Automotive Android Video Engineer - C++

Description :

We are looking for a strong Automotive Android Video Engineer with deep expertise in Android multimedia and Android video frameworks across the complete software stack for Gen3++ Snapdragon Platforms. The ideal candidate should possess strong C++ design and development skills with hands-on experience in Android video playback architecture, Android Multimedia Framework internals, Android Codec2 Framework, Android V4L2 interactions, Android buffer management, hardware video pipelines, and Linux multimedia driver interactions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, integrate, and optimize Android video and Android multimedia components for automotive platforms

- Work across complete Android multimedia/video stack from framework to low-level video interfaces

- Develop and debug Android video playback pipelines and Android media services

- Optimize video playback latency, synchronization, throughput, and memory utilization

- Work on hardware accelerated video encoder/decoder pipelines

- Debug Android multimedia framework, codec, rendering, and buffer flow related issues

- Analyze performance bottlenecks in Android video playback and streaming use cases

- Collaborate with BSP, display, graphics, and platform teams

- Support bring-up, integration, and stabilization of Android multimedia stack on Gen3++ platforms

Programming & Design Skills :

- Strong C++ programming skills

- Object-oriented design

- Multithreading and synchronization

- Memory management
- IPC mechanisms

- Performance optimization

- STL and modern C++ concepts

Android Multimedia Framework Expertise :

- Android Multimedia Framework

- Android Stagefright Architecture

- Android MediaPlayerService

- Android MediaCodec Framework

- Android Codec2 Framework

- Android ACodec understanding

- Android NuPlayer Architecture

- Android AwesomePlayer (legacy understanding preferred)

- Android Extractors and Parsers
- Android Media Session / Media Service Architecture

- Audio-Video synchronization concepts
- Android Surface rendering pipeline understanding

Android Video Playback Domain :

- Android video player architecture

- Android video playback pipeline

- Android streaming pipeline understanding

- Frame scheduling and rendering

- Timestamp management

- Playback synchronization

- Android video rendering optimization

Android Codec & Video Pipeline Knowledge :

- Hardware video encoder/decoder pipelines

- Software vs hardware codecs

- Codec initialization and negotiation

- Input/output buffer flow

- Zero-copy pipeline concepts

- Frame lifecycle management

- Bitstream handling

- Color formats and conversion

- Resolution switching handling

Supported Video Standards :

- H.264 / AVC
- H.265 / HEVC
- VP8 / VP9
- AV1 (preferred)

Android Buffer Handling Expertise :

- Android BufferQueue Architecture

- Android Graphic Buffers

- Android DMABUF handling

- Android ION memory concepts

- Shared memory management

- Producer-consumer model

- Android Surface buffer flow

- Buffer synchronization

- Low-latency buffer optimization

Android Linux Multimedia & Driver Interface :

- Android V4L2 Framework

- Linux multimedia subsystem basics

- Video device interaction

- Hardware abstraction understanding

- Driver-level debugging exposure

- Kernel log analysis