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Job Title: Compression Researcher
Location: San Jose, CA, United States
Job Type: Full-Time

The world is experiencing explosive growth of digital content and unstructured data. The accelerating growth of user generated content, graphics intensive applications, and increased compliance requirements, combined with the increasing sizes of most file types is straining storage infrastructures worldwide. As a result, organizations are struggling to contain rising storage acquisition costs as well as operational expenses such as power, cooling and datacenter space.

A new solution is needed to optimize online content and reduce digital footprint.

Ocarina Networks is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Highland Capital Partners, and is tooled up to pioneer the emerging file area network. Join our team and contribute to this industry-changing effort!

Job Summary:
Ocarina is looking for someone to research, create, and implement high-performance algorithms for Image and Video compression. If you think you can develop algorithms to compress images and video faster and more efficiently than anyone else, come do it here.

Job Responsibilities:

Research and implement cutting-edge compression algorithms for video and images.
Create better, faster, more efficient algorithms using visualization and image analysis and decomposition techniques.
Implement the newly created algorithms into future versions of Ocarina’s storage optimization products

Qualifications:

Successful track record of algorithm development for images and video for commercial applications.
Up-to-date knowledge of the latest image detection techniques, lossy and lossless compression methods, MPEG and JPEG-LS, PNG algorithms.
5 or more years experience with arithmetic coding, algorithm development, knowledge of techniques used in PNG and JPEG2000, discrete cosine transform (DCT), and prediction through partial match (PPM) based algorithms and image feature detection techniques.
A Ph.D. in Computer Science or higher mathematics is required

Travel required: none
Telecommute: no

Please submit an inquiry with your resume via email to careers@ocarinanetworks.com.

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