Media Drivers Technical Lead

Cambridge, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-30 → 2026-07-22

Core

Lead a high-performing engineering team to architect, develop, and optimize software for Video Processing Units (VPU) and video codec technologies.

Role type

Senior IC VPU Technical Lead

Builds

VPU firmware, drivers, and media frameworks for video processing

Domain

Semiconductor / Video Codec / Embedded Linux

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical leadership, video codec standards (H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9), Linux multimedia frameworks (V4L2, GStreamer, FFmpeg), hardware-software integration

Preferred skills

Hardware-software co-design, camera/ISP pipelines, open-source governance (Linaro, Khronos, AOMedia)

Technologies

Linux kernel, V4L2, FFmpeg, GStreamer, H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers on VPU firmware and drivers; Drive design and optimization of video codec software; Guide integration of VPU support into Linux kernel and userspace libraries; Collaborate with research, hardware, and open-source communities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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