Software Engineer – Audio/Video Data Collection Systems

Job Title: Software Engineer – Audio/Video Data Collection Systems

Location: Cambridge, UK- Onsite

Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities:

• Develop software for cutting-edge prototype wearable devices.
• Optimise the data collection process for reliability and accuracy.
• Work with recording equipment spanning audio, video, inertial sensors, and other modalities.
• Deploy, test, and evaluate upgrades to distributed data collection platforms.
• Build and maintain systems for monitoring system health.
• Enhance tooling for data validation and processing.
• Perform onsite debugging and root cause analyses.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to triage issues, design solutions, and estimate work.
• Promote best practices within the engineering and research community.
• Python-based software development, including user interface and backend integration.
• Processing collected audio/video data and preparing it for further research use.
• Monitoring audio/video streams for quality and completeness.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, including experience with large-scale projects.
• Proficiency in Linux and shell scripting.
• Experience maintaining and improving networked systems.
• Experience with cross-platform distributed (RESTful) and concurrent systems.
• Familiarity with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks.
• Working knowledge of time synchronization techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with hardware multimedia sensors.
• Understanding of audio, image, and video formats.
• Experience with relational and graph/NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of software and hardware testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Familiarity with React or similar JavaScript frontend frameworks.
• Experience with Windows system administration.

Good to Have:

• Basic database and SQL processing knowledge
• User interface development experience for internal systems