Senior Multimedia Engineer (GStreamer)
RemoteUkraine
UkraineRemoteFull TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Design, develop, and maintain multimedia middleware components, specifically building, integrating, and optimizing GStreamer-based audio/video pipelines. Integrate media components with user-space applications and system services while debugging complex issues related to performance, stability, and synchronization. Collaborate with hardware, platform, and application teams to support board bring-up and hardware validation for audio/video subsystems. Contribute to architecture decisions through technical discussions.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience in multimedia or system-level environments
- Strong hands-on experience with GStreamer at the developer level (must-have), including: building and debugging complex media pipelines working with elements, pads, caps, and plugins diagnosing latency, synchronization, and performance issues
- Strong programming skills in C++ and Java for system-level or multimedia applications
- Solid understanding of audio and video streaming protocols (RTP, RTSP, etc.)
- Experience working with video and audio codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9, AAC, Opus, etc.)
- Experience with Video4Linux (V4L2)
- Experience with embedded platforms (Embedded Linux and/or Embedded Android)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP, UDP, HTTP
- Ability to debug complex issues across software layers (middleware, OS, hardware interaction)
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Embedded Android / Android BSP (AOSP)
- Familiarity with multimedia and graphics systems such as: Android Audio / SurfaceFlinger
- Experience with streaming technologies such as WebRTC
- Experience with camera integration or camera subsystem customization
- Knowledge of hardware-accelerated media pipelines
- Scripting experience (Bash, Python)
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