Thursday, April 8, 2010

NEW!!! Lead Video DSP Engineer, Consumer TelePresence

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The Consumer TelePresence unit of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Business Group is looking for talented and motivated individuals to work with us to expand TelePresence into the home. TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience. TelePresence is one of the recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Technical Leader to contribute to the design, development and testing of next-generation video CODECs and features as well as maintain and augment the current-generation design where needed. In addition to the CODEC development are other video efforts that include raw video processing such as scaling, intelligent video processing such as object recognition, and other system features such as OSD and remote video collaboration. Software development is implemented in both Microsoft Visual Studio (analysis, feasibility, debugging) and the DSP Vendor IDE (target porting, optimization, debugging). Current software development efforts are primarily 'C' code with some assembly language programming.

Responsibilities:
Develop software for an embedded systems H.264 video CODEC
Port existing video features to a new embedded architecture
Contribute to new CODEC features design and development
Contribute to video processing features outside of the video CODEC
Support and augment current-generation video CODEC software/firmware
Contribute to the debugging of pre-production CODEC firmware and assist in diagnosing field problems
Contribute to the development of firmware infrastructure, e.g., bootloaders and diagnostics
Implement testing scripts and subjective quality testing techniques

Required Skills:
Experience with real-time software development in an embedded processor or DSP environment
Experience coding in C and or C++ and some assembly language.
Knowledge of block-based video encoding, e.g., MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264)
Experience with video CODEC development or implementation.
Knowledge of raw video processing, e.g., scaling, gamma correction, color space conversion
Knowledge of digital signal processing and common applications such as digital filtering and transforms
Experience debugging in a real-time embedded environment

Preferred:
Some knowledge of embedded systems and video device hardware.
Experience with software development in a Windows development environment, e.g., Visual Studio
Experience working with lab equipment such as probes and oscilloscopes is a plus

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