video team lead

Location(s): Kirkland, WA

PortalPlayer is looking to fill a hands-on leadership position in the Audio-Imaging-Video Team. Qualified candidate will lead a team of engineers developing AIV solutions for our next generation handheld devices. Candidate will be responsible for team leadership and mentoring, project definition and scheduling, and hands-on development where necessary.

Requirements:

  • Experience managing development teams of 2-10 members.
  • Experience managing multiple simultaneous development projects, including scheduling and risk analysis/mitigation.
  • Knowledgeable about video decoding and encoding algorithms, AV stream de-multiplexor, AV synch and video post processing.
  • Hands on experience on system level integration, performance and power optimization, problem resolution of Audio/Video products using one or more following codecs: JPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV and H.264.
  • Experience on development of AV media player on embedded platform, with DSP and assembly programming is critical.
  • Experience in developing image and video post-processing algorithms will be highly beneficial (de-interlacing, frame-rate conversions, de-blocking filtering, flicker-reduction, etc).
  • Experience on Audio codecs like MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3 or others will be added advantage.
  • Experience in the power, performance and other systems aspect of embedded platform development - RTOS, inter- and multi-processor communications.
  • Education: MS in Electrical Engineering with 7 years experience or PhD with 5 years experience.

If this sounds challenging, then PortalPlayer may be the place for you. We offer a comprehensive compensation package that includes medical and life insurance, 401K, stock options and short and long term disability. If you are looking for big company benefits in a small company environment, drop us an email at jobs@portalplayer.com.

Posted on: 12/15/03

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