About Grass Valley
With our award-winning technology and trusted expertise, Grass Valley enables and empowers creators, broadcasters and media organizations to produce brilliant content that captivates audiences and connects people through the magic of media.
As the industry’s R&D powerhouse, we offer the widest and deepest range of best-in-class solutions in the industry. We are the trusted partner to many of the biggest and most creative names in the media and entertainment business as we help our customers to build successful media businesses and navigate the rapidly shifting mediascape.
Grass Valley has been engaged in the media technology business for over 60 years and is part of Black Dragon Capital.
Our people are creative, knowledgeable, passionate and dedicated, working together to deliver high quality solutions and services to customers all over the world. We are looking for our future ambassadors, technologists, thought leaders and innovators to continue this beautiful journey with us. This is your opportunity, join us!
For further information, please visit Grass Valley.
The Role
Within the R&D department of the Camera Product line in Breda, the Software group is responsible for delivering the software needed for user interfaces, network connections and control to the camera product development. Innovation, like making our cameras part of the GV cloud-based AMPP platform, lies at the heart of our activities. This with the goal of improving product competitiveness with reliability as second nature. In a cross-functional project team, you will design, simulate and test the software designs. You will work with up to date development tools, both in a simulation environment as well on the real product.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team with system architects, software, fpga and hardware engineers. This team can either reside on one location, but it can also be a multi-site (global) team.
- Performing requirements analysis and software design.
- (Functional) testing of the software design, debugging, and releasing prototypes.
- Support and collaborate with various other departments (troubleshooting of problems, bug fixing, resolving customer issues et cetera).
- Maintain design documentation (specifications, test plans, test results et cetera).
- Perform unit tests and participate in product integration activities.
- Present designs to peers for review and perform peer reviews.
What you’ll need to be successful
Required Professional Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
- Mid-level position, at least 5 years of experience.
- Experience with object oriented design and C/C++.
- Strong understanding of embedded systems architecture, including hardware-software interactions, real-time operating systems (RTOS), multi-threaded applications, thread synchronization, and memory management.
- Experience with embedded Linux based platforms.
- Knowledge of digital electronics, sensors, and communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, PCIe)
- Knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols
- Experience with or willing to broaden scope in other areas of software technologies, like Web, .NET, Cloud development.
- Experience in managing code with version control systems like SVN / Git
- Experience with issue tracking tools such as JIRA
Personal Qualifications:
- Independent, proactive, and eager to learn.
- Ability to understand customer requirements.
- Strong at complex problem solving.
- Capable of working under pressure.
- Strong time management skills.
- Good team spirit.
- Self-motivated.
- Communicative, flexible, and focused on working together
Offer
The remuneration is competitive in the market. Besides a salary which matches relevant experience level, we offer 40 days of leave per year and an excellent pension scheme. Furthermore there is an onboarding and career coaching program and training possibilities. We offer an informal, collegial work climate, with colleagues that are proud of the products we develop.
- Grass Valley thrives on collaboration with a diverse, global team developing cutting-edge software, hardware and service solutions that provide a rewarding customer life-cycle experience.
- Grass Valley offers competitive compensation packages in an energizing and supportive work environment.
- Grass Valley is made up of fun, dynamic people dedicated to performance and teamwork.
- Grass Valley is transforming - creating innovative new products and opportunities for employees to serve customers' changing needs.
Join an industry leader bringing innovative products, software and solutions to the broadcast industry
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What We Do
Grass Valley is the leading technology provider for the live media and entertainment industry. Trusted by the world's top media producers, powering their media centers, mobile production units, 24-hour newsroom, and sports streaming platforms.
As the number one trusted partner in media technology, Grass Valley enables content owners and service providers to create and deliver live experiences in the most efficient way. Whether it’s IP-native cameras or state-of-the-art cloud production platforms, Grass Valley is at the forefront of ground-breaking live media innovation. Grass Valley continues to pioneer market-leading advances based on cloud and software efficiency to transform live content for the streaming era today and in the future.
Headquartered in Montreal, Grass Valley has been engaged in the media technology business for over 60 years. For information about Grass Valley solutions and services, please visit grassvalley.com.
