Amazon
Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, AWS Elemental, Elemental Video Engine
$168K–$262K
Santa Clara, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Portland, OR - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three specified software development, programming, and design/architecture areas; video/image processing/compression experience of 5+ years is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop production video-compression and processing software, improving encoder quality, filters, and compute performance, and incorporating machine learning to support customer use cases.
What you'll do
- Improve quality per bit in the team’s video encoders and optimize processing performance.
- Design and integrate ML components to improve video quality and enable customer use cases.
- Design and implement video filters, including scalers, deinterlacers, and perceptual filters.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; 5+ years of video/image processing/compression experience; SSE/AVX2/NEON experience is a plus.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
VVC, AV1, HEVC, AVC, ML, Generative AI, SSE/AVX2/NEON
AI focus
Design and incorporate ML components to improve video quality and enable new customer use cases; the posting also mentions solving customer problems using ML and Generative AI.
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