Senior Software Engineer – i.MX Multimedia

What You'll Do

• Develop, integrate, and optimize multimedia components across the i.MX BSP (Board Support Package).
• Debug and resolve complex issues spanning kernel drivers, middleware, and application-level frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional hardware, architecture, and customer-facing teams to enable and validate multimedia features.
• Contribute to upstream open-source projects and maintain alignment with mainline Linux multimedia ecosystems.
• Profile and improve performance, latency, and resource utilization of multimedia pipelines.
• Requirements: Bachelor or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or relevant disciplines. 3~5 years of Software development experience for Embedded Linux or Android.
• Very experienced on C/C++ programming.
• Good understanding of technologies in at least one of the following areas: Media framework: GStreamer, ffmpeg, Pipewire, StageFright/Codec2, OpenMAX IL.
• Video: video codecs (H.264, H.265, etc) and V4L2 interfaces.
• Audio: audio codecs (AAC, MP3, etc), ALSA, PulseAudio.
• Parser / muxer: MP4, MKV, TS, AVI, FLV, etc.
• Camera & video capture: V4L2 / media controller framework, libcamera, MIPI-CSI/ISP capture pipelines.
• Graphics & display: Wayland, Weston, DRM/KMS, EGL, OpenGL/ES, OpenCL, Vulkan.
• Streaming protocols: HTTP, RTSP, HLS, DASH, etc.
• Chromium: HTML5 Audio/Video.
• Quick learner, inquisitive and team work spirit.
• Preferred / Bonus Skills Experience with NXP i.MX platforms (i.MX 8/9 series) or similar ARM-based SoCs.
• Familiarity with Yocto Project build systems and embedded Linux distributions.
• Contributions to open-source multimedia or Linux kernel projects.
• What We Offer The opportunity to shape the multimedia experience on industry-leading application processors.
• A collaborative, technically deep engineering environment with global teams.
• Continuous learning and growth in cutting-edge embedded and multimedia technologies.
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