Media Software Engineer Real-Time
Media Software Engineer Real-Time
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Job Description
A bit about Cantina:
Cantina founded by Sean Parker is a new social platform with the most advanced AI character creator. Build share and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet.
Cantina bots are lifelike social creatures capable of interacting wherever humans go on the internet. Recreate yourself using powerful AI imagine someone new or choose from thousands of existing characters. Bots are a new media type that offer a way for creators to share infinitely scalable and personalized content experiences combined with seamless group chat across voice video and text.
If youre excited about the potential AI has to shape human creativity and social interactions join us in building the future!
A bit about the role:
The media team at Cantina is creating one of the most advanced platforms for realtime and streaming media in the world. Were passionate about building highperformance highquality software and services with a mandate that covers everything from globally distributed infrastructure to highly optimized devicelevel audio and video processing frameworks. We are looking for engineers who are excited about working with exceptional people on challenging problems.
Were looking for an enthusiastic Media Software Engineer to help us provide a compelling experience for users who want to chat with friends and AIpowered bots. In this role you will extend and improve the audio and video infrastructure that is at the heart of realtime interactions in the Cantina app with a focus on building technologies to allow users to talk to bots.
A bit about the work:
Enhance and extend the Cantina media platform.
Add new features and capabilities to enable new ways for users to interact with their friends and AI bots through voice and video.
Extend and maintain the custom WebRTCbased frameworks we use to provide media services for iOS Android and web clients.
Collect and analyze metrics relating to system performance and user behavior.
Participate in detailed and constructive design and code reviews.
Collaborate with other members of the team to deliver new features and enhancements on a regular basis.
Work with application development teams to define APIs they can use to integrate with the media stack.
A bit about you:
BS or MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field; or equivalent experience.
Experience with C or C.
Excellent communications skills.
Ability to work creatively and independently to drive tasks to completion.
Strong computer science fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and concurrent / multithreaded programming.
Exposure to system programming concepts including network protocols; memory management; and distributed systems fundamentals.
Objectoriented programming and design skills.
Interest in solving challenging hardtopindown problems.
Additional skills:
These are not required but are nice to have skills that will help you hit the ground running.
Previous experience with WebRTC streaming protocols or other mediarelated technologies.
Familiarity with audio or video processing techniques and algorithms.
Experience developing software for iOS and Android.
Familiarity with building services using Node.js.
Familiarity with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques particularly in relation to speech recognition and synthesis.
Location:
We have offices located in Sunnyvale CA San Francisco CA and Brooklyn NY. While we offer hybrid employment opportunities near all offices our Media Engineering team strongly desires candidates to be available (or willing to relocate) to work in the Bay Area. For reference 95 of the Media Engineering team works from the Bay Area.
Pay Equity:
In compliance with Pay Transparency laws the base salary range for this role is between $. When determining compensation a number of factors will be considered including skills experience job scope location and competitive compensation market data.
Benefits:
Health Care 99 of premiums for medical vision dental are fully paid for by Cantina plus One Medical membership.
Monthly Wellness Stipend $500/month to use on whatever youd like!
Rest and Recharge 15 PTO days per year 10 sick days all Federal holidays and 2 floating holidays.
401(K) Eligible to participate on day one of employment.
Parental Leave & Fertility Support
Competitive Salary & Equity
Lunch and snacks provided for inoffice employees.
WFH equipment provided for fulltime hybrid/remote employees.
Employment Type
Full-Time
