Media Systems Validation Engineer
BPCS, Comprehensive marketing solutions, ltd.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per year
About the role
- Design, implement, and expand telemetry events, schemas, and probes across video and image codec pipelines.
- Increase telemetry depth for advanced codec profiles, color formats, and configuration variations.
- Define and track reliability metrics, performance indicators, and failure signals across encode and decode paths.
- Analyze large-scale telemetry and validation data to identify trends, regressions, and rare or profile-specific issues.
- Build and enhance dashboards that surface actionable health insights for engineering and validation teams.
- Author, extend, and maintain hardware validation tests for video encoders, including support for modern codecs.
- Expand encoder test coverage beyond basic bitstream validation to include functional correctness, feature enablement, and reliability scenarios.
- Integrate advanced hardware validation scenarios into certification workflows to reduce partner failures and friction.
- Collaborate closely with codec engineers, validation teams, and hardware partners to close gaps in coverage and compliance.
- Drive improvements that measurably increase codec reliability, driver readiness, and ecosystem quality.
Requirements
- 4–6+ years of codec and media pipeline experience, working with modern video/image codecs (e.g., H.264, HEVC, AV1 or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of codec internals, including encode and decode paths, profile variations, color formats (8-bit / 10-bit, 4:2:0 / 4:2:2 / 4:4:4), and common failure modes.
- 3–5 years of experience developing video or hardware validation tests on real hardware (GPU, SoC, or accelerator).
- Hands-on experience validating codec features, hardware enablement, correctness, and performance behavior.
- 4+ years of telemetry or observability engineering experience, including defining events, metrics, instrumentation, and dashboards.
- Proven ability to analyze large datasets to identify root causes, reliability gaps, and regression patterns.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous signals into concrete engineering actions.
- Experience collaborating across engineering, validation, and partner teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401k program
- Competitive PTO offerings
- Parental Leave
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
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Hard Skills & Tools
video codecsimage codecsH.264HEVCAV1telemetry engineeringhardware validation testsdata analysisperformance metricsfailure signals
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationanalytical thinkingattention to detail