Media Pipeline Engineer

About Company

At Delaplex, we believe true organizational distinction comes from exceptional products and services. Founded in 2008 by a team of like-minded business enthusiasts, we have grown into a trusted name in technology consulting and supply chain solutions. Our reputation is built on trust, innovation, and the dedication of our people who go the extra mile for our clients. Guided by our core values, we don’t just deliver solutions, we create meaningful impact.

Role Summary

The Media Pipeline Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and stabilizing real-time audio/video processing pipelines for our product. This role focuses on SDI capture and playout, file playout, encoding/decoding, transcoding, up/down conversion, logo insertion, and preview stream generation using open-source media frameworks.

The engineer will build and optimize long-running, low-latency media pipelines and integrate them with the product control plane and web application.

Key Responsibilities

• Design real-time media pipelines using GStreamer and/or FFmpeg.
• Implement SDI capture and SDI playout using vendor SDKs and Linux drivers.
• Build pipelines for:
• File → SDI
• File → SDI-4K
• SDI-3G → H.264 stream
• SDI-3G → SDI-4K
• H.265 stream → SDI-3G
• SDI → SDI with logo insertion
• Implement low-bitrate proxy preview pipelines for UI monitoring.
• Optimize pipelines for low latency and stable long-duration operation.
• Implement audio handling and synchronization.
• Integrate GPU acceleration (NVDEC/NVENC, VAAPI, QSV) where applicable.
• Expose pipeline lifecycle controls (start, stop, restart, status).
• Collect and report runtime metrics:
• Bitrate
• Frame drops
• Buffer levels
• CPU/GPU utilization
• Troubleshoot SDI signal issues, format mismatches, and clocking problems.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate control APIs.
• Participate in system-level testing and demo validation.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Linux systems programming background.
• 5+ years working with FFmpeg and/or GStreamer.
• Experience integrating professional SDI I/O hardware (DeckLink, AJA, or similar).
• Solid understanding of:
• SDI formats (3G, 12G, UHD)
• Interlaced vs progressive video
• Frame rates and timebase
• Color spaces (BT.709, BT.2020)
• Experience with H.264 and H.265 encoding/decoding.
• Experience with real-time streaming protocols (SRT, RTP, UDP).
• Debugging using ffprobe, gst-launch, Wireshark.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building broadcast appliances or master-control systems.
• Familiarity with WebRTC or HLS preview pipelines.
• GPU acceleration experience.
• Experience building long-running daemons/services.
  
  

Skills: 4k,pipelines,3g,acceleration,sdi,building