Job Title: Software Engineer - Video and Image Processing
Bangalore, KA, IN, 560048
Vision Research is a Business Unit in the Materials Analysis Division of AMETEK, Inc. Vision Research manufactures industry leading high-speed digital cameras. Our cameras are primarily sold into industrial, academic, defense and government research facilities. We also have a smaller entertainment oriented camera business. Although not our primary focus, Vision Research has received both an Academy Award and an Emmy for our technical contribution to the entertainment industry. To learn more about Vision Research, Phantom cameras and to learn more about our imaging capabilities, please visit www.phantomhighspeed.com.
Job Overview
This position is a member of a small software group to be created in Ametek’s India office. This group in the Indian office is part of a larger software team that includes software engineer(s) in NJ.
The software team is responsible for the design, development and support of leading-edge software products that support our world-class Phantom Cameras. Primarily, this is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) product and a Software development Kit (SDK) that controls and communicates with our cameras, downloads and views one or multiple cines (video files), and performs image processing, file transfers, file editing, etc. as required. The current GUI is written in C# and the SDK is written in C/C++. Future GUI will be written in Qt.
Reporting Structure
Reports to the Software Manager
Job Responsibilities
The job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Design, implementation, release and support of desktop applications and libraries, mainly using C/C++, C#, and Qt.
- Contribution to software roadmap, approach and strategies as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
Necessary Skills/Talents
- B.S. Degree (M.S. preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- Thorough understanding of C/C++ design and programming concepts.
- Experience with C#.
- Dependable, driven, teachable person with good work ethic and is excited to learn and take on new challenges.
- Flexible, able to change priorities when given new directives for the greater good of the team. Committed to progress and comfortable with the occasional fluidity in hours, to ensure synchronicity between India and US teams.
- Visual Studio .NET Windows application development.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience in troubleshooting, debugging and maintaining existing code.
- Excellent technical judgment and decision making skills.
- Recognizes speed of execution as a competitive advantage for Vision Research and thus makes decisions and takes risks to support the rapid development of products and solutions
Desirable Skills
- Image processing & compression, OpenCL, GPU (CUDA), assembler (SSE2) programming, Windows Sockets, familiarity with Codecs, e.g. H.264.
- Experience in Apple OS X and iOS Objective-C Programming
- Experience with Qt cross-platform software