Senior Software Engineer – i.MX Multimedia (Embedded Linux)

Location: Suzhou, China. Other location: Shanghai (Pudong).

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products and i.MX application processors with embedded multimedia capabilities.

What you will do

• Develop, integrate, and optimize multimedia components across the i.MX Board Support Package.
• Design and maintain multimedia software spanning camera, display, graphics, audio/video, streaming, and codec subsystems on embedded Linux platforms.
• Debug complex issues across kernel drivers, middleware, and application-level frameworks.
• Collaborate with hardware, architecture, and customer-facing teams to enable and validate multimedia features.
• Contribute to upstream open-source projects and maintain alignment with mainline Linux multimedia ecosystems.
• Profile and improve multimedia pipeline performance, latency, and resource utilization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline.
• 3–5 years of software development experience with Embedded Linux or Android.
• Very strong C/C++ programming experience.
• Good understanding of technologies in at least one multimedia area: media frameworks including GStreamer, FFmpeg, PipeWire, StageFright/Codec2, or OpenMAX IL; video codecs such as H.264 and H.265 and V4L2 interfaces; audio codecs such as AAC and MP3, ALSA, or PulseAudio; parsers and muxers such as MP4, MKV, TS, AVI, or FLV; camera and video capture using V4L2, the media controller framework, libcamera, or MIPI-CSI/ISP capture pipelines; graphics and display using Wayland, Weston, DRM/KMS, EGL, OpenGL/ES, OpenCL, or Vulkan; streaming protocols including HTTP, RTSP, HLS, or DASH; or Chromium HTML5 audio/video.
• Quick-learning, inquisitive, and collaborative approach with team-work spirit.

Nice to have

• Experience with NXP i.MX platforms, including the i.MX 8/9 series, or similar ARM-based SoCs.
• Familiarity with Yocto Project build systems and embedded Linux distributions.
• Contributions to open-source multimedia or Linux kernel projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape multimedia experiences on application processors.
• Collaborative, technically deep engineering environment with global teams.
• Continuous learning and growth in embedded and multimedia technologies.