Principal/Senior Researcher - Video Standards

Business Unit Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG) is responsible for promoting the company's cloud and industry Internet strategy. CSIG explores the interactions between users and industries to create innovative solutions for smart industries via technological advancements such as cloud, AI, and network security. While driving the digitalization of retail, medical, education, transportation and other industries, CSIG helps companies serve users in smarter ways, building a new ecosystem of intelligent industries that connect users and businesses.
What the Role Entails About the job: We are inviting motivated researchers and engineers to join our team in Bay Area. The team works on developing cutting edge technologies in multimedia data compression, processing, transmission, analysis and beyond. Some example areas include (but not limited to) video compression algorithms, future video coding standards, learned image and video compression, VR and 360 video coding and transmission, intelligent visual data analysis and representation, future immersive data compression and processing (e.g. point cloud, light field, etc.)
Qualifications

Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, math, statistics, or related fields
5+ years of related working experience
Publications at top‑tier peer‑reviewed conferences
Interest and experience in video compression and video coding standards
Strong coding skills in C/C++
Ability to communicate/collaborate with other researchers/engineers
Ability to think out of box
Preferred Qualifications

Proven track record of making contributions to video coding standards
Good understanding of state‑of‑the‑art video compression algorithms
Working experience on HEVC, VVC, VP9, AV1, AVS3
Working experience on Joint Exploration Model by JVET
Experience on learned image and video compression
Responsibilities

Research, design, implement, and optimize novel algorithms/models that lead to improved video compression performance in future or existing codecs.
Summarize the developed algorithms into academic papers, standard contributions and patent applications.
Represent company in standard meetings and academic conferences.
Location: US-California-Palo Alto
Expected base pay range: $122,500.00 to $229,700.00 per year.
Benefits include sign‑on payment, relocation package, restricted stock units, medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, 401(k) plan, up to 15–25 vacation days per year, up to 13 holidays, and up to 10 paid sick leave days.
Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent: As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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