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.