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Staff Software Engineer - Media Editing

Flexible, Paris

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Location: Flexible (Paris, Issy-les-Moulineaux). This role offers the flexibility to work from home, within proximity to an office location.

 

The Role

GoPro delivers a set of world-class, cross platform, video editing applications on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows that are collectively used by millions of people each month. These tools enable users to easily build incredible videos of their life events and share them with their family and friends.

The person in this role will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing core libraries for media decoding, encoding, file formats, and metadata, as well as researching innovative new techniques for edits and effects, helping users to create engaging and compelling edits with their media.

 

Why Work With Us?

Create your own destiny. GoPro enables you and trusts you to get your own job done, because we believe that autonomy in role brings out the best in our employees.

Live your best life. We’ve adopted remote and flexible work arrangements to support work at GoPro alongside our commitment to supporting employee wellbeing, belonging and connection with one another.

Work with leading edge technologies. We encourage employees to cultivate and use the latest and greatest technology, to provide the best solutions to serve our customers. We celebrate creative solutions that bring innovation to GoPro technology.

What You Will Do

  • Media file formats and metadata info through FFmpeg
  • Hardware accelerated encode and decode on iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows, and Linux
  • Color management in our imaging pipeline.
  • Tooling used by the creative team

 

Skills We’re Excited About

  • Cross-platform development experience for at least two platforms: Android, iOS, or MacOS, Windows, Linux
  • C and C++
  • At least one of the following codec APIs: Video Toolbox, MediaCodec, VAAPI, DXVA, Media Foundation
  • Understanding, refactoring and designing large architectures
  • Build systems (Meson, CMake, Make, MSVC toolchain, etc.)

 

Bonus Points For

  • Experience with GPU image processing and the relevant interoperability with codec APIs
  • Experience with 3D rendering APIs (OpenGL, Metal, Vulkan, Direct3D)
  • Familiarity with open source projects such as FFmpeg
  • Experience with Python development
  • Experience with color management
  • Mathematical background
  • Media processing: sound, image, video

 

GoPro Highlights

  • Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
  • Excellent healthcare insurance coverage (Health-premium paid for 70% by GoPro)
  • Competitive salary and discretionary performance-related bonus
  • Subsidized lunch and snacks galore
  • Gym fee compensation
  • Transit benefit – 50% of the applicable public transportation pass
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan
  • Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning, technology trainings, certifications, Peer-to-Peer learning, conferences and more.
  • Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)

 

We strive for the day that no group can be described as underrepresented at GoPro – whether as part of our brand or in our workforce. We are committed to providing a more inclusive, representative, equal, just and happy world. GoPro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#flexible #LI-Hybrid #LI-ST1

 

 

About Us

GoPro helps the world to capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways. We are a force for positivity, celebrating all things awesome while inspiring people to pursue their passions.

We celebrate diversity. We practice inclusion. We foster belonging. We demand equity. And we share the experiences of individuals and communities who also hold these values as core to who they are. From Bucharest to Munich, Silicon Valley to Shenzhen, we are dedicated to building a company that reflects and honors the diverse global communities where we live, work, and play.

Founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman, a photo and video enthusiast in search of a better way to film himself and his friends surfing, GoPro has grown into a relentlessly innovative brand loved around the world for its insanely versatile and enabling products.

We are GoPro and we love what we build.

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