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Job Opening for Researchers in the Area of Multimedia Content Analysis, Search and Systems for Multimedia DSP ASIC Design and Applications

Job Title: Member of Technical Staff

Division: Advanced Technology Development Division, MediaTek Inc

Job Area: Multimedia content analysis and processing for SoC and ASIC Design

Location: California – Los Angeles

Job Description: MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions. The company is a market leader and pioneer in cutting-edge SOC system solutions for wireless communications, high-definition digital TV, optical storage, and high definition DVD products. The Los Angeles, California based Research and Development Unit is searching for a few candidates who will lead key design and IP development activities for multimedia content analysis, processing, search and protection algorithms and exploitation for MediaTek solutions. Newly developed algorithms, system architecture and applications of multimedia content analysis and processing will be integrated to MediaTek products seamlessly. We are looking for superior research candidates in the following areas:

1). Multimedia content analysis and search algorithms and systems, previous experience and knowledge in multimedia content-based retrieval, multimedia database systems, multimedia data mining, artificial intelligence algorithms, signal processing and pattern recognition, distributed information systems are desired, familiarity with ASIC and FPGA hardware architectures is a big plus and preferred.

2). Hardware architecture and design, SoC and ASIC design with DSP and multimedia (video/audio/image) processing experience. Familiarity with multimedia content analysis, multimedia content based retrieval and computer vision is a plus.

3). Multimedia processing for communication and chip design, knowledge in multimedia (video, audio/speech, text) processing technologies, video coding, video/image processing, audio/speech processing are desired, experience with ASIC and FPGA hardware architectures and design is a big plus and preferred.

4). Multimedia distribution systems and architectures, multimedia protection technologies, knowledge and/or experience with various security issues of multimedia consumption, multimedia distribution over network and communication systems, familiarity with ASIC and FPGA hardware architectures, database system and/or networking system architecture is a plus.

Technical Skills required:

The successful candidate should have some or all areas of the following qualifications:

* Excellent programming and debugging skills

* Strong software programming skills with C/C++/Java, knowledge and experience of software development environments on windows and/or Linux is desired

* Strong Hardware and VLSI design knowledge and/or experience with EDA tools, fluent in C (matlab also preferred)

* Strong knowledge of digital signal processing and multimedia processing algorithms

* Strong knowledge of information analysis for searching and exploitation systems

* Database knowledge and programming is a plus

Additional Skills

* Standards experience is a plus

* Excellent team player

* Good communication and documentation/writing skills

* Self starter and able to work with team members across different areas.

Education Requirements

PhD in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Engineering with emphasis in video/image/audio/text information processing and analysis with DSP and ASIC design background; VLSI and ASIC design knowledge, training and/or experiences is also strongly preferred.

Contact:

Andrea Tsai

email: andrea.tsai@mediatek.com, or BCC: zhouw@ieee.org

Tel: 408-526-1899 Ext: 88473