Senior Audio & Video Streaming Engineer (Independent Contractor)

Jabil Inc. partners with experienced independent professionals contributing to international engineering projects focusing on advanced embedded audio/video streaming technologies powering professional products globally.

• 8+ years software development experience in multimedia, embedded, firmware, or system-level environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with GStreamer, including building, debugging, and optimizing audio/video media pipelines.
• Strong programming skills in C++ or Java for embedded, system-level, or multimedia applications.
• Experience with Embedded Linux and/or Embedded Android platforms.
• Experience with Video4Linux / V4L2.
• Strong understanding of audio and video streaming technologies and protocols such as RTP and RTSP.
• Experience with video and audio codecs like H.264, H.265, VP9, or similar.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols including TCP, UDP, and HTTP.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across software layers, including middleware, operating systems, and hardware interaction.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Support development and continuous improvement of embedded software components for advanced audio/video streaming products.
• Build, enhance, and troubleshoot multimedia middleware and GStreamer-based media pipelines for embedded Linux and Android platforms.
• Develop new features, performance improvements, stability enhancements, testing, and bug fixing for multi-platform streaming solutions.
• Integrate media components, third-party applications, user-space services, and system-level software modules.
• Cooperate with firmware, hardware, platform, and application teams to clarify requirements and align technical solutions.
• Investigate and resolve media issues related to latency, synchronization, playback stability, streaming quality, and system performance.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and document architecture, implementation details, and key engineering decisions.
• Create and support validation and testing activities ensuring reliable firmware and high product quality.
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions.

Nice to have:

• Develop or debug Android applications and services.
• Customize Android framework or platform-level development.
• Work with Embedded Android, Android BSP, or AOSP.
• Familiar with multimedia, video, or graphics systems like VAAPI, FFmpeg, OpenMAX, OpenGL, Android Audio, or SurfaceFlinger.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as WebRTC.
• Experience with camera integration or camera subsystem customization.
• Knowledge of hardware-accelerated media pipelines.
• Scripting experience with Bash or Python.
• Experience documenting firmware architecture or design specifications.
• Experience conducting code reviews or providing technical guidance to junior engineers.