News Break defines a new way for users to engage with local news. Since its founding in 2015, it has grown by leaps and bounds. Weβre the nation's largest intelligent local news platform!
News Break is ranked the #1 news app on both iOS and Android in 2020 with 45M+ monthly active users.
We're a series-C startup headquartered at Mountain View, California.
For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
About the Role
Responsibilities
- Building Backend/Mobile multimedia processing functionalities, including media capture, audio/video synchronization, real-time communication and performance tuning.
- Enabling hardware accelerated video processing with GPU and display.
- Optimizing and improving video codec efficiency, compression, speed, video, pre/post-processing and quality.
- Debugging and diagnosing quality of end-to-end video experience on lossy network in real-time communication scenarios.
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Understanding of the client-server multimedia stack, including containers, codecs, and AV synchronization.
- Experience with image/video/multimedia processing tech stacks: ffmpeg, opencv
- Experience with video rendering
- Experience with video streaming
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with video codec standards like H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8/VP9.
- Experience with software codecs (OpenH264/x264/x265/libvpx).
- Experience with drafting or modifying video encoders.
- Experience in WebRTC, building FFmpeg filters and FFmpeg APIs.
Benefits
We provide highly competitive compensation package including base salary, bonuses, and stock options. Benefits include great Medical, Dental and Vision. A flat organization and family-like culture makes this a perfect environment to make huge impact on our product and grow your skill set.