineer, Embedded System

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

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Job Description

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. 

The Embedded Devices R&D team is exploring opportunities to provide a best in class experience to NBCUniversal’s suite of direct to consumer applications. The team focus’ on gaming consoles, televisions, set-top boxes, among other devices. In this role a team member will contribute to the video playback technology ideas and implementations.

How you will make an impact:

• Brainstorming sessions on graphics technology opportunities
• Bringing proof of concept work to life on a wide variety of platforms
• Implement a proprietary OpenGL ES2.0 abstraction over a variety of graphics APIs including DirectX12, Metal, and other gaming console APIs.
• Port GLSL shaders for use in the proprietary OpenGL ES 2 abstraction.
• Implement compute pipelines across devices for optimal image rendering.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in graphics using OpenGL ES, Direct X, Cg, Vulkan, or Metal.
• C/C++ experience
• Experience with HLSL shaders, pixel, vertex & compute, along with the compilers fxc & dxc
• Familiar with the tools required to debug display & rendering issues
• Use of Windows as a primary development environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Passionate about graphics, you strive for applications to be both pixel perfect and performant.
• An active participant in collaborative, engaging, ideation sessions. Flexible enough to learn, adapt, and confident enough to educate others.

eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $130,000- $190,000

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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