Amazon Sr Research Engineer Prime Video Compression Efficiency Team 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

106966446

Key job responsibilities
As a Codec Research Engineer at Prime Video, You'll develop encoder/decoder solutions that affect billions of streaming hours annually. Your work will focus on creating video quality metrics, optimizing codec performance, and implementing best practices for video delivery across devices and networks. Working with Research and engineering teams, you'll drive innovation through collaboration while building systems that process video content at scale, with opportunities to contribute to industry standards and patents.A day in the life
* Implement and optimize video compression algorithms
* Benchmark and optimize codec performance across different platforms
* Work closely with research and applied science teams on developing new video quality assessment metrics and encoding or pre-processing algorithms.
* Work together to optimize model performance and integrate the video processing workloads seamlessly into the larger streaming infrastructure.
* Help translate research prototypes into production-ready, scalable solutions.
* Provide engineering expertise and implementation guidance to support the research initiatives.
* Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews
* Review code and provide technical guidance to team members

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent