SENIOR C++ PLAYBACK ENGINEER (AVM - C++ - 20251105)

The SENIOR C++ PLAYBACK ENGINEER will design and develop a native C++ player usingGStreamer which provides encrypted playback on 1 or more Smart TV, Set Top Box, orGaming Console platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain C++ based Streaming Video Players to run on Smart TV, Set Top Box, or Gaming Console platforms.
• Build video player plugins using GStreamer
• Research and evaluate potential technical solutions
• Make design decisions on video player architecture
• Enable Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine DRM protection for video player plugins
• Optimize video playback performance, time-to-first-frame (TTFF)
• Maintain technical documentation
• Work and collaborate in teams with engineers, testers, product managers, etc.
• Work in an Agile, iterative development process
• Committing to deliver timely results

Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in C/C++ programming
• Experience in low level native TV platform application development (NDK) such as Roku/FireTV/tvOS/WebTV
• Experience with projects that target high refresh rate performance
• Familiarity with open source multimedia projects like ffmpeg, Gstreamer, and WebRTC
• Experience building a streaming video player (in C++ preferred)
• Strong experience in video streaming protocols such as HLS, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG DASH, CMAF, RTP, RTMP, Timed Metadata (ID3)
• Familiarity with technologies for developing on Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Gaming Consoles such as Samsung Tizen, Vizio, Hisense, XBOX, PlayStation or others
• Knowledge of MultiLingual Text Tracks for Closed Captioning and SubTitle Formats such as WebVTT
• Knowledge of MultiLingual Audio and Audio Description Tracks
• Strong experience with DRM protection schemes such as MPEG Common Encryption, FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady.
• Basic understanding of VOD and linear video workflows using ingest, transmuxing, encoding, SSAI, packaging, and playout.
• Basic understanding of streaming media in a multi-CDN environment.
• Strong experience with adaptive bit rate (ABR) ladder algorithms.
• REST API usage and development.
• Basic understanding of modern video codecs like HEVC, H.265K, H.264, VP8, VP9, AV1
• Knowledge of Dolby Vision and HDR
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Understand how to write clean and testable code
• Able to work on a large scope project from start to finish
• Be capable of being an owner of a specific component or feature
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master
• Unity is nice to have