Visual Quality Engineer

V-Nova ,
London, Greater London
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Overview V-Nova, a London based IP and software company, is dedicated to improving data compression by building a vast portfolio of innovative technologies based on the game-changing use of AI and parallel processing for data, video, imaging, and point cloud compression, with applications across several verticals. This is achieved through deep-science R&D (300+ international patents) and the development of products that test, prove and continuously enhance the technology portfolio. V-Nova has contributed part of its IP to drive standardization of two codec formats, MPEG-5 Part 2 (LCEVC), a low-complexity enhancement video codec, and SMPTE VC-6 (ST-2117), a high-performance AI-based video and imaging codec. We've developed multiple award-winning software products to kickstart the ecosystems for its technologies and allow their immediate deployment, addressing use cases in TV, media, live event production, entertainment, social networks, eCommerce, ad-tech, security, aerospace, defence, automotive and gaming. We're committed to the extraordinary and rely on the talent of our high-performing diverse teams to provide innovative solutions and deliver what we promise. We've worked hard to create a company where talented, passionate people can thrive in a culture that values individual empowerment and excellence and achieves through teamwork. We're constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals who thrive off solving challenging problems and want to make an impact. With groundbreaking technology, a fast-paced collaborative environment and major growth plans, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. www.v-nova.com __________________________________________________________________________________________ V-Nova is a young, ground-breaking technology company with sound funding, global clients and early revenues. V-Nova has developed an innovative approach to image and video compression that is driving major change in the encoding sector. V-Nova is seeking talented individuals with expertise, passion, and collaborative skills to help it succeed. They must be able to illustrate a vision, build good working relationships with management, and roll up their sleeves to get the job done, and must be able to embrace the risk and challenge that a start-up brings. The Visual Quality engineer is accountable for establishing and verifying delivery of visual quality standards of V-Nova codecs and supporting VQ characterisation. Also partner closely with R&D and QA teams in ensuring what is delivered provides clear benefit to our customers. The Visual Quality Engineer is the key VQ role at V-Nova. It holds responsibility for establishing and verifying suitable Visual Quality standards are met for all products. This includes setting quality standards, evaluating and selecting metrics and approaches (objective and subjective) to be used in evaluating acceptance, helping establish automated processes to deliver best quality output for subjective assessment, establishing and executing on subjective assessment methodologies, and leading research into appropriate calibration guidance to be used with in house and customer platforms to deliver optimum Visual Quality. Responsibilities * Supporting R&D and QA teams by evaluating Visual Quality impact of new algorithms or features and providing corrective advice and analysis. * Helping establish calibration guidance for any new product iterations across internal and external candidate platforms * Collaborating with technical and commercial teams to help establish the causes of VQ issues perceived in internal and external evaluations to ensure we are accurately diagnosing and planning resolution of VQ issues. * Defining and documenting V-Nova Visual Quality standards for relevant customer use cases * Design and create VQ test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases * Use existing tools and techniques to execute VQ test and build/script new tools for performing VQ testing/validation function * Defining and documenting objective and subjective VQ assessment guidelines and processes, and training users of these. * Evaluating, recommending, and/ or developing and leading adoption of VQ metrics / tools such as PSNR, MS-SSIM, VMAF and JND * Leading the use of the above and ensuring it is fit for purpose and iterated & evolved in an appropriate and timely manner. Provide internal confidence in V-Nova Visual Quality standards, the reliability of assessments we conduct, and advice we provide to external users. * Planning and conducting scientifically driven video quality tests to generate reports for benchmarking purposes. Collaboration with / use of external experts to support our internal research efforts. * Leading the preparation of technical white papers. Qualifications * Must have solid understanding of DevOps principals, CI/CD and value of test automation in a pipeline * Must have a good understanding and hands on experience of Git and SCM tools like

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