Neros
CODEC Video Compression Engineer/Developer
$162K–$226K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Feb 4, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Develop low-cost FPV digital video compression for real-time wireless streaming, optimizing latency, visual quality, and bandwidth use across software and hardware.
What you'll do
- Design and implement hybrid CPU/GPU encoder architectures and real-time encoder/decoder pipelines.
- Develop and optimize compression algorithms; benchmark, debug, and test codec performance.
- Integrate codec solutions with hardware and software teams, including FPGA/ASIC design flows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Codec implementation experience developing software and hardware that encode and decode video to a specific compression format.
- System Verilog experience (HLS/C++); strong C/C++ proficiency and SIMD optimization experience.
- Knowledge of video compression theory and standards, plus experience with hardware implementations, GPU acceleration, and multithreaded performance optimization.
Nice to have
- Backend development with FFmpeg framework or GStreamer; knowledge of MP4, MKV, or MPEG-TS container formats.
- Experience with ML-based video enhancement or compression.
Pay
$161,500 - $226,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Assembly, Rust, System Verilog, H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266, VP9
AI focus
Experience with ML-based video enhancement or compression is a nice-to-have.
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