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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We're a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that's critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department OverviewJoin our dynamic, agile R&D team as an Senior Full-Stack Engineer, where you will serve as a key architectural driver for our Evidence Management features, deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
You will be responsible for the end-to-end success of major features-from proposing architectural approaches for video extraction to defining service contracts for AI-generated metadata. While primarily an Individual Contributor (IC), you will take on Technical Lead responsibilities for specific initiatives, actively mentoring peers and elevating our engineering standards. We expect a transformative approach, leveraging AI methodologies to optimize the development pipeline and ship high-performance media tools.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Ownership: Propose and facilitate technical discussions to arrive at agreed-upon architectural plans for video trimming, transcription, and packaging services.

• Contract Definition & Coordination: Own the APIs for the Evidence Domain, coordinating with external consumer teams to ensure seamless integration and data integrity.

• Feature Grooming & Delegation: Groom stories from Product Management requirements and break down tasks for the team to enable rapid, parallel development.

• Hands-on Media Manipulation: Lead the implementation of frame-accurate video trimming, cropping, and snapshot extraction logic using libraries such as FFmpeg or GStreamer.

• High-Performance UI/UX: Lead the development of the Video Trim Editor and extraction logic, ensuring frame-accurate performance and efficient GCS data handling in the browser.

• Quality & Review: Conduct thorough code reviews, serving as a trusted source to catch edge cases, security gaps, and performance bottlenecks.

• Pipeline Transformation: Actively contribute to development pipeline improvements (e.g., automated guardrails, RAG systems) to significantly cut down PR cycle time.

• AI Integration: Participate in shipping LLM-powered features (e.g., scene description and object detection), monitoring live metrics to refine accuracy.

Requirements:

• Experience & Impact: Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years of progressive technical experience, demonstrating successful ownership of complex, distributed features.

• Media Processing Mastery: Practical experience with media processing tools (e.g., FFmpeg) to perform lossless trimming, transcoding, and frame-accurate media manipulation.

• GCP Proficiency: Proven ability to deploy and manage applications on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage).

• API/Contract Ownership: Extensive experience designing robust service contracts and managing dependencies between Python/Java microservices.

• Frontend Expertise: Professional experience with Angular 17+ (specifically Signals) for developing highly performant, real-time user experiences.

• System Integrity: Deep understanding of scale challenges, fault-tolerant design, and the ability to anticipate and address stress points within media-heavy architectures.

• Transformative Mindset: Practical experience leveraging modern AI tools for coding, architectural trade-offs, and code analysis.

Target Base Salary Range:$135,000 USD - $155,000 USD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate

Note: Candidate must be in the Chicago office 2 days per week.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 4+ years of full stack engineering and Python experience

• AND 2+ years of Java experience

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.

Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

Our U.S.Benefitsinclude:

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical, Dental, Visionbenefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• GenerousPaidTime Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• PaidParental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you'd like to join our team but feel that you don't quite meet all of the preferred skills, we'd still love to hear why you think you'd be a great addition to our team.

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