Principal/Senior Researcher - Video Standards

Tencent•Palo Alto, CA

8d•$158,300 - $297,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.)

Requirements

Master 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

Nice To Haves

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