Staff Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: VIZIO, Inc
Location: Dallas, TX 75217
Description:
About the Team
The team is developing middleware, media and application development kit for html and native applications for Vizio tv platform. We work with our product, vendor and app partners to make high quality products for our customers.
What You Will Do
About You
About VIZIO
We are Beautifully Simple.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.
The team is developing middleware, media and application development kit for html and native applications for Vizio tv platform. We work with our product, vendor and app partners to make high quality products for our customers.
What You Will Do
- Contribute to Review product requirements and create technical requirements.
- Contribute to Design and architect new products, understand and improving existing software.
- Create prototype, design documents and technical tasks, suggest implementation plan.
- Develop core components, code review to ensure implemented as per the design.
- Develop tools to measure the quality of products and finding defects automatically.
- By 3 months you will be able to triage bugs and implement feature details by cooperating with other teams to gather information and expected behaviors.
- By 6 months you will understand media stack architecture in detail and what improvements need to be made for a better user experience.
- By 1 year you will be a feature owner that drives development of new features.
About You
- 6+ years of relevant experience in architecture & design, prototyping, software development & implementation plan, code review and unit testing for consumer electronic devices.
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Electronics or equivalent field.
- Proficient in C, C++/C++11, JavaScript, JSON.
- Multi-threading, Cmake build system, Cross compilation, Linux understanding (process, filesystem, permission, memory), Linux shared library analysis, Linux IPC/message queues, Parse & analyze journald logs, Debug core dump files, Troubleshooting.
- Boost ASIO, Linux boot-up, Linux interprocess communication, Linux Services/Daemon, Socket Programming, OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design), C++ 14 & 17 features (std::optional, std::async etc.)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Effective communication, Convey ideas clearly in short-time.
- Preferred: Adaptive media streaming client-side integration, Media playback, Multimedia frameworks - Gstreamer, ffmpeg, Wayland / directfb, Apple airplay media content delivery to player, Used PlayReady DRM 4.x
- Preferred: Websockets, REST API, SnapCraft, Docker, Conan pkg manager, Github actions, Cmake, make, meson build system, Unit test frameworks - Catch2, GoogleTest, BDD test framework, Rust, Python, Jira, Shell scripting
- Preferred: Basic understanding on cryptography, Basic network TCP/UDP packet filtering & analysis
About VIZIO
We are Beautifully Simple.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.