Senior Software Engineer, C/C++ SDK Performance Optimization

Job summary

Multimedia Senior Software Engineer, C/C++ SDK Performance Optimization Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A36449 Responsibilities About this team We own the Effect SDK powering Tik***'s camera and creation experience — the system behind every filter, AR effect, and visual effect used by hundreds of millions of creators every day.

Benefits

Qualifications

• into robust, maintainable modules.
• Localize and fix technical problems and bugs reported from production, with a strong ownership mindset.
• Learn new techniques quickly, communicate clearly, and collaborate well across teams.
• Minimum
• B.
• or M.
• in Computer Science with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Proficient in C/C++;
• Strong interest in performance on mobile devices — you enjoy digging into profilers and chasing down the last millisecond.
• Familiar with iOS and/or Android development, and has experience in video and image processing related applications on mobile phones
• Preferred
• Hands-on experience with mobile profiling

Responsibilities

• About this team
• We own the Effect SDK powering Tik***'s camera and creation experience — the system behind every filter, AR effect, and visual effect used by hundreds of millions of creators every day.
• Drive end-to-end experience optimization of the effect pipeline during shooting — diagnose and resolve frame drops, jank, thermal throttling, and power consumption issues on real user devices.
• Profile the full camera→effect→render→encode pipeline; identify bottlenecks across CPU, GPU, memory, and thread scheduling, and land measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with the rendering engine team to understand and leverage low-level capabilities, and with the on-device algorithm team to co-optimize model integration and execution.
• Build and evolve the business architecture of the Effect SDK (Native, cross-platform for iOS & Android), turning product
• potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.
• About Tik***
• Tik*** is the leading destination for short-form mobile video.

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