Software Architect

Our company is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.

Join the team that manages the set top boxes (STB) serving over 38 million homes in the United States and Latin America.  

You will be a part of a global team that architects, develops and delivers the largest family of Direct Broadcast Systems in the world.  

Responsibilities:

• Ensure design and implementations conform to the target software architecture

• Propose software changes so system exhibits higher quality attributes

• Communicate with project stakeholders to extract non-obvious functional and non functional requirements

• Provide technical and technology expertise in design decisions, including in software design reviews

• Participate in cross-functional teams across Engineering and IT departments

• Ensure technical leads generate necessary work products (architecture decisions, functional models, data models, etc.)

• Develop working knowledge of DIRECTV’s eco-system, which the STB is a participant  

• Communicate vision for the system designs internally and externally effectively

 Experience:

• Created large scale software systems with multiple components/layers

• Developed software architecture for embedded platforms

• Shaped high-level design for user interface, middleware, and device drivers

• Defined system interfaces between STBs and external systems via satellite (MPEG) and networks (TCP/IP)

• Extensive experience in software development, including as project lead

• Working knowledge of object oriented design and programming

• Strong experience with multi-threaded scalable software, p-threads

• Strong experience with object oriented design patterns

• Experience with static code analysis

• Strong knowledge of UML, networking, and operating systems

• Working knowledge of using or designing Inter-Process Communication systems

• Demonstrated strength in system level problem analysis and problem solving

• Developed service oriented architectures

• Designed system-level interfaces, APIs, and Hardware Abstraction Layers  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 10 to 15 years of experience in embedded Linux systems or real time system

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  

Domain Knowledge:

• Audio/Video Processing

• MPEG

• CODECs

• Encryption