Elemental Technologies (Portland, OR) -- <a href="http://www.elementaltechnologies.com" >
We have lots of open positions, but most are for Software Engineers (specifically, anyone with C++, Rails, or video expertise): <a href="http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/company/careers" >
We're a growing company with maybe 140 people now. Our specialty is video transcoding, and we're doing some pretty game changing stuff, especially in the areas of HEVC/h.265 and 4K. I think we were the first company in the world to successfully pull off a live 4Kp60 broadcast. We're working with many of the biggest names in the industry (ESPN, HBO, Comcast, BBC, etc.), and being involved in events like the World Cup and Olympics is a lot of fun.
Even though we have ~140 people now, Elemental still definitely has a startup feel -- almost everyone does a lot of new feature development. The team is extremely competent -- the most competent I have ever been a part of. Our products generally have 4 layers:
* A video codec written in C (with some CUDA -- we have GPU accelerated codecs)
* A C++ media engine that basically takes the aforementioned codec and does useful stuff with it (this is what I work on)
* A process manager written in Ruby
* A Ruby on Rails UI that basically takes in a bunch of user settings and converts it into an XML file that gets passed into the media engine
* We also have a cloud product that runs on top of AWS
The benefits at Elemental are amazing, and too numerous to list here. I encourage you to check them out here: <a href="http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/company/careers/benefits" >
If you have any questions, please email me at john.saxton [at] elementaltechnologies [dot] com or feel free to apply via our website: <a href="http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/company/careers" >
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