Principal Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. This role falls within the Core Media Technology (CMT) team in DEEP&T’s Media Engineering organization. CMT is one of our Research and Advanced Development teams whose focus is in the domain of video and audio processing that drives innovative enhancements into our video processing platform for live and on-demand video streaming delivery. Our work involves optimizing media processing, introducing new media codecs, developing quality and performance assessment frameworks and conducting innovative media R&D towards future platform capabilities for the purposes of achieving velocity, scale, and efficiency through an optimized media platform as well as redefining storytelling through innovative media experiences.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years of related work experience
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Deep Expertise in video streaming technologies (e.g. codecs, streaming packagers and distribution, playback algorithms, etc)
Strong background in applying deep learning techniques to media processing tasks
In-depth understanding and experience with multimedia frameworks
A proven track record of success and demonstrable experience in research and advanced development in video coding, media processing or adjacent fields
A proven track record of IP generation

Nice To Haves

Expertise in video coding standards such as AV1, AV2, AVC, HEVC, VVC
Knowledge and experience in C/C++
Knowledge and experience with Python
Applied knowledge of Media Metadata and Processing
gStreamer Media Framework
Experience deploying and optimizing AI/ML models and frameworks
Experience with building web-apps/dashboards for data visualization
Experience with working with Dockers
Web service development, REST APIs, XML/JSON
Release management, continuous integration, Git/GitHub
High load, highly scalable and distributed applications

Responsibilities

Conduct multidisciplinary research and development in video streaming for both live and on-demand use cases.
Participate in multimedia standardizations such as AOM, MPEG, IETF, and VQEG, and connect with academic research groups and conferences.
Design media processing algorithms and software workflows for the purposes of achieving velocity, scale, and efficiency to further optimize our media platform.
Collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as our studios, streaming backend, streaming delivery, client, and product teams to investigate, develop and adopt cutting-edge technologies and specifications into production.
Conduct innovative research and advanced development involving advanced computer vision algorithms and applied ML/AI techniques to address tasks such as media enhancement, understanding, analysis, compression, and enhancing storytelling through innovative media experiences.
Influence various codebases ensuring compatibility of practices, driving technical standards contributing to architectural best practices across the organization.
Lead coordination for large projects and facilitate cross-team collaboration.
Own complex and innovative projects that span multiple teams and components.
Lead documentation, architecture, and stakeholder engagement.
Drive innovation and technical strategy.
Coordinate and collaborate with global CMT team resources.

Benefits

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

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