# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: The Walt Disney Company
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,500.00 - $280,900.00 per year (San Francisco, CA) or $182,200.00 - $244,300.00 per year (Morrisville, NC)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Core Media Technology (CMT) team in Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology. This role involves research and development for future generation image and video coding, particularly through the application of ML/AI methods.

Responsibilities:

- Participate and represent Disney at AOM and connect with academic research groups, conferences, and other standard bodies such as MPEG, IETF, and VQEG.

- Conduct innovative research and advanced development involving advanced computer vision algorithms and applied ML/AI techniques to address tasks such as media enhancement, understanding, analysis, compression, and enhancing storytelling through innovative media experiences.

- Design video algorithms and software workflows for achieving velocity, scale, and efficiency to further optimize our media platform.

- Drive architectural innovation and significant IP generation both internally and at the standards level.

- Collaborate with senior leaders to drive major technical advancements.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field.

- Deep expertise in video coding standards such as AV1, AV2, AVC, HEVC, VVC.

- Strong algorithm background for both traditional block-based and emerging neural network-based video coding tools.

- Proven track record of IP generation.

- In-depth understanding and experience with multimedia stack, multimedia frameworks, and video coding/processing methods.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge and experience with C/C++ and Python.

- Extensive experience in deploying and optimizing AI/ML models and frameworks.

- Applied knowledge of Media Metadata and Processing, ABR algorithms and transport formats, and gStreamer Media Framework.

Salary: $209,500.00 - $280,900.00 per year (San Francisco, CA) or $182,200.00 - $244,300.00 per year (Morrisville, NC)

## Skills

### Required
- video coding standards
- AV1
- AV2
- AVC
- HEVC
- VVC
- computer vision
- ML/AI
- multimedia stack
- multimedia frameworks

### Nice to have
- C/C++
- Python
- AI/ML models
- Media Metadata and Processing
- ABR algorithms
- gStreamer Media Framework

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