Software Engineer, Video - Reality Labs - Meta

Reality Labs at Meta is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most, enjoy top-notch, wire-free VR, and push the future of computing platforms. We are a team of world-class experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of hardware, software and content.As a Software Engineer, Video on the Reality Labs team at Meta, you can help build new, innovative hardware and software that radically redefine the way people work, play and connect and especially how they hear the virtual and augmented world. What we build today could one day be the norm. So to be here today is to truly be at the heart of change and the frontier of what's to come. We're the people helping to define the metaverse. We may not have all the answers. But together, we're getting closer.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Software Engineer, Video - Reality Labs 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.
• Optimizing and improving video codec efficiency, encode rate control, 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 network 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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years software development experience including experience in image or video processing.
• Understanding of the multimedia stack, including containers, codecs, and AV synchronization.
• Experience in C/C++ multithreaded programming.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years experience with video codec standards like H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8/VP9, AV1
• Experience in RTC/WebRTC or video with networking.
• Experience with live streaming applications including one or more ingestion protocols such as RTMP, RIST, SRT, Zixi
• Experience with drafting or modifying video encoders
• Experience with technical broadcast contribution pipelines: Path (redundant, diverse), transcoding settings, captions/subtitles, etc.
• Experience building FFmpeg filters or have worked with FFmpeg APIs.
• Experience with OpenCL, DirectX and Intel Media SDK programming.
• Experience with Android Media SDK.
• Experience designing power-efficient software for mobile or embedded systems.