Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Senior Software Engineer - Video -- Flip Video

The Cisco Consumer Business Group sells home networking and networked entertainment products and services under the Cisco, Linksys, Linksys by Cisco, Flip Video and Network Magic family names. Cisco products enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social, and more visual.

Flip Video exemplifies Cisco’s passion for video. The best-selling brand makes video simple, accessible and fun, allowing users to easily capture and edit videos and then share them instantly with friends, family and on popular video-sharing Web sites.

The challenges involved in developing a simple, intuitive, yet high quality product reach beyond the hardware of the camcorder to also envelope the software ecosystem which completes the Flip Video experience. Our software vision is all about making the capturing, editing and sharing of visual experiences as easy and as fun as possible.

We have opportunities for passionate and talented software engineers to join our growing development family in downtown San Francisco. The right candidates would work with us to create high-quality, cutting-edge software products enabling our customers to have the best possible experience creating and sharing video. The main software components of the Flip Video experience are the desktop application (for Mac and PC platforms) that enables our users to save, view, manipulate and share their video and the surrounding online software ecosystem that the client utilizes. As part of Pure Digital Technologies, you will be involved in the design, implementation and on-going improvement of our key software offerings. This is a full-time, on-site position.

On top of the opportunity to work on amazingly cool, cutting edge, consumer electronics software, we’re even fun to work with.

Appropriate candidates will have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• A passion for building top-of-the-line software
• Significant experience using QuickTime to develop multimedia applications on the Mac
• 3 or more years of consumer software development in C++
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BSCS, BSEE or equivalent

An ideal candidate would also have one or more of the following:
• MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with cross-platform development, especially with the Qt framework
• Experience with streaming video
• Experience developing client/server/web interactions

Based in San Francisco, the revolutionary Flip Video family of camcorders ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. Flip Video camcorders are the world's first with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and seamless video uploading to YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video and other video sharing sites.

As part of its Flip Video Spotlight Program, the company pledged to deliver 1 million camcorders to help non-profits use the power of video to change the world. Flip Video camcorders are available in over 10,000 retail locations including Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Sears, Kmart, and TheFlip.com.

Senior Software Engineer - QuickTime -- Flip Video

It's an exciting time to work at Cisco. Every day we connect people to the network and make it come to life. The Cisco Consumer Business Group sells home networking and networked entertainment products and services under the Cisco, Linksys, Linksys by Cisco, Flip Video and Network Magic family names. Cisco products enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social, and more visual.

Flip Video exemplifies Cisco’s passion for video. The best-selling brand makes video simple, accessible and fun, allowing users to easily capture and edit videos and then share them instantly with friends, family and on popular video-sharing Web sites.

The challenges involved in developing a simple, intuitive, yet high quality product reach beyond the hardware of the camcorder to also envelope the software ecosystem which completes the Flip Video experience. Our software vision is all about making the capturing, editing and sharing of visual experiences as easy and as fun as possible.

We have opportunities for passionate and talented software engineers to join our growing development family in downtown San Francisco. The right candidates would work with us to create high-quality, cutting-edge software products enabling our customers to have the best possible experience creating and sharing video. The main software components of the Flip Video experience are the desktop application (for Mac and PC platforms) that enables our users to save, view, manipulate and share their video and the surrounding online software ecosystem that the client utilizes. As part of Pure Digital Technologies, you will be involved in the design, implementation and on-going improvement of our key software offerings. This is a full-time, on-site position.

On top of the opportunity to work on amazingly cool, cutting edge, consumer electronics software, we’re even fun to work with.

Appropriate candidates will have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• A passion for building top-of-the-line software
• Significant experience using QuickTime to develop multimedia applications on the Mac
• 3 or more years of consumer software development in C++
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BSCS, BSEE or equivalent

An ideal candidate would also have one or more of the following:
• MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with cross-platform development, especially with the Qt framework
• Experience with streaming video
• Experience developing client/server/web interactions

Video Quality Firmware Engineer -- Flip Video

The Cisco Consumer Business Group sells home networking and networked entertainment products and services under the Cisco, Linksys, Linksys by Cisco, Flip Video and Network Magic family names. Cisco products enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social, and more visual.

Flip Video exemplifies Cisco’s passion for video. The best-selling brand makes video simple, accessible and fun, allowing users to easily capture and edit videos and then share them instantly with friends, family and on popular video-sharing Web sites.

Description:
This individual will work with a team of firmware, image quality and electrical engineers to deliver the functionality of multiple Flip products. Development is in embedded C on MIPS with ThreadX OS, working with a variety of interesting devices controlling camera capabilities.

This position is based in our Sunnyvale office.

Responsibilities:
• Create robust, maintainable, embedded C code to enable camera functionality
• Improve the environment for current system development via tools and process innovation
• Refactor and improve current code to enable new functionality, performance or maintainability
• Use input from external sources to turn imperfect specifications into more perfect products
• Work closely with EE and Image Quality teams to quickly derive high-quality solutions
• Work closely with manufacturing partners in device bring-up and validation

Requirements:
• 8 or more years experience in embedded firmware development
• High level of facility with RT/multi-threaded embedded systems
• Strong C embedded development with good architectural skills
• Internalization of software development best practices
• Occasional travel to Asia is likely

Based in San Francisco, the revolutionary Flip Video family of camcorders ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. Flip Video camcorders are the world's first with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and seamless video uploading to YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video and other video sharing sites.

As part of its Flip Video Spotlight Program, the company pledged to deliver 1 million camcorders to help non-profits use the power of video to change the world. Flip Video camcorders are available in over 10,000 retail locations including Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Sears, Kmart, and TheFlip.com.

Coming Soon! Positions with Flip Video

Within the next couple of days I expect to start recruiting on positions for The Flip, I'll share these opportunities here as they come in.