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Associate Researcher - Video Streaming
Hulu
Beijing, , China
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Hulu is a premium streaming TV destination that seeks to captivate and connect viewers with the stories they love. We create amazing experiences that celebrate the best of entertainment and technology. We’re looking for great people who are passionate about redefining TV through innovation, unconventional thinking and embracing fun. It’s a mission that takes some serious smarts, intense curiosity and determination to be the best. Come be part of the team that’s powering play.
SUMMARY
Content is core to Hulu’s business and success. At Hulu we use technology to build lasting, large-scale solutions to power a service used by tens of millions of users, accessing videos across a large footprint of devices. The video optimization team strives to produce the highest quality video delivery experience over the Internet. The team is responsible for innovating and engineering of smooth video streaming services. Video optimization team is seeking for an associate researcher who will be an exceptional addition to our team. As an associate researcher in video optimization team, you will work together with a group of talented people to benchmark, investigate and improve hulu’s core streaming experience. The right person for this role is a passionate video streaming pioneer and a precise data-driven researcher, is intellectually curious and innovative. If you are someone who wants to play a key role in innovating world-class video streaming experience, this will be a great opportunity for you.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
• Apply state of the art statistics / data mining / machine learning methodologies to discover & solve real world video streaming problems, optimize end-to-end user experience.
• Relentlessly dig into hulu's internet scale streaming Quality of Experience (QoE) data, get deep insights of key factors impacting streaming experience and identify practical directions for improvements.
• Design offline & online experiments to verify and prove enhancements.
• Provide guidance in the design and re-architect of a large scale streaming QoE monitor & analysis system.
• Collaborate with internal team members and external stakeholders to continuously optimize hulu’s streaming service and application.
• Follow industry and academic trends, invent and fast iterate on novel solutions to challenging video streaming related problems.
WHAT TO BRING
• MS or PhD in Computer Science / Engineering / Statistics or related majors.
• 2+ years of relevant research experience, experience of video streaming / CDN optimization / multiple bitrate algorithm / QoE improvement is preferred.
• Familiarity with Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ or any other OOP language.
• Solid data mining skills and experience, comfortable with working with huge amount of data and able to deliver value using not perfect data.
• Passion about finding deep root cause of problem and continuously improving user experience.
• Great communication and collaboration skills, have strong teamwork ethic.
NICE-TO-HAVES
• Deep knowledge on networking / video standards and technologies.