Amazon is hiring: Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, AWS Elemental,

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on video compression to build advanced video processing functions. As a Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, you will write great code to process our customers’ video and metadata. You’ll work on cutting edge compression technologies like VVC, AV1, HEVC, high dynamic range video, and enhancement filters.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Improving the quality per bit in our home-grown video encoders.
• Design and incorporate ML components to improve video quality and enable new use cases for our customers.
• Design and implement improved video filters, whether this be a scaler, deinterlacer, or a brand new perceptual filter.
• Improve compute performance of our video processing.

About the team: We are the Elemental Video Engine team, responsible for everything that happens to a pixel in the AWS media services MediaLive and MediaConvert, as well as AWS Elemental appliances.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5+ years of video codec development experience, particularly AV1, HEVC, H.264 and MPEG2

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with SSE/AVX2/NEON is a plus
- Practical experience applying ML to solve complex problems in an applied environment
- Experience designing and implementing video filters.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.