Roblox is looking to solve technical challenges at scale related to video playback and rendering on their platform, aiming to create safer and more civil shared experiences for their global community of developers and creators.
Requirements
- designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications running on Android
- using Vulkan or OpenGL on Android in a performance oriented environment
- You know the difference between AVC, HEVC, and AV1.
- You understand how video is compressed, delivered, and decoded.
- You don't have to look up the meaning of YUV or HLS.
- You love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, optimize, and debug video capture, encoding, playback, and rendering focused on the Android platform using NDK APIs like Vulkan and AMediaCodec.
- Innovate, architect, and implement our vision for video in a 3D immersive environment.
- Have the opportunity to work across our platforms (desktop, mobile, and consoles).
- Have the opportunity to work on our backend microservices
- Collaborate with different teams all across Roblox to develop new uses of video.
- Be guided to create state of the art video tech for gaming industry
Other
- 5+ years of designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications running on Android.
- An expert with the wide variety of Android devices from junk to gold.
- Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
