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Senior Scientist, Video Coding

more than one year ago

Posted: more than one year ago

Nokia

Company: Nokia

Tampere

Location: Tampere

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Nokia Technologies is focused on licensing valuable Nokia intellectual property, including patents, technologies and the Nokia brand. Building on decades of innovation and R&D leadership in technologies used in virtually all mobile devices used today, Nokia Technologies is expanding our patent licensing business, reintroducing the Nokia brand to smartphones through brand licensing, and establishing a technology licensing business.

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Media Technologies Research develops differentiating technologies and system solutions through research to Nokia Technologies’ products, strengthens our patent portfolio and drives the standardization of new technologies.

The Future Video Coding team develops innovative technologies for video compression and formats. International standardization forms an important part of our work.

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We are now looking for a Senior Scientist, Video Coding to join our team.

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Key responsibilities

• We are looking for a senior researcher to provide significant technical leadership in the development of video coding algorithms with the aim of improving compression performance and enabling new user experiences.

• This position will involve participating in hands-on research work as well as in standardization activities.

• As a member of our research staff, you will be expected to initiate and create research ideas as well as contribute to research work that leads to technology transfer, publications and Intellectual Property.

• You will also be authoring proposals to relevant international standardization projects.

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Requirements

To succeed in this exciting role, we expect you to have

• 6+ years of relevant experience on algorithms for video coding

• A master degree is a minimum requirement and a PhD degree is preferred.

• Solid experience in software development skills in C and C++.

• In-depth experience in in high-quality software implementation of signal processing algorithms.

• Strong background and knowledge in the area of image and/or video signal processing and compression.

• Expertise in the latest video coding standards, such as High Efficiency Video Coding.

• Solid mathematical skills.

• A track record in publishing in scientific journals in the fields of video/image signal processing and compression.

• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills in English along with excellent technical and scientific writing skills in English.

• Ability to work and make decisions independently.

The following additional skills or experience are valued:

• Knowledge on video or imaging hardware, FPGA, and GPU implementations.

• Knowledge on 360-degree video/image processing.

• Machine learning skills.

• Experience of international standardization is considered a significant benefit.

• Increased awareness of issues outside of your own subject area.

Possible locations: Finland (primary), Germany, USA

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