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Senior Software Engineer, Video - remote

kognition
Posted 3 years ago  • Philadelphia, PA or remote
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  • Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Video
  • Company: Kognition AI
  • Dept./Group: Engineering
  • Employment Terms: Contract to hire (3-6 months) for Full-Time
  • Position reports to: Chief Technology Officer
  • Number of Direct Reports: 0-3
  • Compensation: Market salary rate + equity incentives + full benefits upon hiring

Position Summary (Purpose of job):

Kognition is an enterprise AI software company that develops an interoperability infrastructure for smart buildings and smart cities. Kognition's AI-powered policy engine automates complex business operations in real-time. We are looking for a full stack senior software engineer to join our dynamic and rapidly growing R&D team. We look at software development as a craft that requires deliberate practice, curiosity, and passion. If you work hard, have an innovative mindset, and love building great software, we should talk!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key part of our research and development team that builds our core products. You will design, develop, document, test and debug software applications and services. You will work as part of a high-powered team, in an agile fashion, towards an end goal of making the world smarter, safer and more secure.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Analyze, design, and plan complex software solutions - - 20%
  • Lead programming effort - - 40%
  • Performs complex bug verification, testing, and program support for various products - - 30%
  • Provide technical assistance, mentorship and guidance to junior software developers - - 10%

    • Minimum Job Qualifications:

    • Education/Training: Bachelors or Masters degree;Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related

    Business Experience:

    • 5+ years experience in software engineering

    Critical Skills:

    • Working with digital video and particularly low latency stable web video (WebRTC, MPEG-DASH, HLS).
    • Experience with web based video processing, video analytics, media compression and encoding (i.e. Gstreamer, ffmpeg)
    • Experience with streaming live web cam or IP camera video using RTSP
    • Thorough understanding of modern web languages (e.g. HTML5, CSS3, ES6+)
    • Strong application design skills and understanding of enterprise software design patterns
    • Thorough understanding and experience working with both functional and object oriented programming languages and paradigms (e.g. Java, C++, Rust)
    • Thorough understanding and experience working with scripts and scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python)
    • Experience developing highly available, highly scalable web applications
    • Experience working with various testing methodologies, including test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and unit testing
    • Experience with performance-monitoring and tuning of complex applications
    • Experience deploying, managing, and configuring applications both on-prem and in-cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
    • Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle in Agile environment (e.g. Kanban, Scrum)

    Desired Skills:

    • Experience with real-time pub/sub, flow, and streaming frameworks (e.g. Kafka, NiFi)
    • Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra)
    • Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs
    • Experience with machine vision (i.e. openCV)
    • Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, DC/OS, Nomad)
    • Experience working with deep net frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, Torch, mxnet, gluon)
    • Experience working with native code in non-native languages (e.g. JNA, JNI, DllImport)
    • Security industry experience

    Additional Specialized Knowledge/Skills:

    • Passion for cutting-edge software design and development
    • Highly motivated and self-directed
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • Keen attention to detail
    • Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
    • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
    • Exceptional customer service orientation
    • Extensive experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
    • Willingness to mentor and train junior developers
    • Willingness to support resolution of escalated technical support issues
    • Willingness to travel to client locations is preferred

    Work Location During Pandemic:

    • Fully remote

    Post-Pandemic Location:

    • Position will be located in our Philadelphia, PA office after the pandemic is over
    • WFH flexibility with a focus on in-office availability (post-pandemic)
    • General Office- travel less than 10%.
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