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We are seeking a Senior Software Design Engineer with deep expertise in real-time media systems, audio/video compression, and high-performance software development. You will play a critical role in building scalable, low-latency encoding pipelines that operate across cloud, edge, and bare-metal environments. This position involves working with advanced codecs, open-source frameworks, and IP-based broadcast standards.
As part of your role, you will help translate the product vision and system requirements into concrete software development projects, driving end-to-end technical execution.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize software for real-time video and audio compression (e.g., H.264, HEVC, AV1, JPEG XS, VVC, AAC, AC-3, NDI).
• Translate product vision and system requirements into concrete, software deliverables.
• Work with media frameworks such as FFmpeg and GStreamer for both audio and video pipelines.
• Implement CPU and GPU-based acceleration paths (e.g., SIMD, CUDA, NVENC, NVDEC ) for low-latency media processing.
• Architect modular, scalable components for deployment in cloud native and bare metal environments.
• Profile and tune software for throughput, latency, and system resource efficiency across varied hardware targets.
• Develop and support IP-based live media systems using standards like SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS, and PTP.
• Work with real-time transport protocols like RTP, UDP, MPEG-TS, SRT, RIST.
• Maintain clean, testable C/C++ code with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Conduct design and code reviews; contribute to internal standards and software architecture practices, share technical knowledge and mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with QC, and product teams on validation, CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment of live systems.

• 7+ years of hands-on C/C++ development in high-performance or real-time systems.
• Strong understanding of video and audio compression standards and formats.
• Experience with media frameworks such as FFmpeg or GStreamer in production systems.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems programming, including memory management, file I/O, scheduling, and process control.
• Familiarity with inter process communication (IPC) mechanisms: shared memory, sockets, pipes, message queues.
• Experience with multithreaded and parallel programming techniques.
• Working knowledge of GPU or SIMD-based performance optimizations.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell for automation and build tooling.
• Understanding of network transport protocols (TCP, UDP, RTP)

• IP‑based broadcast standards: SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS IS‑04/IS‑05, PTP / IEEE 1588.
• Low‑latency A/V synchronization in live production.
• Hardware codec APIs: NVIDIA Video Codec SDK, Intel oneVPL, AMD AMF.
• Adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS, MPEG‑DASH) and multi‑profile encoding.
• Debugging tools: ffprobe, gst-launch, tcpdump, Wireshark
• OpenCV for image/video processing or computer vision preprocessing.
• Vulkan API experience for high throughput GPU compute or future codec acceleration.
• Contributions to open source media, vision, or systems libraries.

What we offer:

• Employer funded benefits program
• Competitive total compensation package
• Work-life balance
• Employee Assistance plan
• Employee Discount Platform
• Career progression
• Casual work environment
• Social events and sports teams

About Us:

Evertz Microsystems (TSX:ET) is a leading global manufacturer of broadcast equipment and solutions that deliver content to television sets, on-demand services, WebTV, IPTV, and mobile devices (like phones and tablets). Evertz has expertise in delivering complete end-to-end broadcast solutions for all aspects of broadcast production including content creation, content distribution and content delivery.

Considered as an innovator by their customers, Evertz delivers cutting edge solutions that are unmatched in the industry in both hardware and software. Evertz delivers products and solutions that can be found in major broadcast facilities on every continent. Evertz’ customer base also includes telcos, satellite, cable TV, and IPTV providers.

With over 2,000 employees, that include hardware and software engineers, Evertz is one of the leaders in the broadcast industry. Evertz has a global presence with offices located in: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, India, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Australia. Evertz was named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, which recognizes excellence in Canadian-owned and Canadian-managed companies. Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies identifies Canadian corporate success through companies focused on their core vision, creating stakeholder value and excelling in the global economy.

Evertz makes certain there is an equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment, including persons with disabilities. In compliance with AODA, Evertz will strive to provide accommodation to persons with disabilities in the recruitment process upon request. If you are selected for an interview and you require accommodation due to a disability during the recruitment process, please notify Human Resources upon scheduling your interview.

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Position based in Auburn Hills, Michigan (U.S.) / Eligibility to TN Visa required; must be a Canadian citizen (mandatory)

Accelerate your career with a fast-growing global engineering group. At SEGULA Technologies, you'll work on exciting projects and help shape the future in a company where innovation goes hand in hand with engineering.

3D printing, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, the factory of the future. these are the daily rhythms of our 15,000 ingenious employees, so why not yours?Whether next door or on the other side of the world, at SEGULA Technologies you'll find the opportunity that will give new meaning to your career!

The Battery Management System (BMS) Software Design Release Engineer is responsible for developing advanced automotive battery packs from initial design concept through full volume production. The Engineer is responsible for the release and system integration of the BMS Software on xHEV vehicle architectures.

• Work with the cross-functional requirements team to decompose program BMS software requirements that satisfy vehicle level functional objectives
• Cross-functional coordination of SW planning, requirements decomposition, integration and validation efforts with internal and external stakeholders in order to meet critical program milestones 
• Lead coordination of BMS SW CDR reviews internally and with the supplier.
• Provide program deliverables on time per major development milestones.
• Lead PDT meetings with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage, track and resolve critical issues. Coordinate BMS change management (CCD, CN, IAA, PER).

• BSME, BSEE, BSCE - Minimum 1 year experience
• Understanding of Energy Storage Systems and Vehicle Electrification
• Good Analytical and Problem Solving Skills - Familiar electrification architectures including EV, HEV, PHEV and BSG systems
• Highly Motivated with Self Motivation
• DVP&R and DFMEA Basic Understanding
• Demonstrated Ability to Work in a Team Environment

SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is a company committed to diversity, and we recognize and recruit all kinds of talent.

This job is located in Auburn Hills, MI. Candidate needs to be eligible to work with TN Visa .

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Scientist.

About the team:

The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab aims to create a leading global data analytics platform organized into three specialized teams using innovative programming technologies. This team focuses on full-stack innovations, including software-hardware co-design and optimizing data efficiency at both the storage and runtime layers. This team also develops next-generation GPU architecture for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications.

One of the goals of this lab are to enhance algorithm performance and training efficiency across industries, fostering long-term competitiveness.

About the job:

• Build an accurate and universal AI performance model based on mainstream AI acceleration technologies to support theoretical analysis.

• Track the emerging hardware designs in the industry, conduct in-depth insight and survey analysis, and identify the direction of key cutting-edge technologies.

• Cooperate with our AI research team to identify key performance bottlenecks in future AI workloads, and define key algo-hw codesign features of our next-generation chips, for the objectives of low cost, high throughput, great scalability, and stability.

• Performance modelling of representative AI workloads with state of the art training & inference algorithms on different hardware specs for quantitative analysis of compute, memory, IO and interconnect.

• Lead our team for acceleration algorithm breakthrough in best tradeoff between model quality and compute efficiency.

• Track the emerging algorithm-hardware codesign technologies in the industry, conduct in-depth insight and survey analysis, and deeply understand main directions and trends of cutting-edge algorithm-hardware codesign technologies.

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About the Company:
Our client is a company building the world's highest- performance pure digital AI inference chip.
They are seeking a Software Architect to lead their software efforts and advance the software stack that includes ML frameworks, compilers, libraries, and runtime. As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing software that interacts with their chip, collaborating with hardware and software engineers, and optimizing software for highly parallel architectures to maximize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Advance the state of the art in compiler and runtime technology for delivering high-performance acceleration of AI workloads across a variety of neural network architectures.
• Research and design new software and hardware AI solutions, involving simulators, optimizing compilers, code generators, and runtime execution frameworks for deep learning accelerators.
• Evaluate various trade-offs of different parallelization strategies such as performance, power, energy, and memory consumption.
• Enhance AI software tools to support the latest and greatest DNNs emerging from the research community and industry.
• Keep up with the fast-paced development happening in the industry and academia to continuously enhance our products.
• Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to develop the next generation of deep learning software.
• Collaborate with architects and hardware engineers to co-design future accelerators.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience developing software for a variety of highly parallel architectures.
• Previous roles include experience with optimizing algorithms for hardware acceleration machine learning accelerators, spatial architectures, or GPUs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex issues with a high level of ambiguity.
• Understanding of Deep Learning fundamentals.
• Strong development skills in C/C++, Python.
• Superb soft skills: ability to work efficiently and effectively in a group environment, and influence a cross-functional team without having direct managerial authority.
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree; preferably MS or PhD.
• Driven and self-directed.

Perks:

• 20 vacation days
• Strong health and extended health benefits
• Unlimited sick days
• Stock options

Please apply even if you don't check all the boxes. We are an inclusive and diverse company and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Job Description

About the Company:
Our client is a company building the world's highest- performance pure digital AI inference chip.
They are seeking a Software Architect to lead their software efforts and advance the software stack that includes ML frameworks, compilers, libraries, and runtime. As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing software that interacts with their chip, collaborating with hardware and software engineers, and optimizing software for highly parallel architectures to maximize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Advance the state of the art in compiler and runtime technology for delivering high-performance acceleration of AI workloads across a variety of neural network architectures.
• Research and design new software and hardware AI solutions, involving simulators, optimizing compilers, code generators, and runtime execution frameworks for deep learning accelerators.
• Evaluate various trade-offs of different parallelization strategies such as performance, power, energy, and memory consumption.
• Enhance AI software tools to support the latest and greatest DNNs emerging from the research community and industry.
• Keep up with the fast-paced development happening in the industry and academia to continuously enhance our products.
• Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to develop the next generation of deep learning software.
• Collaborate with architects and hardware engineers to co-design future accelerators.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience developing software for a variety of highly parallel architectures.
• Previous roles include experience with optimizing algorithms for hardware acceleration machine learning accelerators, spatial architectures, or GPUs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex issues with a high level of ambiguity.
• Understanding of Deep Learning fundamentals.
• Strong development skills in C/C++, Python.
• Superb soft skills: ability to work efficiently and effectively in a group environment, and influence a cross-functional team without having direct managerial authority.
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree; preferably MS or PhD.
• Driven and self-directed.

Perks:

• 20 vacation days
• Strong health and extended health benefits
• Unlimited sick days
• Stock options

Please apply even if you don't check all the boxes. We are an inclusive and diverse company and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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Software Engineers at Photonic are part of the Quantum Development team, providing the software “surround” for our quantum processors based on silicon colour centres. As a software expert, you design, implement, optimize, debug, test and deliver features and tools for our quantum stack.  You move fluidly from strategic architecture discussions to articulating requirements to translating those requirements into clean production code. You will work closely with impactful teams of engineers and scientists on a range of topics. 

Please include a cover letter with your resume (in one file) describing how you would be a great fit at Photonic and what attributes you could bring to our growing team.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain our innovative software technologies in distributed computing environments    
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to conceive, design, and develop features 
• Provide technical leadership to the team    
• Propose/represent new standards 
• Work through ambiguous or undefined problems and think abstractly to come up with creative solutions to challenging problems 
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software 
• Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions 
• Architect, build, and deploy microservice architectures    
• Evangelize proper software development practices throughout the team 
• Collaborate with the Photonic team to tailor fault-tolerant architectures to real-world silicon devices 
• Identify and resolve issues 
• Train, guide, and develop current and additional team members 

• Undergraduate degree or higher in computer science, engineering, experimental physics, electronics/electrical technology, or related field   
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with multiple modern programming languages (etc. Python, Java, React, C++, SQL)    
• 5+ years of industry experience delivering high-quality software 
• Significant experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems 
• Deep experience with the full life cycle of software management 
• Strong proven ability in building high-performance, large-scale, distributed systems 
• Experience working anywhere in the software stack, from databases, to REST APIs and above    
• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, and databases 
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to express complex technical concepts in a clear and easy to understand way 
• Problem-solving skills and ability to resolve ambiguous requirements 
• Experience working in a start-up company (or equivalent fast-paced environment), working with senior leadership, scientists, and engineers 
• Demonstrated ability to creatively solve problems, prioritize, and manage simultaneous tasks 
• Outstanding teamwork skills 

Bonus  

Photonic is designing the world’s first quantum processor in silicon. It would be awesome if you had some familiarity with quantum physics, mathematics, and programming, but we will ensure that team members will have the opportunity to learn about quantum computing as we grow. 

• Get involved with a quantum startup company set to redefine computing
• Work closely with some of the brightest innovators in quantum technologies
• Enjoy a fast-paced and fun environment where you can try new things while solving innovative challenges every day
• Inclusive company culture
• Competitive salary, benefits (including life insurance, extended health, dental, long term disability, and a flexible spending account), and potential upside

The description above is what we think an ideal candidate would look like for this role. At Photonic, we understand that everyone has a different work and life journey. If you feel your experience is close to what we've described, but you might not meet all the requirements, please still apply! We are also committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences, knowing that these very differences inspire innovation and build better teams. If there are any accommodations our team can make throughout our hiring process, please let us know.