The mission of this job is to provide superior post-sales support for our enterprise customers, while collaborating effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team. This position is based in our Portland headquarters.
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| Elemental Technologies is the leading provider of video processing solutions that enable multiscreen content delivery. We are actively seeking the best and brightest candidates to join our team. We offer a spirited, stimulating and performance-driven environment that requires you to bring your “A” game every day. |
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In addition to working with world-class colleagues, benefits include:
- competitive salaries
- excellent health care plans
- matching 401k program
- incentive stock options
- tuition reimbursement program
- a ZipCar allowance for personal use
- annual TriMet passes
- bike-friendly facilities
- a copious supply of fabulous food, both in the kitchen and at our weekly Lunch-and-Learns
Our headquarters are located in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon with easy access to all the amenities the central city has to offer. If you have a penchant for big dreams, the engine to get there and a passion for doing it the right way, you owe it to yourself to check out opportunities at Elemental. Open positions are listed below. To apply, click on the position of interest, then hit the "apply now" button below the job description. Or, email your résumé to careers@elementaltechnologies.com.
Sorry, staffing agencies and recruiters will not be considered.
Open Positions
Field Engineer
As a field engineer you will:
- Act as the primary technical interface for post-sales on-site technical support at customer locations
- Work closely with the Systems Engineering team to verify technical requirements and assist with customer installations
- Assist customers with integration of our products into their workflows and environments
- Resolve customer questions and issues, many times involving on-site involvement
- Clearly understand and communicate customer issues to Technical Support and Product teams to improve products and minimize on-site support needs
- Train customers and integrators on use of our products
- As needed, provide post-sales customer support outside of standard business hours
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- BS in computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or other related field
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of compressed and uncompressed digital video and audio standards, especially around H.264 and MPEG-2 technologies
- 2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
- Hands-on network or system administration experience
- Domestic travel, up to 50%
- Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Perl, Ruby, Bash, Python)
Additional strengths include experience with:
- RESTful web API
- Linux CentOS or RedHat
- Zendesk, Salesforce, or Trac
- Adaptive streaming technologies (Adobe, Apple, Microsoft)
- Visio or other workflow diagram tool
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- A strong communicator: you are able to listen carefully to customer needs, and speak and write clearly and articulately as you convey information or solve problems
- Efficient: you are able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort, while keeping your task list actively prioritized
- Proactive: you take ownership of tasks and act without being told
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and to excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Persistent: you demonstrate tenacity and the willingness to go the distance to get something done
- Self-sufficient: you are able to deliver results with minimal supervision but have the ability to quickly recognize when changes must be reviewed with other internal teams
IT Support Technician Intern
Elemental Technologies is the leading provider of video processing solutions that enable multi-screen content delivery, and we’re actively seeking out the best and brightest. As our IT Support Technician Intern, your mission will be to provide workspace support for Elemental’s diverse staff and facilitate use of the technology that keeps the company humming.
As an IT Support Technician Intern, you will:
- Assist staff with the installation, configuration and usability of computers, peripheral equipment, and software
- Work with vendor contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software
- Troubleshoot the interconnectivity of desktop computers with diverse systems including networking, file servers and the phone system
- Assess functional needs to make recommendations for purchases
- Help maintain the organization of IT resources
- Other duties as required
A successful candidate will have, at a minimum:
- 2+ years experience supporting Windows PCs
- 1+ years of customer service experience
- Experience purchasing and assembling desktop computer equipment
- Some familiarity with Linux operating systems
- Experience troubleshooting basic networking, software and peripheral equipment issues
In addition to the mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: You don't cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right, and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: You are constantly thinking of ways to improve our business, our customers’ experience, our brand in the marketplace, and overall company efficiency
- Ambitious: You have a willingness to learn, strengthen your skills, and apply them to new and potentially foreign problems
- Self-directed: You can identify the essential tasks when presented with a list of problems or requirements, and execute them with minimal oversight
- Friendly: You are approachable and patient when surmounting obstacles and supporting internal staff
- Flexible: You are comfortable with multi-tasking while managing your time and priorities
- Proactive: You have a willingness to own projects and see them through to completion
Marketing Strategy Intern
The mission of this internship is to prepare graduate students for entry into the video processing industry by acquiring a thorough understanding of market requirements and developing and executing marketing strategies.
As a marketing strategy intern, you will work closely with the sales and marketing teams at Elemental on projects such as: creating and executing a rapid go-to-market strategy for a new region, creating a partner awareness campaign and tactical launch plan for a new product; or designing a partner program to raise awareness of Elemental in the video ecosystem.
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- Enrolled in or completed an MBA in one of the following; entrepreneurship, marketing or finance
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer Centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
The mission of this job is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by designing and implementing automated test infrastructure and methodologies that will produce superior quality software on fast-track scheduled releases. We are looking for a superstar customer-centric software engineer with a passion for quality whose goal is to create solid, reliable software that defines its genre. In this role, you will be working closely with the product marketing, development and customer support teams to create automated tests, scripts and procedures that efficiently and effectively test our products.
As a quality assurance automation engineer, you will:
- Develop and document automated test strategies and scripts based on feature requirements and user stories
- Identify and implement automated tests that will improve efficiency of testing
- Maintain API level tests and tools that will efficiently test our products and core technology
The successful candidate will have, at a minimum:
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
- 5 years of experience designing, implementing and maintaining suites of automated tests
- 5 years of experience testing Linux-based products. (Centos/RedHat preferred)
- Strong testing skills and knowledge of testing methodology
- Strong coding skills in one or more object oriented languages (C++, Java , C#)
- Strong skills in one or more scripting languages (Perl, Ruby, Bash)
Additional strengths include experience with:
- Testing video codecs, Set Top Boxes, TV broadcasting or delivery of video over networks.
- Using and creating output for Flash Media Server, MS Smooth Streaming, and/or Apple Live
- MYSQL databases
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
Senior Support Engineer
The mission of this job is to provide superior post-sales support for our enterprise customers, while collaborating effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team. This position is based in our Portland, Oregon headquarters.
As a senior support engineer you will:
- Act as Tier 2 technical contact for post-sales customer issues and own the resolution of escalated issues
- Work closely with the Systems Engineering team to create documentation of customer implementations and ensure it is available to the Technical Support team
- Collaborate with Development Engineering and Product Management on product improvements to minimize customer escalations
- Provide regular status updates to management teams on escalated customer issues
- As needed, provide 24x7 post-sales customer support
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- BS in computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or other related field
- 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
- Hands-on networking or system administration experience
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of compressed and uncompressed digital video and audio standards, especially around H.264 and MPEG-2 technologies
- Domestic travel, up to 20%
- 3+ years of experience using at least one Linux-based scripting language (e.g. Perl, Ruby, Bash, Python)
Additional strengths include experience with:
- RESTful web API
- Linux CentOS or RedHat
- Zendesk, Salesforce, or Trac
- Adaptive streaming technologies (Adobe, Apple, Microsoft)
- Visio or other workflow diagram tool
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- A strong communicator: you are able to listen carefully to customer needs, and speak and write clearly and articulately as you convey information or solve problems
- Efficient: you are able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort, while keeping your task list actively prioritized
- Proactive: you take ownership of tasks and act without being told
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and to excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Persistent: you demonstrate tenacity and the willingness to go the distance to get something done
- Self-sufficient: you are able to deliver results with minimal supervision but have the ability to quickly recognize when changes must be reviewed with other internal teams
Software Cloud Engineer III
The mission of this job is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by building cloud video processing technology on a fast-track schedule, and to collaborate effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team.
As a software cloud engineer III, you will:
- Own the process of taking new technology through the entire development cycle - from inception, through QA, to delivery and approval by the customer
- Provide highly responsive technical assistance to the customer support team, translating customer requests into functional code
- Work closely with the entire team to complete release cycles
- Work directly with our partners on the implementation of new features
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Developing cloud-based software on Amazon Web services (EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc)
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
- Deep understanding of MySQL, Postgres or MS SQL
- Strong HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Prior experience developing high-performance, multi-threaded, system-level software
- Ability to travel domestically on occasion
Additional strengths include experience with:
- Audio and video codecs
- Open source video tools and APIs, such as FFMPEG or mediainfo
- Developing software for distributed or clustered systems
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
Software Engineer I
The mission of this job is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by completing new products and features of superior quality on a fast-track schedule, and collaborate effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team.
As a software enginner I, you will:
- Be an integral part of an exceptionally talented team, on a fast track product development schedule
- Be a well-rounded developer who understands system architecture, its capabilities and use cases
- Focus on the implementation of new features for the Elemental Media Engine, the core technology supporting Elemental's product line
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- BS in computer science or software engineering
- Fluency in C/C++ on Windows and Linux development environments
- Experience with audio and video codecs is a plus
- Experience with SQL, Ruby or Ruby on Rails is a plus
- Experience with open source video tools and APIs, such as FFMPEG and Mediainfo is a plus
- Experience developing software for distributed or clustered systems is a plus
- Linux kernel development/optimization is a plus
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
Software Engineer III
The mission of this job is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by completing new products and features of superior quality on a fast-track schedule, and collaborate effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team.
As a software engineer III, you will:
- Own the process of taking new products and product features through the entire development cycle - from inception, through QA, to delivery and approval by the customer
- Provide highly responsive technical assistance to the customer support team, translating customer requests into functional code
- Work closely with the entire team to complete release cycles
- Work directly with our partners on the implementation of new features
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Fluency in C/C++ on Windows and Linux
- Prior experience developing high-performance, multi-threaded, system-level software
- Ability to travel domestically on occasion
Additional strengths include experience with:
- Developing cloud-based software on Amazon EC2
- Audio and video codecs
- SQL, Ruby or Ruby on Rails
- Open source video tools and APIs, such as FFMPEG or mediainfo
- Developing software for distributed or clustered systems
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
Software Engineer Intern
We have many summer projects available ranging from integration of complex video processing, product development, and research to improve the overall performance of our already high performing products.
This position is for a ‘superstar’ software engineer intern who is creative, self-motivated and enjoys solving challenging problems. If you are interested in working on a cutting edge cool project with a world class engineering team, in a fun downtown location, we want to talk to you!
Some of the projects include:
- Optimize Parallel downloads from S3/HTTP
- Blender 3D rendering integration into pipeline
- Research network performance and move basic network processing into the Linux kernel
- Convert PDF documentation generation to LaTeX
- Demux/timestamp testing tool
- Help with development of YouTube System
- Create a player application that includes multi-bitrate views and dynamic video and audio
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- A BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Telecommunications
- Fluency in C/C++ on Windows and Linux development environments is required OR fluency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience with open source video tools and APIs such as FFMPEG, x264, mencoder, handbrake, VLC
- Experience with audio and video codecs is a plus
- Experience developing software for distributed or clustered systems is a plus
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer Centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
Software Test Engineer
The mission of this job is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by designing and implementing test methodologies and procedures that will produce superior quality software on fast-track scheduled releases. We are looking for a superstar customer-centric test engineer with a passion for quality whose goal is to create solid, reliable software that defines its genre. In this role, you will be working closely with the product marketing, development and customer support teams to create tests that efficiently and effectively test our products.
As a software test engineer, you will:
- Work with product marketing, customer support and development teams to identify and understand our external customers and integrate their “stories” into our tests
- Develop, document and implement repeatable, concise test procedures and processes
- Look for and identify test methodology and process improvements
The successful candidate will have, at a minimum:
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- Strong testing skills and knowledge of testing methodology
Additional strengths include experience with:
- Testing video codecs, Set Top Boxes, TV broadcasting or delivery video over networks
- Using and creating output using Flash Media Server, MS Smooth Streaming, and/or Apple Live
- Test experience with Linux-based products
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
Systems Engineer
The mission of this job is to provide superior pre-sales and, as needed, post-sales support for our enterprise customers, while collaborating effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team.
As a systems engineer you will:
- Act as the primary technical interface for customer evaluations and provide responsive and knowledgeable pre-sales support
- Integrate our products into customer workflows
- Communicate customer feedback to Product Management (feature requests, market trends, etc.)
- Train customers and system integrators on the use of our products
- Resolve customer questions and issues
- Work closely with the Software Engineering team to verify technical requirements for customer-requested features and defect fixes
- As needed, provide 24x7 general customer support
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- BS in computer science, electrical engineering or other related field
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of compressed and uncompressed digital video and audio standards, especially around H.264 and MPEG-2 technologies
- 3+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
- Domestic travel, up to 50%
- 1-3 years of experience using at least one Linux-based scripting language (e.g. Perl, Ruby, Bash, Python)
Additional strengths include experience with:
- RESTful web API
- Linux CentOS or RedHat
- Zendesk, Salesforce, or Trac
- Adaptive streaming technologies (Adobe, Apple, Microsoft)
- Visio or other workflow diagram tool
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- A strong communicator: you are able to listen carefully to customer needs, and speak and write clearly and articulately as you convey information or solve problems
- Efficient: you are able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort, while keeping your task list actively prioritized
- Proactive: you take ownership of tasks and act without being told
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and to excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Persistent: you demonstrate tenacity and the willingness to go the distance to get something done
- Self-sufficient: you are able to deliver results with minimal supervision but have the ability to quickly recognize when changes must be reviewed with other internal teams
Technical Support Engineer
The mission of this job is to provide knowledgeable and responsive technical support for our enterprise customers, while collaborating effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team. This position is based in our Portland, Oregon headquarters.
As a technical support engineer, you will:
- Track and resolve customer questions and issues by phone and email
- Work with the systems engineering and sales account teams to drive the success of customer evaluations
- Identify and communicate feature requests to systems engineering and product management
- Develop customer-facing documentation and videos for our customer portal
- Collaborate with QA and technical marketing to replicate real-world workflows and run performance tests
- Use help desk software to manage issues and recommend changes to improve the effectiveness of help desk procedures
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- Strong communication skills
- Comfort with phone support and escalation procedures
- 3+ years of experience with Linux operating systems, particularly with networking and systems integration
- Knowledge of compressed and uncompressed digital video and audio standards, especially around H.264 and MPEG-2 technologies
- Basic familiarity with at least one Linux-based scripting language (e.g. Perl, Ruby, Bash, Python)
Additional strengths include experience with:
- Linux CentOS or RedHat
- Zendesk, Salesforce, or Trac
- RESTful web API
- Adaptive streaming technologies (Adobe Flash, Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming)
- Visio or other workflow diagram tool
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms.
- A strong communicator: you are able to listen carefully to customer needs, and speak and write clearly and articulately as you convey information or solve problems
- Efficient: you are able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort, while keeping your task list actively prioritized
- Proactive: you take ownership of tasks and act without being told
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and to excel
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Persistent: you demonstrate tenacity and the willingness to go the distance to get something done
- Self-sufficient: you are able to deliver results with minimal supervision but have the ability to quickly recognize when changes must be reviewed with other internal teams
Video Player Developer
The mission behind this contract position or internship is to help Elemental perfect the media experience by developing and completing one, two or three custom web video players on a fast-track schedule, and collaborate effectively as a trusted member of a driven, innovative team.
As a video player developer, you will develop and create up to three custom video players; Flash (using http://osmf.org), Silverlight (using http://smf.codeplex.com), and HTML5. If you feel you are a fit for only a certain part of this project (e.g. if your expertise lies with just one of these players), that is fine.
A successful project requires implementation of the following features:
- Similarly skinned players, in terms of look and feel (Elemental will provide all graphic elements necessary for skinning the player) to http://bit.ly/A9uE4t
- Players must be dynamic (supporting adaptive bitrate streaming), as well as able to support manual bitrate switching
- A “Key Statistics” section similar to the current player
- Players must have the ability to look up and report the current resolution of the playing video
- Bitrate chart reader similar to how it is now
- Players must have the ability to look up and report the network bandwidth
- Ability to turn captions on and off
- Ability for Elemental to set buffer length
- Ad-insertion (button that can be clicked to insert a slate for X seconds)
- Image insertion (have a switch that can be selected to overlay an image on the player)
- DRM/encryption (not decided yet—more information to come)
- Delivery of full source code of the players
- An XML for Elemental to make easy updates to certain information in the players
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- Expertise using actionscript (for the Flash player)
- Expertise using C# (for the Silverlight player)
- HTML5 (especially using video tags)
- Javascript
- CSS
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Customer Centric: Elemental’s customers are some of the largest media & entertainment properties on the planet. We focus on being professional, responsive and a great partner for these firms
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively, and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
Video Processing Software Engineer
This position requires a software engineer who is creative, self-motivated and enjoys solving challenging problems. If you are an expert in video processing on parallel processors and possess an interest in developing extremely high-performance, professional applications, we want to talk to you.
As a video processing software engineer, you will:
- Design, implement and test high-performance video compression and pixel processing algorithms
- Understand and utilize the full processing power of top-end GPU and CPU hardware
- Support the Elemental product development team in implementing customer requirements
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- At least 2-3 years of professional work experience
- Extensive parallel processing experience on GPUs or multi-core CPUs
- Fluent in C/C++ in Windows or Linux development environments
- Video codec development, particularly H.264 and MPEG2 and/or VC-1
- Pixel processing algorithm experience, such as de-interlacing, noise reduction, etc.
- Experience with CUDA, OpenCL and/or SSE is a plus
Video Test Engineer
The mission of this job is to define, implement and improve testing methodologies, infrastructure and processes. We seek a superstar tester whose goal is to create solid, reliable, customer-focused software that defines its genre. In this role, you will work closely with development, test and program management to build procedures that efficiently and effectively test our flagship products, Elemental Live and Elemental Server.
As a video test engineer, you will:
- Design and develop test plans, and perform repeatable testing procedures and processes
- Work with customer support and development to identify and understand our external customers and integrate their “stories” into our test procedures
- Become the expert in your assigned testing areas and document that knowledge in effective test cases
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- At least 2+ years of experience shipping commercial quality software with frequent release cycles
- Demonstrated ability to develop and instill processes and practices for regular qualitative and quantitative measurements of audio and video streams
- Experience testing video and audio software
- Familiar with at least one major scripting language (Perl, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
- Demonstrated understanding and skill for performance and reliability testing
- Great communication skills and a history of solving complex technical problems
- Knowledge of video compression software and modern codecs (H264, MPEG2)
- Experience interpreting and modifying scripts, including bash files, REST and Perl scripts
Web Applications Engineer
Elemental’s products win awards for being the most powerful and feature-rich in the industry. We seek talented, web developers with a passion for user experience, to ensure that it remains the most user-friendly and intuitive video processing solution.
As a Ruby on Rails Engineer, you will:
- Work closely with product marketing, customer support engineering and designers to give intuitive user interfaces to difficult features
- Optimize web application code to be fast and functional on resource-constrained systems
- Provide highly responsive technical assistance to the customer support team, translating customer requests into functional code
- Work closely with the entire team to complete release cycles
The successful implementation of this position requires, at a minimum:
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails or another MVC-based web development framework
- Deep understanding of MySQL, Postgres or MS SQL
- Strong HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Experience developing RESTful APIs
Additional strengths include experience with:
- C/C++ on Windows and Linux
- Developing cloud-based software on Amazon EC2
- Audio and video codecs
- Developing software for distributed or clustered systems
- Ability to travel domestically on occasion
In addition to mastery of the requisite technical skills, we expect you to be:
- Self-directed: you take high-level descriptions, boil them down to a technical task list and then execute it, all with minimal oversight
- Team-oriented: you share information frequently and effectively and are willing and able to collaborate
- Flexible: rapid change, steep learning curves and tight deadlines are taken as challenges, not obstacles
- Innovative: you generate new and creative approaches to problems
- Ambitious: you come to work every day with the desire to learn and excel
- A comprehensive thinker: you see the big picture and at the same time, focus on the part. You understand the architecture and can project how adding a feature will affect the outcome
- Dedicated: of your own volition, you contribute above and beyond the strict requirements of the job because you want to see the team and company succeed
- Honest, with integrity: you don’t cut corners ethically. You earn trust and maintain confidences, do what is right (not just what is politically expedient) and speak plainly and truthfully
"Now is the perfect time to join the Elemental team. It's an exciting and extraordinary opportunity to experience such tremendous growth and success every day."
~ Whitney, Elemental