About Tubi: Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creatorled stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation. About the Role: The Player Engineering Team builds and maintains the core playback experience for Tubi clientsspanning Android Mobile, Android TV, Web, Smart TVs, gaming consoles, and settop boxes. We are the cornerstone of video playback at Tubi, ensuring millions of viewers enjoy smooth, highquality, free streaming daily. From optimizing performance on lowspec devices to developing advanced player features, you will play a key role in delivering toptier media technology at scale. This role provides high visibility and direct impactevery improvement you implement enhances user experience and drives Tubi's business growth. What Youll Do: - Design, develop, and maintain nextgeneration video player technology across diverse platforms, including Android Mobile, Android TV, Smart TVs, gaming consoles, and OTT devices. - Enhance media playback performance, stability, and reliability using technologies such as MSE, EME, WebAssembly (WASM), Web Workers, WebCodecs, and WebGPU. - Build player features that optimize user experience from adaptive streaming to interactive playback controls. - Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to deliver seamless integration between player, UI, and backend systems. - Contribute to opensource media player libraries and represent Tubi in the wider developer community. - Mentor other engineers and help shape best practices for performance and quality. Your Background: - Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of software engineering experience in video playback, streaming, or media systems. - Experience with media APIs such as MSE and EME. - Familiarity with video players (Hls.js, Shaka Player, dash.js, or Video.js). - Experience with TypeScript is a plus. - A passion for quality, scalability, and crafting reliable playback systems for millions of users. You Will: - Detect anomalies with AI: Develop systems that automatically identify playback failures, quality degradation, and devicespecific anomalies in real time. - Accelerate development with AI tools: Use AIassisted coding, testing, and profiling to improve velocity, quality, and observability. - Leverage AI for insights: Create tools that use AI to analyze experiments, interpret metrics, and crawl device logs to uncover insights about user playback experiences. - Explore smarter algorithms: Research and implement advanced adaptive bitrate (ABR) logic and AIdriven optimization strategies to further improve playback quality, startup latency, and stability across devices. Benefits: - Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) plan. - Flexible time off policy. - Generous parental leave program. - Monthly wellness reimbursement. $186,400 - $266,300 USD We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior Software Engineer, Video Player