Senior Staff Scientist on video coding algorithms and standards

About InterDigital

InterDigital is a global research and development company focused primarily on wireless, video, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and related technologies. We design and develop foundational technologies that enable connected, immersive experiences in a broad range of communications and entertainment products and services. We license our innovations worldwide to companies providing such products and services, including makers of wireless communications devices, consumer electronics, IoT devices, cars and other motor vehicles, and providers of cloud-based services such as video streaming. As a leader in wireless technology, our engineers have designed and developed a wide range of innovations that are used in wireless products and networks, from the earliest digital cellular systems to 5G and today’s most advanced Wi-Fi technologies. We are also a leader in video processing and video encoding/decoding technology, with a significant AI research effort that intersects with both wireless and video technologies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on Nasdaq. InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.

Job context

InterDigital is looking for its core video compression team senior staff scientist researcher in the field of video compression.

This mission will take place within a team of talented video compression researchers. It will consist in designing and developing core video compression algorithms, aiming at increased compression efficiency over state-of-the-art video codecs, and proposing them to standardization organizations such as the Joint Video Expert Team (JVET). The conceived algorithms will be developed in a C++ video coding platform.

We are looking for motivated researchers and engineers to take part of this team in InterDigital Rennes, France.

Job description

• Integrate a team of researchers/engineers to investigate, design, implement, and optimize algorithms/models leading to improved video compression efficiency over state-of-the-art standards.

• Contribute to next generation video coding standards (as developed by JVET, ITU-T SG21 VCEG, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 MPEG).

• Represent the company, promote and defend proposals from the company, take leadership positions in standardization meetings

• Represent and promote in top academic conferences and in scientific journals.

• Work closely with our IPR teams on protecting our ideas.

• Supervise interns/PhDs, collaborate with academics.

Requirements

• MS or PhD degree in computer science, electrical engineering, math, statistics, or related fields

• Full understanding of state-of-the-art video compression algorithms

• High skills in signal processing, image processing, information theory

• High experience on video compression standards like VVC, AV1, HEVC, AV1, or recent developments such as ECM.

• High experience in standardization in committees like JVET, MPEG, VCEG

• High experience in C++ programming language

• Ability to communicate/collaborate with other researchers/engineers

• Ability to think out of box

• Fluent in spoken and written English

The following aspects are a plus:

• Expertise on machine learning and deep learning

• Grid computing

• Bash or python scripting languages

• High-level syntax / transport / file format / streaming

Location: Rennes, France

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