CODEC Video Compression Engineer/Developer
Neros Technologies5 months ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement dual CPU/GPU hybrid video compression encoder architectures combining software and hardware encoding engines.
- Develop and optimize video compression algorithms in C/C++, Assembly, Rust, or similar languages.
- Implement and optimize real-time encoder and decoder pipelines.
- Analyze and improve codec speed, visual quality, and efficiency across CPUs and GPUs.
- Implement error handling and conduct benchmarking, debugging, and quality-assurance testing.
- Develop objective and subjective metrics for evaluating codec performance.
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate codec solutions into products using high-level synthesis and FPGA/ASIC design flows.
- Monitor emerging video standards, compression techniques, and industry trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Solid understanding of video compression theory, including motion estimation, transform coding, MC DCT, VBSMC, entropy coding, and rate control.
- Experience implementing software and hardware codecs that encode and decode video according to a specific compression format.
- Experience with SystemVerilog and HLS/C++.
- Understanding of H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266, VP9, AV1, and rate-control algorithms.
- Experience with FPGA, ASIC, DSP, GPU, NVENC, NVDEC, CUDA, Vulkan, or OpenCL implementations.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and experience with SSE, AVX, and NEON SIMD optimizations.
- Experience with multithreaded programming, performance profiling, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Experience with front-end development for control of performance-critical code.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively.
- Backend experience with FFmpeg or GStreamer is a plus.
- Knowledge of MP4, MKV, or MPEG-TS container formats is a plus.
- Experience with ML-based video enhancement or compression is a plus.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are part of total compensation.
- The role is with a defense technology company building unmanned systems and working on real-time wireless video products.
About Neros Technologies
Neros Technologies designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned systems—air vehicles, autonomy software, and related strike and sensing payloads—for U.S. and allied defense customers. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, focuses on combat-tested drones built and iterated at scale to close the gap between design and deployment. Its work spans GPS-denied navigation, state estimation, guidance, and manufacturing to help rebuild the U.S. drone industrial base.