INTERNAL - Expert Software Engineer - Video (all genders) - Berlin

Schedule: full-time Employment: permanent Years of experience: 5-7 Your Mission MBition is bringing the automotive industry into the future by building a new generation of infotainment platform that is reusable and hardware agnostic, as well as its implementation into our actual car lines. By implementing interfaces that future drivers will engage with, from sitting in their cars, planning their journey to choosing their favorite music and many more.     To fuel this mission, we are looking for ambitious, enthusiastic and driven minds to help build the state of the art software that pushes our innovation further.     As a 100% subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG that has been perfecting the art of moving people, products and services from point A to point B, for more than 120 years. With an international team of over 650 Employees, who value quality, creativity and believe in teamwork. Together we create passionate technology on exciting topics that include navigation, infotainment systems, location-based services, user experience and interaction. Let’s shape the future! Sneak preview of your future tasks The role contributes to project-based vehicle software development in the multimedia and video domain. Its contribution is as a senior technical engineering role within the project structure, with responsibility for implementing, integrating, debugging, and validating video-related services and components. A concrete project context is the MP-CPU Video Service for i4 LiveGuard/PCD, where the role supports the technical delivery of video reception, storage, management, and streaming functionality Key Responsibilities  Multimedia and video software development: Design, develop, and maintain video-related software components and backend services across QNX, Android, and Linux-based vehicle software environments. Good performance means robust, maintainable implementation that fits the system architecture and supports reliable in-vehicle video functionality.  Cross-subsystem integration: Integrate interfaces between video services, platform components, Android IVI applications, IDC, security concepts, and surrounding system architecture. The role does not implement functionality inside IDC, but is accountable for ensuring that its own components interact correctly with IDC and other adjacent subsystems and interface partners.  Video streaming, storage, and service interfaces: Develop and maintain functionality for video ingestion, segmented MP4/fMP4 storage, HTTP/DASH streaming, REST APIs, playlist and manifest handling, metadata, thumbnails, retrieval, deletion, cleanup, and retention logic. Good output is a service that handles video data consistently, securely, and efficiently within the available system resources.  Debugging, performance analysis, and optimisation: Analyse issues in multimedia pipelines, service logic, storage handling, streaming behaviour, and target-hardware performance. The role is accountable for identifying root causes, proposing technical solutions, and improving reliability, resource usage, and runtime behaviour.  Testing, validation support, and technical collaboration: Support unit, integration, component-level, and target-hardware testing by providing technical analysis, fixes, implementation support, and mock or interim interface capabilities where needed to enable development and validation before full subsystem availability. The role collaborates with Android IVI, interface partners, security, platform, validation, and system architecture teams to resolve issues and align technical solutions. Your Profile Qualifications Essential education and experience: The role requires strong professional experience in software development for embedded or resource-constrained systems, with solid hands-on implementation capability in C++. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a comparable qualification is beneficial, but the key requirement is proven ability to deliver complex multimedia or video-related software components in an automotive or similarly demanding technical environment.  Required technical knowledge: The role requires strong expertise in multimedia and video technologies, including video pipelines, camera or video-related components, GStreamer or comparable multimedia frameworks, MPEG-DASH, HTTP streaming, MP4/fMP4 container formats, segmented video storage, manifests, playlists, thumbnails, metadata handling, and performance-sensitive implementation on target hardware.  Platform and subsystem knowledge: The role requires good knowledge of QNX and RichOS environments and the ability to work across subsystem boundaries involving QNX, Android, and Linux-based vehicle software environments. Experience with Android IVI systems, platform integration, security concepts, authentication or token-based access, and adjacent subsystem interfaces is important for being effective in the role.  Service implementation, APIs, and testing: The role requires experience with backend service implementation, REST API design, storage management, file systems, cleanup and retention logic, unit testing, integration testing, component-level testing, debugging, root-cause analysis, and performance analysis. The person must be able to work independently on implementation while aligning technical decisions with Product Owners, architects, validation, platform, security, and adjacent subsystem stakeholders.  Working style, communication, and nice-to-haves: The role requires strong problem-solving skills, structured technical analysis, clear communication, ownership, adaptability, and the ability to work with cross-functional teams in a dynamic automotive environment. Nice-to-haves include experience with Android Automotive OS, ExoPlayer-based playback, automotive infotainment or connected vehicle platforms, Token Master or similar security concepts, CI/CD pipelines, automated validation frameworks, and vehicle-level testing or debugging on target hardware.  Language Skills    Fluent English, German is a plus Why us? A chance to work on a new generation of Infotainment Systems and Mobile Apps, which will power millions of cars An international, interdisciplinary software hub, which is part of the Mercedes-Benz AG Great company values that we are passionate about and live by every day at work. Have a look for yourself at mbition.io and scroll down to "The MBition Experience Agile working methods and open feedback culture A brand new modern and fully accessible office facing the Spree Flexible working hours Interested? We look forward to receiving your complete application, including CV (in English) and relevant references with the following information:  Job title and reference number  Salary expectations  Earliest start date  You don't bring everything with you? Don't worry, MBition is proud of our diverse workforce and passionate about having MBitioneers from all backgrounds and perspectives. MBition is and always will be an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for employees who convince us above all with their personality and passionately motivated to join the team!  We would like to encourage people with health impairments to apply to our jobs! Our building and workplaces offer the possibilities to adjust to different employee requirements.