Senior Audio & Video Streaming Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Assist in the development and ongoing enhancement of embedded software components for cutting-edge audio/video streaming products.

• Develop, improve, and troubleshoot multimedia middleware and GStreamer-based media pipelines for embedded Linux and Android platforms.

• Focus on implementing new features, enhancing performance, improving stability, testing, and resolving bugs across multi-platform streaming solutions.

• Integrate media components, third-party applications, user-space services, and system-level software modules into the product framework.

• Collaborate with firmware, hardware, platform, and application engineering teams to clarify requirements, align technical solutions, and facilitate hardware/software integration.

• Analyze and address complex media issues related to latency, synchronization, playback stability, streaming quality, and overall system performance.

• Engage in technical design discussions and create documentation for architecture, implementation details, and significant engineering decisions.

• Generate and support validation and testing activities to ensure the reliability of firmware and high-quality products.

• Participate in code reviews and provide technical insights to fellow engineers.

• Uphold product, compliance, and reliability standards throughout the project lifecycle.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of software development experience in multimedia, embedded, firmware, or system-level environments.

• Extensive hands-on experience with GStreamer at the development level, including building, debugging, and optimizing audio/video media pipelines.

• Proficient programming skills in C++ or Java for embedded, system-level, or multimedia applications.

• Familiarity with Embedded Linux and/or Embedded Android platforms.

• Experience with Video4Linux / V4L2.

• Strong knowledge of audio and video streaming technologies and protocols, such as RTP and RTSP.

• Experience with video and audio codecs including H.264, H.265, VP9, or similar.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols, including TCP, UDP, and HTTP.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across software layers, encompassing middleware, operating system, and hardware interactions.

• Proficient in version control systems such as Git.

• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Experience in developing or debugging Android applications and services.

• Background in Android framework customization or platform-level Android development.

• Familiarity with Embedded Android / Android BSP / AOSP.

• Knowledge of VAAPI, FFmpeg, OpenMAX, OpenGL, Android Audio, or SurfaceFlinger.

• Experience with WebRTC.

• Experience in camera integration or customization of camera subsystems.

• Understanding of hardware-accelerated media pipelines.

• Scripting experience with Bash or Python.

• Experience in documenting firmware architecture or design specifications.

• Experience in conducting code reviews or providing technical guidance to junior engineers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Long-term project engagement.

• B2B-based cooperation model allowing discretion over the manner, timing, and location of service delivery, subject to project needs and agreed deliverables.

• Flexibility in work arrangements and environment.

• Collaboration with international engineering stakeholders and highly skilled specialists from various countries.

• Opportunity to deepen expertise in audio/video streaming, GStreamer-based media pipelines, embedded Linux/Android platforms, and real-time multimedia performance.

• Chance to influence technical decisions and contribute knowledge to products utilized globally.