Video Platform Engineer in Southampton

We are using and creating technology to transform operations at sea to enable people and the planet to thrive. We are open-minded and fearless in our approach to innovation and don't believe in boundaries. We challenge everything and have massive ambitions to drag aging industries into the tech era. We take safety, equality and education very seriously, and our responsibilities don't stop at our front door. Our business is built on the belief that there's definitely a more environmentally responsible way to operate at sea. We employ people who share our core values. We expect our people to be courageous, trustworthy, and conscientious, driven by a desire to do the right thing. We strive for excellence, work collaboratively, and are genuinely excited by our work. We offer opportunities for our people to develop beyond their role and span a multitude of disciplines. These are open to all, regardless of background and experience level. Working with us means being part of a team that is harnessing technology and creativity to disrupt a traditional industry. We are not your average workplace.

Ocean Infinity are seeking a Video Platform Engineer to lead the technical architecture, development, and optimisation of Ocean Infinity’s global maritime video platform. You will own the end-to-end video ecosystem — vessel-based capture systems, ship-to-shore transport over LEO and GEO satellite networks, edge and cloud video processing, storage, and the customer-facing delivery platforms. Working closely with our infrastructure, networking, payload, and software teams, you will design scalable video systems that support live operational workflows, regulatory and audit requirements, ROV ops, and external customer services. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is equally comfortable in a codec specification, an FFmpeg pipeline, edge appliances, and a cloud-native streaming stack. A small amount of your time will be spent supporting other projects.

What will you do:

• Design and own Ocean Infinity’s end-to-end, scalable video platform architecture, spanning vessel capture systems, edge processing, satellite transport, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing delivery.
• Define technical standards, compression, transport, storage, and playback across the fleet.
• Evaluate, design, maintain and support video encoding and compression codecs, container formats, streaming protocols, metadata integration and supporting tooling workflows to maximise quality at minimum bitrate.
• Support integration of video products into the video platform, including CCTV, Marine Mammal Observation, and Digital Video Recorders.
• Engineer and tune reliable, resilient ship-to-shore video transport pipelines optimised for constrained satellite networks.
• Partner with the Networks team on QoS, traffic shaping, multi-WAN bonding, and prioritisation policies to balance video against telemetry, control, and other safety-critical traffic.
• Optimise delivery pipelines used for operational monitoring, ROVs and AUVs, customer-facing video portals, and regulatory workflows.
• Champion security and access control across the video estate, including encryption in flight and at rest, identity-based access, and audit trails.
• Work closely with autonomy, payload, ROV, and operations teams to understand how video is consumed in the Remote Operations Centre and on vessels.

Who you are:

• 6+ years industry experience designing and operating production video systems at scale — streaming, broadcast, surveillance, telepresence, or remote operations.
• Deep knowledge of video codecs and containers: H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, VP9, MPEG-TS, fMP4, CMAF.
• Strong command of streaming protocols including SRT, RIST, RTP/RTCP, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, and MPEG-DASH, and the trade-offs between them.
• Hands-on expertise with FFmpeg, GStreamer, or equivalent video processing toolchains, including hardware acceleration, and pipeline debugging.
• Experience with constrained or adversarial networks, for example satellite, cellular, mesh, or other high-latency / lossy environments.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++, or Python) and comfortable working in Linux-based edge and cloud environments.
• Cloud video experience with services such as AWS Elemental (MediaLive, MediaConvert, MediaPackage), Azure Media Services, or equivalent self-hosted stacks.
• Ability to communicate complex video and networking concepts for senior, non-specialist stakeholders, and to act as a trusted advisor across functions.
• Driven, proactive, and able to work autonomously with minimal supervision in a fast-moving environment.
• Open and receptive to new ideas; happy to challenge and be challenged, and works well both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and independently.
• Thoughtful, thorough, and conscientious; takes pride in engineering done well.
• Enthusiastic about protecting people and the planet, and motivated by Ocean Infinity’s mission.
• Curious about the wider operation, not only the video system.

Desirable:

• Experience in maritime, offshore, aviation, defence, or other operationally constrained domains.
• Familiarity with ROV video systems, subsea camera arrays, or other industrial imaging payloads.
• Experience with LEO satellite services (Starlink, OneWeb) including their performance and operational quirks.
• Exposure to autonomy, computer vision, or ML-on-video pipelines (object detection, scene understanding, summarisation).
• Experience operating multicast, SMPTE 2110, NDI, or other professional broadcast transports.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) or relevant vendor accreditations.

Salary: The salary varies for this position as we are recruiting in multiple regional locations and job grades. The salary process is based on skills, abilities, and experience required.

What you can expect:

At Ocean Infinity, we believe in creating equal opportunities for all, celebrating each and everyone’s differences. We are driven by transforming the industry, through our technology, thoughts, behaviours and actions. Being inclusive and respectful to all is fundamental to who we are. It is the right thing to do and enables innovation and creativity to thrive. There is more work to be done, and we know that we aren’t perfect, but our commitment to these values is unwavering. They are central to our mission and the impact we have on the industry, meaning, we cannot live without them.