Video Software Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

At Meta, we're developing innovative products that enable people to connect with loved ones and push the boundaries of computing platforms. As an AI Software engineer in Video, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of products, including Messenger, Video, Groups, News Feed, Search, AR/VR, and GenAI, building advanced video solutions that drive billions of interactions per day. You'll help create new features, improve existing products, and develop immersive video experiences that bring people closer together. By joining our team, you'll be part of creating products used by billions of people worldwide, solving complex technical problems, and shaping the future of online connection and community.
Responsibilities
Research, develop, and troubleshoot real time communication systems, related to video and audio codecs, cameras, displays, and microphones
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand features, operation, and specify enhancements
• Designing AI/ML-based compression algorithms to reduce the platform's compute footprint, while improving end-user experience
• Optimize and improve video codec efficiency, encode rate control, processing speed, video pre/post-processing, and error resilience
• Debug and diagnose quality of end-to-end video experience on lossy networks in real-time communication scenarios
• Define the video optimization roadmap for both low-end and high-end networks and devices
• Lead the definition and implementation of the media processing pipeline
• Continuously improve the efficiency of the automated test tooling by leveraging the internal automated test infrastructure
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field
• 5+ years software development experience in industry settings or PhD with 2+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience in computer vision, video/image codecs, video/image processing or a relevant domain
• Experience in neural video/image compression and AI research
• Experience with computer vision, video/image codecs, or video/image processing
• Experience in C/C++ multithreaded programming
• Experience leading large or complex projects, defined goals and delivered milestones by leading teams
Preferred Qualifications
• Leveraging AI-based enhancement tools that complement standard video-codecs (AV1)
• Knowledge of multimedia stack, including containers, codecs, and AV synchronization
• Experience developing algorithms to improve video quality for calling and video conferencing
• Using ML-based quality metrics and metadata for large-scale quality evaluation
• Experience with state-of-the-art video codecs e.g. H.264/AVC, HEVC, AV1, AV2
• benchmarking of traditional and novel audio/video processing use cases
• Full end-to-end neural-compression techniques at scale, for FoA verticals (Calling, VOD etc.)
• Experience designing power-efficient software for mobile or embedded systems
• Experience with computer vision, video/image codecs, or video/image processing
• Industry experience in Video-on-Demand, RTC, or videos at scale
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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