Hiring: Lead Firmware Engineer - Android Video Expert Company: Crestron Electronics Location: Rockleigh, NJ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 12:22:47 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Android, C, C++, Embedded Systems, Firmware, Linux About the job Required Skills: •Lead hands-on video platform integration, configuration, bring-up, and release readiness across Android multimedia framework, Codec2/AIDL services, video HAL/vendor components, kernel drivers, firmware interfaces, camera, display, and application-level video paths. •Drive root-cause analysis, code-level troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production hardening for complex video issues involving hardware encode/decode, synchronization, memory management, buffer handling, latency, power efficiency, video quality, stability, and end-to-end pipeline throughput. •Provide technical architecture direction for Android/Linux video platforms, including multimedia stack design decisions, codec integration strategy, secure and non-secure video paths, low-latency streaming, multi-instance workloads, camera-to-video flows, display interaction, and platform tradeoffs. •Define and execute validation strategy, automation, regression coverage, stress and soak testing, codec compliance, interoperability testing, playback, recording, streaming, conferencing, and multi-session release qualification for Android and Linux video platform releases. •Provide technical leadership to engineers through design reviews, implementation support, debugging assistance, mentoring, technical documentation, vendor engagement, risk communication, and cross-functional coordination with firmware, BSP, camera, display, hardware, application, QA, customer-facing, and silicon/vendor teams. Qualifications: •Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field is required •Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field is preferred •Embedded Android/Linux multimedia software development and debugging, with strong C/C++ expertise •Android video architecture, Codec2, AIDL/HIDL concepts, media codec configuration, video HAL/vendor extensions, and hardware video codec integration •Hardware video encode/decode bring-up and debug, including low-latency paths, secure/non-secure sessions, buffer formats, metadata, and multi-instance concurrency •Camera-to-video, display output, graphics/display interaction, GStreamer/FFmpeg/V4L2 concepts, or Linux multimedia pipeline experience •Android multimedia architecture — Codec2, AIDL/HIDL concepts, media codec configuration, video HAL/vendor extensions •Hardware video codec/VPU integration — H.264/H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1, low-latency, Universal Bandwith Compression •Embedded Linux and Android debugging using C/C++, adb, native logs, tombstones, traces, kernel logs, firmware logs, and buffer dumps •Video quality and performance tuning Compensation: •$132,000 - $214,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!