Senior Technical Lead, Video Systems (Cameras) (Remote)
Who We Are
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Meraki’s camera team is a growing, fast-moving team building security cameras with a unique edge-based architecture, enabling both long term storage and valuable Computer Vision analytics without requiring video to be sent the cloud; redefining an industry where innovation is rare. The MV security cameras blend the elegance and ease of use of high-end consumer systems with the immense scalability, security, and power of enterprise-grade solutions. Today, cameras are mainly used for security, but what if they could be used for more? Imagery from a camera is information that can solve a problem or offer an alternative insight. Meraki cameras combine the best of cloud and IoT technology, making it simpler and easier for customers to use the camera as a sensor!
Who You’ll Work With
You’ll get the chance to work with a group of very skilled but low ego and collaborative engineers, with deep experience from both established companies to startups. You will be joining a new team working on MV's absolute core functionality: Video. This team will be solely focused on every piece of video, from the on-camera video pipeline up through the players on the mobile app and web.
What you'll work on:
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead who will completely own video end-to-end.
- Explore and advise on new hardware platforms to chart the best path forward for future generations of cameras
- Quantify and constantly improve quality of stored and streamed video, maximizing retention times and minimizing bandwidth usage
- Partner with and empower our Camera Intelligence teams to create unique solutions that run at the edge
- Come up with innovative solutions that cater to both a local LAN as well as cloud backed workflows with minimal latency
- Continually improve the resilience of video recording, minimizing downtime during firmware upgrades or reboots
- Build a web browser compatible, locally accessible interface for video playback for both live and weeks worth of constantly changing historical footage
- Create tools to generate and report back anonymous metrics on image and video compression quality across all cameras
You are an ideal fit if you have:
- Expert knowledge on Audio/Video codecs (H264, H265, VP9 etc.) and streaming protocols like HLS, RTSP, DASH
- Have 10+ years professional experience programming in C or C++.
- Experience in multiple areas of video streaming (encoding raw frames, transcoding to various qualities, delivery across the internet, and decode/playback on client devices)
- High proficiency with common video tools/workflows such as ffmpeg and gstreamer
- Understanding of container formats and metadata (mp4, MPEG 2/Transport Stream, etc.)
- Experience optimizing video encoding quality
- Have strong systems and networking foundational knowledge (systems architecture, memory hierarchy, storage subsystems, LANs, routing).
- Experience with image sensors, GPUs, ISPs, DSPs
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