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Job Title: Software Engineer – Audio/Video Data Collection Systems
Location: Cambridge, UK- Onsite
Duration: 12 Months
Responsibilities:
- Develop software for cutting-edge prototype wearable devices.
- Optimise the data collection process for reliability and accuracy.
- Work with recording equipment spanning audio, video, inertial sensors, and other modalities.
- Deploy, test, and evaluate upgrades to distributed data collection platforms.
- Build and maintain systems for monitoring system health.
- Enhance tooling for data validation and processing.
- Perform onsite debugging and root cause analyses.
- Collaborate with engineers and researchers to triage issues, design solutions, and estimate work.
- Promote best practices within the engineering and research community.
- Python-based software development, including user interface and backend integration.
- Processing collected audio/video data and preparing it for further research use.
- Monitoring audio/video streams for quality and completeness.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python, including experience with large-scale projects.
- Proficiency in Linux and shell scripting.
- Experience maintaining and improving networked systems.
- Experience with cross-platform distributed (RESTful) and concurrent systems.
- Familiarity with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks.
- Working knowledge of time synchronization techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience with hardware multimedia sensors.
- Understanding of audio, image, and video formats.
- Experience with relational and graph/NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge of software and hardware testing frameworks and methodologies.
- Familiarity with React or similar JavaScript frontend frameworks.
- Experience with Windows system administration.
Good to Have:
- Basic database and SQL processing knowledge
- User interface development experience for internal systems
