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Video Engineer
Netflix
Los Gatos, CA, United States
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We can all agree that life is too short to watch low quality video. Netflix users stream over one billion hours of video every month, and our Video Engineers are tasked with giving those users the highest quality experience possible. The typical Netflix user - who is lost in the romance of Rick and Ilsa, sharing those last moments of an innocent world as the Nazis march into Paris - isn't concerned about blocky compression, banding or scaling artifacts. But you are…
Encoding artifacts pull you out of even your favorite scenes. In fact, people don’t always like watching movies with you, because you’re guilty of pausing just to complain about the 40 ms of A/V sync drift - and yet you secretly revel in the splendor of a broken GOP, when the subject of one sequence blends into the movement of another, and creates something fantastic that will only exist in that moment and maybe never again. You are one of us. We have been looking for you.
As a Netflix Video Engineer on the Encoding Technology team, you will work closely with our video software engineers to make improvements to our ingest and parallel encoding systems, AVC and HEVC recipes and implement new features related to ultra HD, high dynamic range, extended color gamut and high frame rates. Your broad expertise in video technology will guide rapid decision-making in these areas and continue to grow as called-for by the challenges of the day.
The responsibilities of a Netflix Video Engineer include:
• Investigating new technologies around video and audio compression.
• Partnering with internal teams to troubleshoot problem streams (including VC-1, H264 and H265 bitstreams, DRM encryption and DASH packaging).
• Quantifying gains in perceptual visual quality via new encoding profiles, recipes and enhancements.
More about you:
• You speak passionately on the topic of film and/or television, and hold informed viewpoints on the future technologies of each.
• You prefer watching on one Netflix-enabled device over another - and can explain why.
• You have opinions about what Netflix does well, and what could be done better - and will express them openly.
• You are comfortable at the Linux command line, as well as Windows and Mac environments.
• You possess a working knowledge of H.264/AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 TS, Apple ProRes, JPEG2000 and DPX compression techniques.
• You are familiar with some or all of the following tools: FFmpeg, x264, AviSynth, MySQL, Java, Python and/or Bash scripting.
• You are constantly motivated by the opportunity to improve and to drive business-critical decisions based on what is best for the product and the end-user.
If this describes you, or the person you aspire to be, please apply now.<!---->