Job Description

The XR team at Facebook Reality Labs is helping people around the world come together and connect through world-class Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies. As a Software Engineer for Video/Multimedia, you will be a member of our XR Graphics organization, taking a lead in compression technologies for remote rendering to enable cutting edge visual experiences on compute constrained AR/VR devices. You will work with a highly cross-functional team to develop state of the art compression pipelines to achieve high quality, low latency experiences that are resilient to network conditions.

Software Engineer, Video/Multimedia (XR Graphics) Responsibilities:

• Building multimedia processing pipelines, including container parsing, format support, codecs, media capture, audio/video synchronization, real-time communication, validation and tuning
• Enabling hardware accelerated video processing, drivers for hardware accelerated codec blocks, buffer sharing and synchronization with GPU and display
• 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• BSc in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
• Proficiency in C/C++, strong software development, optimization, and debugging skills
• 4+ years of experience with H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8/VP9 video codec standards
• Understanding of the client multimedia stack, including containers, codecs, and AV synchronization
• Experience with codec implementations like OpenH264/x264/x265/libvpx
• Experience with drafting or modifying video encoders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing cross-platform software for Linux, Mac and Windows
• Experience in WebRTC
• Experience in video with networking
• Experience with software services, web and cloud technologies
• Experience with hardware accelerated video processing
• Experience building FFmpeg filters or have worked with FFmpeg APIs
• Experience with Open CL, DirectX and Intel Media SDK programming