Overview
Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the conse
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Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions. We think it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s the most culturally relevant.
Write C++ applications that run inside Linux TV and Android TV environments, pulling video frame buffers and audio PCM data straight out of the hardware pipeline and turning them into the content-recognition fingerprints Samba's algorithms need. Work hand-in-hand with TV engineering teams at partners like Sony, TCL, and Titan OS — hand them Samba's SDK and spec, then check what they build against it actually holds up. Deploy and debug on real devices, not simulators: over network, USB, or serial cable, working directly at the embedded Linux OS level.
High-level, hands-on C++ - this is an L3 seat, not one you grow into. Embedded device development: you've deployed code from a laptop onto a real device over network, USB, or serial before, ideally from time at a TV OEM/ODM, a TV SOC company, or a mobile hardware company, as a systems engineer, not a driver- or firmware-only one. Comfortable at the Linux command line Video or audio frame processing - you know how to pull frame buffers and PCM audio out of a hardware video pipeline and do something with them. A communicator, not just a coder. Code review carries real weight on this team, and you're expected to be able to explain what you're doing clearly enough that people who didn't build it can follow along - especially in a Taipei office culture where people can default to staying quiet rather than pushing back. Real ownership. Nobody's handing you a finished roadmap or standing over your shoulder - you know what needs to get done and you put in the effort to get it done. Not for you if You need a senior person to lean on — there's no one else in this Taipei seat right now, and you're it. You've worked at the driver or firmware level but never the system layer above it. Code review is where you go quiet — this role runs on being able to walk people through your reasoning, not just your conclusion.
We're Series D, ~$100M raised, pre-IPO, growing 30% YoY, 18 years connecting TV and digital data. This specific seat opened because the person who held it, isn't returning after parental leave. We hire asap - a new OEM integration project is ramping for Q4, and whether the team can run it alongside everything else already in flight depends on this hire.
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