Software Engineer (Video Streaming)

• The ability to monitor and assist our vehicles remotely plays a key role in our business strategy. As a Software Engineer, Video Streaming you will work on our in-house Teleoperations platform
• You will work with a diverse team of engineers to build the core communication system as well as the cloud platform to connect vehicles and operators
• This position involves broad technical understanding in networking algorithms, bandwidth estimation, rate control, computer networking, and real-time communication systems. The team is expected to deliver reliable solutions and license to 3rd party teleoperation usages
• Design and implement an efficient pipeline with state-of-the-art video streaming techniques to deliver high priority real-time data stream
• Build an offline streaming simulation/emulation framework that can help to iterate the video streaming algorithm and predict online performance
• Test systems in real-world environments, gather feedback and drive innovation
• Work with XFN team for on-road network metric collection

Benefits

• Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
• Company stock options
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance- Familiar with networking protocols such as TCP/IP, socket programming and congestion control etc
• Strong communication skills
• PhD in Computer Science or closely related field or BS/MS in Computer Science or closely related field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience
• Proficient in C/C++ and/or Go
• Network simulation experience, e.g., network simulator 3
• Real road LTE network metric collection
• Video streaming framework experience, e.g., WebRTC
• Understanding of video codec such as VP8, VP9, H264/265 etc
• Comfortable with GPU programming