Join Tubi ( www.tubi.tv ), a division of FOX Technology, a premium streaming service leading the charge in making entertainment accessible to all. Tubi is an ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service headquartered in San Francisco. With over 50,000 movies and television shows, including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 200+ local and live news and sports channels, and 455 entertainment partners featuring content from every major Hollywood studio, Tubi gives entertainment fans an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free. Tubi's library has something for every member of our diverse audience, and we're committed to building a workforce that reflects that diversity. We're looking for great people who are creative thinkers, self-motivators, and impact-makers looking to help shape the future of streaming.
About the Role:
You will spend your time developing tools and algorithms to analyze audio and video assets, determining best methods to generate highest quality media using the lower bitrates, assessing and architecting methods to automate video quality checks in our custom-built video processing engine. Then, through experimentation and online A/B tests of your design, you will fine-tune transcodes for each device to ensure the right trade-off between perceived video quality and bandwidth. At times you will be called in to help debug production CDN streaming issues.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain high-performing video processing engines to generate video-on-demand assets, including:
parsing/analysis
transcoding
packaging media to industry-standard streaming formats
Research workflows, codec implementations, and technology stacks for integration and deployment to our internal scalable processing pipelines
Perform video quality assessments and optimizations with the goal of improving content and context aware encoding techniques
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver new video properties in unique use-cases
Your Background:
You are deeply passionate about flawless playback on everything from high-end set top boxes to hardware constrained devices in low bandwidth environments.
5+ years of experience with C/C++ specifically in multi-threaded programming
5+ years of experience working with video, using ffmpeg/libav, USP, shaka, and AWS Elemental Media Services
Deep understanding of video quality and video playback performance metrics
Experience with streaming protocols like HLS and DASH
Experience with video compression standards such as H.264, HEVC, and others
Working knowledge of DRM technologies (Widevine, Playready, Fairplay)
Bonus:
Previous experience using Elixir
Experience with newer codecs such as AV1
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Colorado and Washington (excluding Seattle, WA) $171,000 — $202,000 USD Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements , the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long term incentive plan, and various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. California, New York City, Westchester County, NY and Seattle, WA $190,000 — $224,000 USD
Tubi is a division of Fox Technology, and the majority of all US-employee benefits are covered by FOX Employee Benefits, summarized here . The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:
For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time
For all US-based employees, Tubi offers 12 paid "Tubi Holidays" in addition to the 11 FOX Corporate Company paid holidays
For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters
For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of the birth, adoption, surrogacy or foster placement of a child. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi
For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement
Tubi is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company.
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