Middle to Senior Linux C++ Developer IRC

Avid is a global leader in technology solutions for film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast industry: the shows, commercials, and news programs you watch on TV, the entertaining video and film stories you see on the web and on the big screen, the personal audio and video treasures that people make at home to preserve their favorite moments in life.

The Аvid-ProTools team is focusing on Pro Tools Family development. ProTools suites intention is to compose, record, edit, and mix high-quality music or sound for movies on a Mac or PC using Pro Tools, the industry-standard audio production platform. Design the perfect setup for your needs with a wide array of Pro Tools solutions—from hardware interfaces and consoles to software, plug-ins, and more. Our team provides design, development, and quality assurance of industry-best products, as well as plugins development, qualifications, CET services, and more.

Our products – and our customers – have received the most prestigious awards in the industries that we serve, including multiple Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy statuettes.

Avid, in partnership with GlobalLogic, is running a Product Engineering Lab in Ukraine.

Requirements:

– C++14, C, Scripting language (at least one of): Shell, Ruby, Python, Perl;

– Experience in debugging, profiling, Network debugging skills;

– System-level programming (POSIX, macOS, Windows, Linux) – Grasp on OS architecture:  

– memory (allocation, mapping, protection)  

– threads (scheduling, synchronization)  

– IPC  

– real-time

– First-hand experience with embedded Linux systems:  the ability to configure, build and run a rootfs of a choice (one of): buildroot, Yocto, OpenWRT, alpine, etc.;  

– Linux kernel configuration and programming (drivers, DeviceTree);  

– Makefile, CMake, Git;

– English level: Intermediate (Upper-Intermediate to Advanced is preferable);

– Practice in TDD;

– Desire to experiment, design, and evaluate solutions.

Would be a plus:

– System design;

– Understanding of OS network and audio stack, ABI;

– Cross-platform UI framework of a choice (Qt, GTK, Tk, etc.);

– Windows, macOS driver development;

– Bare-metal programming;

– ARM security and virtualization (Exception Levels, TrustZone);

– SoC internals (bus/interconnect, DMA, MMU, PCIe, USB, I2S).

Preferences:

System Design, Audio Expertise, GTK+, Qt, ARM, USB, I2S

Job Responsibilities:

Our product is an industry-leading award-winning cross-platform (Mac and Windows) C++ solution.

Our team evolves the project and implements features for new releases in different areas: user interface, databases, audio engine, networking, localization. The team is engaged in customer escalations troubleshooting, bug-fixing, refactoring, performance tuning, and the development of new features. This product is adorable by sound industry professionals, and we share a passion for helping the whole industry to transform.

You will work on exciting projects, both new (from scratch) with new HW bring-up, as well as on those with a big existing codebase.

We follow industry trends and upgrade our dev tools and codebase to comply with the latest C++ standards, so you will stay on top of C++ community developments.