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What you will be doing...

As a senior engineer in the video platform, you will be responsible for designing and developing the video player for Video products on Set top boxes, Mobile and Web. You should be demonstrating technical leadership on video streaming and real-time ad insertion. You will partner with the product, Network, Encoder and CFT teams to deliver the best experience for Verizon Video customers. You will also be getting an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and innovation along with the below responsibilities.

• You are expected to architect video playback solutions for different client platforms
• Design and optimize player to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
• Optimizing video encoding and decoding on various HW platforms
• Developing bandwidth control and adaptive streaming algorithms
• Integrating with device-specific audio/video hardware and firmware interfaces
• Should have the capability to work effectively in matrix org structure to coordinate multiple functions spread across different geography
• Should work with external and internal stakeholders and CFT teams to build and deploy streaming solutions
• Should be involved in the product requirements discussions and provide direction to the team. Should drive the development life cycle from Verizon India
• Perform data analysis on product launch, maintain product performance scorecard, and track key performance indicators of product line on a regular basis.

What we are looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Strong team orientation with a track record of working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, external business partners, and software vendors in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to successfully work with a global project team and time shift as need to support required activities
• Should possess excellent communication and presentation skills
• Hands on development experience in Kotlin, Javascript
• Knowledge of Android operating system internals
• Experience in the video and audio encoding (AVC, HEVC, OPUS, etc) and streaming (DASH, HLS, WebRTC, RTP, RTSP) technologies
• Experience in integrating and performance tuning for video clients like Exoplayer, Shaka etc.
• Experience in developing player functionalities like closed captions, selecting audio tracks and implementing video controls
• Expertise in troubleshooting, Code optimisation, Performance Tuning
• Experience in analysing player metrics and tracking streaming issues in the field
• Good knowledge on Advertisement platforms and ad insertion
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to work with other product / support teams and ability to work independently on complex tasks.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Understanding of video encoding tools, CDN caching like QWILT .
• Experience in network programming and understanding of network and web related protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS).
• Knowledge of Linux systems and RTOS internals
• Knowledge of Machine learning and Artificial intelligence.
• Knowledge of tools like Firebase, Splunk, Qlik, etc.

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Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.