C++ Software Engineer (XIP & ACE)
Cracow, Poland
Full Time
Mid Level
About Grass Valley?
With our award-winning technology and trusted expertise, Grass Valley enables and empowers creators, broadcasters and media organizations to produce brilliant content that captivates audiences and connects people through the magic of media.
As the industry’s R&D powerhouse, we offer the widest and deepest range of best-in-class solutions in the industry. We are the trusted partner to many of the biggest and most creative names in the media and entertainment business as we help our customers to build successful media businesses and navigate the rapidly shifting mediascape.
About Grass Valley?
As the world continues to evolve, Grass Valley is also transforming: Creating innovative breakthrough solutions to serve customers’ changing needs and realities. We are proud that for over 60 years, our innovations have enabled content creators, broadcasters, and media organizations to produce rich, compelling content that brings the viewer even closer to the action; more engaged with the story and more connected to others.
Our people are creative, knowledgeable, passionate, and dedicated, working together to deliver high quality solutions and services to customers all over the world. We are looking for our future ambassadors, technologists, thought leaders and innovators to continue this beautiful journey with us. This is your opportunity, join us!
For further information, please visit www.grassvalley.com
XIP and ACE Team
As a member of the team working on Grass Valley’s XIP-3911 Application Platform, you will contribute to the development of advanced video processing systems used in live broadcasting environments. This platform supports high-definition (HD), 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD), and high dynamic range (HDR) video formats, which are essential for delivering high-quality live content such as sports, news, and entertainment.
The Role
Our collaborative international team consists of members located in Poland and Canada. This role involves close cooperation across time zones, with regular team synchronization typically taking place between 3 PM and 5 PM CET.
As part of the team, you will contribute to projects that span the full development life cycle - from backend to frontend, including automated testing and continuous integration environments. Our work culture emphasizes collaboration, quality, and agility. You will have the opportunity to work on modern CI/CD pipelines, actively participating in building and maintaining systems that support seamless development processes.
This is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive in a multicultural environment and enjoy being involved in all stages of software development.
In this role, you will:
This work will directly impact how broadcasters and media organizations deliver content to audiences around the world, making your contributions both technically challenging and highly visible.
The Main Responsibilities
What you will need to be successful
Preferred Qualifications
Nice To Have
We are of course interested in what you have done, but we are equally interested in what you want to learn and do in the future!
Grass Valley offers competitive compensation packages in an energizing and supportive work environment.
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.
Grass Valley is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.
With our award-winning technology and trusted expertise, Grass Valley enables and empowers creators, broadcasters and media organizations to produce brilliant content that captivates audiences and connects people through the magic of media.
As the industry’s R&D powerhouse, we offer the widest and deepest range of best-in-class solutions in the industry. We are the trusted partner to many of the biggest and most creative names in the media and entertainment business as we help our customers to build successful media businesses and navigate the rapidly shifting mediascape.
About Grass Valley?
As the world continues to evolve, Grass Valley is also transforming: Creating innovative breakthrough solutions to serve customers’ changing needs and realities. We are proud that for over 60 years, our innovations have enabled content creators, broadcasters, and media organizations to produce rich, compelling content that brings the viewer even closer to the action; more engaged with the story and more connected to others.
Our people are creative, knowledgeable, passionate, and dedicated, working together to deliver high quality solutions and services to customers all over the world. We are looking for our future ambassadors, technologists, thought leaders and innovators to continue this beautiful journey with us. This is your opportunity, join us!
For further information, please visit www.grassvalley.com
XIP and ACE Team
As a member of the team working on Grass Valley’s XIP-3911 Application Platform, you will contribute to the development of advanced video processing systems used in live broadcasting environments. This platform supports high-definition (HD), 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD), and high dynamic range (HDR) video formats, which are essential for delivering high-quality live content such as sports, news, and entertainment.
The Role
Our collaborative international team consists of members located in Poland and Canada. This role involves close cooperation across time zones, with regular team synchronization typically taking place between 3 PM and 5 PM CET.
As part of the team, you will contribute to projects that span the full development life cycle - from backend to frontend, including automated testing and continuous integration environments. Our work culture emphasizes collaboration, quality, and agility. You will have the opportunity to work on modern CI/CD pipelines, actively participating in building and maintaining systems that support seamless development processes.
This is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive in a multicultural environment and enjoy being involved in all stages of software development.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and maintain software that enables broadcasters to manage and process video signals in real time.
- Work on integrating traditional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) video signals with modern Internet Protocol (IP)-based workflows, helping customers transition to more flexible and scalable systems.
- Contribute to the development of the XIP-3911-GRID firmware, which addresses limitations in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers by significantly increasing the number of video signals a single server can handle, from around 12 to up to 128.
- Collaborate on solutions that use Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modular hardware to create a high-speed gateway between physical video inputs and Grass Valley’s cloud-native AMPP GRID platform.
- Help customers reduce their hardware footprint while increasing performance and scalability by supporting edge compute workflows with high input/output density.
This work will directly impact how broadcasters and media organizations deliver content to audiences around the world, making your contributions both technically challenging and highly visible.
The Main Responsibilities
- Contribute towards technical solutions to clients requirements or issues
- Provide technical guidance to Engineers working on building out new features
- Develop, test, maintain, and improve software
- Plan and participate in all the software development steps
- Establish schedule and estimate tasks
- Use the best software engineering practices (e.g. unit tests, automated testing, code review)
- Integrate code from other teams
- Own your applications, ensure they deploy and run 24/7 with great performance
- Stay up to date with latest technologies
- Be ready to invest the effort to become an even better engineer!
What you will need to be successful
- Degree in Software Engineering / Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 1+ year experience in software development design
- Fluent English (spoken and written) with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Programming experience in C++11 and higher . Any additional programming skills is a big advantage
- Concurrent programming
- Knowledge of common processor buses (PCI, PCIe) and common interfaces (SPI, I2C, RS232)
Preferred Qualifications
- Software Development Lifecycle (CI/CD processes)
- Understanding the TCP/IP from the network programming perspective
Nice To Have
- Programming experience in React
- Experience in media streaming, video/audio processing
- Knowledge about Docker, Microservices and Jenkins
- Extensive experience with build systems like Build root and Yocto to "roll your own distro"
We are of course interested in what you have done, but we are equally interested in what you want to learn and do in the future!
Grass Valley offers competitive compensation packages in an energizing and supportive work environment.
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.
Grass Valley is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.
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