CODEC Video Compression Engineer

About the Company

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of dual CPU/GPU hybrid video compression encoder architecture
• Design, develop, and optimize video compression algorithms in C/C++, Assembly, Rust or similar languages
• Implement and optimize encoder/decoder pipelines for real-time applications
• Analyze and improve codec performance for speed, quality, and efficiency across CPU and GPU
• Perform error handling
• Conduct performance benchmarking, debugging, and quality assurance testing
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate CODEC solutions using high-level synthesis or FPGA/ASIC design flows
• Stay updated on emerging video standards and compression techniques

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Solid understanding of video compression theory, motion estimation, transform coding, and rate control
• Codec implementation experience in developing software and hardware for video encoding/decoding
• System Verilog experience (HLS/C++)
• Understanding of video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266, VP9, AV1)
• Experience with hardware implementations (FPGAs, ASICs, DSPs) and GPU acceleration (CUDA, Vulkan, OpenCL)
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and experience with SIMD optimizations (SSE, AVX, NEON)
• Experience with multithreaded programming and performance profiling tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Backend development experience with FFmpeg or GStreamer
• Knowledge of container formats (MP4, MKV, MPEG-TS)
• Experience with ML–based video enhancement or compression