Senior Software Engineer - Data Science.

What you’ll do

HeadSpin is looking for a skilled engineer to evaluate, recommend and implement video stream monitoring and analysis tooling for product development and engineering teams. The role would involve three different aspects of the HeadSpin product:

• Develop and improve testing procedures needed that accurately evaluate video streaming quality and anomalies over time from mobile, OTT, and TV platforms
• Develop a software and hardware approach to enable uninstrumented evaluation of DRM content stream
• Work closely with support teams to address and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Write technical documentation for engineering and support teams.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, performant, and secure software applications using Python
• Effectively communicate technical subject matter to non-technical audiences.
• Review and provide feedback on code reviews to ensure high code quality and alignment with product vision and goals.
• Work with other team members to design and deliver software solutions in a distributed system environment.
• Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives.

Necessarily skills

Core Video Analytics (Essential)

• Anomaly Detection: Detecting lag, app performance issues, buffer underruns, frame drops, and streaming interruptions in real-time
• Performance Analysis: Analyzing streaming metrics including bitrate adaptation, startup time, rebuffering events, and quality switching patterns
• Video Quality Assessment: Implementing objective and subjective quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF, MOS) for content evaluation
• Video/Audio ML Models: Experience with machine learning models for video content analysis, quality prediction, and automated assessment
• Video Analysis Tools: Proficiency with UVQ (Universal Video Quality), FFMPEG for deep video analysis, and custom quality measurement frameworks

Streaming Technology Stack

• Experience with real-time audio/video streaming stacks
• Codecs such as H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
• Tools: FFMPEG, UVQ, ITU-T standards, WebRTC, Android SDK, Xcode, Tizen SDK, Vizio SDK, AWS, Nginx
• Reference free scoring of video and audio using existing tools and technology
• Device based rendering of video on mobile devices, streaming boxes and Smart TVs
• Screen Capture decoding for DRM (Macrovision, HDCP)
• Video Testing and Anomaly detection capabilities
• Cloud video storage approaches
• WebRTC and audio/video live streaming technologies or voice/video over IP

Bonus points

• ​Excellent problem-solving skills to solve sophisticated issues.
• Ability to work in macOS and Linux command-line environments
• Understanding of and experience using source control software such as git
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and algorithms
• Understanding of and experience with back-end development and technologies, such as:

SQL, NoSQL databases

• Understanding of Web Sockets, REST APIs and HTTP requests
• Experience with backend development languages such as:
• Python
• NodeJS
• Able to read and implement technical specifications
• Able to collaborate on developing project specifications
• Able to communicate technical details to non-technical support staff in a solution-oriented manner

Required Experience

• 8+ years experience working in a backend software engineering role.

Required Education

• B.E in Computer Science or Information Science or MCA with at least Android / iOS knowledge