Research Scientist Graduate (Multimedia Standards) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

About the role

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company.

Topic Content: Multimodal Foundation Models for Intelligent Multimedia Processing

Explore next-generation multimedia technologies powered by multimodal foundation models, including perceptual quality modeling, generative enhancement, temporal video understanding, user-centric evaluation, and intelligent visual representation/compression, to advance video quality, efficiency, and user experience in future multimedia systems.

Challenges For Smart Video Coding And Representation

• Achieving much higher compression efficiency than current encoders
• Keeping complexity and power use within acceptable limits
• Ensuring encoding and decoding work smoothly across different platforms
• Efficiently compressing new types of smart data like tokens
• Effectively representing semantic information

Research Value Of Smart Video Coding And Representation

Traditional video coding is reaching its limit. Smart video coding can go beyond these limits and achieve much better video compression. New types of smart data, like tokens, will use more bandwidth in future applications. Compressing these data will greatly improve how videos are transmitted and stored. If smart video coding and representation become a standard, they will quickly gain market share and have big potential for valuable patents. Efficient smart video coding and representation can save a lot of bandwidth and storage, directly creating financial gains.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and optimize creative algorithms for image/video (including but not limited to 2D video, Multiview video, 360-degree video, point cloud, light filed, etc.) compression
• Research and develop image/video processing and objective matrix for subjective quality evaluations
• Actively participate in the related work of standardization forums: MPEG, DASH, 3GPP, JVET, AVS
• Follow up on the state-of-art developed algorithms in standardization work and conference/journal papers
• Draft standard contributions, patent applications and academic papers

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design) and problem-solving skills.
  • Have published papers in academic conferences or journals in the subject.
  • Rich experience and interest in multimedia standards (e.g., for image/video compression, file format, system, transport).
  • Familiar with C/C++.
  • Good team spirit and communication skills.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Good understanding of the state-of-art compression/transmission algorithms.
  • Experiences on JVET reference software or AVS reference software.
  • Experience in the development of video coding standards.
  • Experience in patents applications.
  • Familiar with Neural Network-based image/video coding and processing.
  • Familiar with Python, PyTorch.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $232560 - $558600 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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