Senior video coding expert

Job Context:

The job is based in France (Rennes, Paris), China (Beijing), England (London) or Finland (Tampere), working in a hybrid office mode. Depending on a candidate profile and preference, the job may require travels to standardization meetings.

As part of the Industry Standards and Research department, our team consists of multimedia technology experts focused on bringing innovative solutions to our products (mobile phones, EVs, TVs, Mi Box, video cameras, etc. ) through cutting-edge research and international standardization (e.g. MPEG, JVET, 3GPP, etc.) covering a wide spectrum of multimedia systems aspects.

If you are looking for new challenges in the area of video coding and communication services and are looking forward to seeing your work take life in innovative products, come and join us in this exciting environment!


Job Mission:

As member of the team, you will work together with world-class experts on video coding, 3D media coding, video delivery, signal processing, and other related technologies. Your mission will be to participate to innovation, imagine, design, implement, optimize and benchmark new algorithms against state-of-the-art coding technologies to build foundations of the next generation of video codecs. Your mission will also include support to our product teams to ensure that the latest video technologies can be offered to our users via amazing products with competitive prices.


Profile:

• You are holder of an Engineering, MS or PhD degree in Video Coding, Computer Science, Mathematics, Signal Processing or equivalent.

• You have a minimum of 2 years experience in video coding standardization (ISO/MPEG, ITU/VCEG, JVET).

• You have a strong expertise in video codecs such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, etc.

• You have a solid technical and programming skills (C++, python, etc.).

• Expertise in artificial intelligence or machine learning is a plus.

• You are rigorous, creative, pragmatic and results oriented.

• You have a good level of spoken and written English.

• Ideally, you are passionate about video technologies and have strong motivation for bringing video innovations into products.


Job description:

In this role your core responsibilities will be:

1. Research and implement new video coding algorithms.

2. Contribute to standards on video coding (e.g. ISO/MPEG, ITU-T/VCEG and JVET), and applicative standards where video expertise is needed (e.g. 3GPP SA4).

3. Work with our IPR teams on protecting our ideas and products.

4. Collaborate with our video products teams so as to bring our innovations to life.

5. Demonstrate Xiaomi's innovation through scientific publications, technical conferences or other communication events.

6. Help building a technology roadmap based on expert analysis and present to leaders and executives.

7. Supervise interns/PhDs and foster collaborations with academics.


If you are interested in joining Xiaomi’s Media Coding and Delivery Group, please contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/champelml/