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