ActiveVideo Networks

Thank you for your interest in ActiveVideo Networks™, Inc. We are always seeking to add outstanding people to our dynamic, multicultural team, so please check out our current job listings below.

We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical (PPO or HMO), dental, vision, FSA, 401k plan, life and a generous PTO plan.

ActiveVideo Networks is an equal opportunity employer.

All jobs are located in San Jose unless otherwise noted.

Engineering

» Senior Data Analyst

ActiveVideo is in the business of making TV smarter. We empower it with more interactivity, personalization, and social intelligence. And we can deliver it to virtually any entertainment device out there! We call this empowerment . . . CloudTV™: our network-based TV platform that unifies all forms of media content — web, television, social, VOD, etc., all onto one screen. So now you can intelligently watch your favorite TV or Web entertainment — anywhere, anytime, in any place. The best of all worlds. CloudTV.

Senior Data Analyst

Develops corporate data strategy including Business Intelligence objectives, data models, data processing strategy (e.g., management, federation, integration and optimization), and data technology strategy. Acts as subject matter expert in key data areas such as analyzing reporting requirements, data integration, data quality, data governance. Develops data architecture perspectives, and directions, including impacts to business process. Applies a structured business approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business processes using standards-base techniques and industry standard practices. Provides support for roadmaps and for roadmaps and for implementation of the architecture.

Responsibilities and Skills:

Analyze business processes and distill reporting requirements and decision-making needs.
Shape a vision and data strategy to meet requirements.
Deep data modeling, information organization, and data stewardship skills aligned to development of a data systems products/services. Relevant skills in data and information placement and optimization in data warehouses and data marts.
Provides architectural governance and review for cross-functional project efforts including internal and third-party development.
Relationship skills: Ability to guide development executives and department heads to new insights.
Executive presence: must be completely at ease when conversing with executives.
Written and oral communication skills supporting the ability to communicate complex findings in a cogent manner to multiple stakeholders with various levels of sophistication.

Qualifications:

Ability to easily balance pragmatic systems delivery with strategic direction. This should ensure a smooth and systematic improvement in data strategy and architecture while supporting tactical execution and operational stability.
Ability to guide, direct, and manage highly skilled architects and development teams.
A broad, view of the internet application services (or similar) business and understanding of strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
At least 8 years of combined experience in Data Analysis and Architecture and implementation of data-centric systems in a large organization or as a consultant to stakeholders across diverse engagements.
At least 4 years of experience with data design and modeling techniques.
Experience with analytic and reporting systems and tools preferred.

Education

Requires a degree in a technical field such as Computer Science.
An advanced degree is preferred of either (i) MBA or (ii) advanced degree in Engineering. Mathematics, or Statistics

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

If you are interested and enjoy working hard and having fun, in a team oriented environment, please send your resume to for immediate consideration. Please indicate job title in the subject line.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

Serves to carry forward the technical strategy and approach for data systems associated with the ActiveVideo Platform, taking requirements from the Data Analyst role and other stakeholders both internal and external, and leading the design and implementation of data system. Drives the system architecture from data gathering though the pipeline to reporting, with particular attention to scalability, high performance, data integrity, and comprehensive reports. Responsible for the event collection definitions, data warehousing architecture, data modeling, and definition of computational elements. Guides the design and implementation of reports.

The Sr Data Architect leads a team of system engineers, database engineers, and DBAs in the implementation and operation of production data systems.

Responsibilities and Skills:

Analyze the requirements for data collection, processing, and reporting and develop a strategy to satisfy those requirements in ActiveVideo's data systems.
Lead the architecture definition and the design efforts as well as overseeing the development of the data systems.
Deep data modeling, information organization, and data stewardship.
Expert in data warehousing industry standard technologies and techniques.
Expert in data modeling, especially in the context of appropriate models for various data warehouse architectural elements.
Expert in database design and performance optimization.
Provides architectural governance and review for cross-functional project efforts.
Relationship skills: Ability to guide development executives and department heads to new insights.
Executive presence: must be completely at ease when conversing with executives.
Written and oral communication skills supporting the ability to communicate complex findings in a cogent manner to multiple stakeholders with various levels of sophistication.

Qualifications:

Ability to easily balance pragmatic systems delivery with strategic direction. This should ensure a smooth and systematic improvement in data strategy and architecture while supporting tactical execution and operational stability.
Ability to guide, direct, and manage highly skilled development teams.
Demonstrated experience in developing a data architecture and models supporting business, operational, reporting and analytics uses in a environment.
A broad, view of the internet application services (or similar) business and understanding of strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
At least 8 years of combined experience in Data Architecture and implementation of data-centric systems in a large organization or as a consultant to stakeholders across diverse engagements.
At least 8 years of experience with data design and modeling techniques.
Experience with analytic and reporting systems and tools preferred.

Education

Requires a degree in a technical field such as Computer Science.
An advanced degree in engineering is preferred

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

If you are interested and enjoy working hard and having fun, in a team oriented environment, please send your resume to for immediate consideration. Please indicate job title in the subject line.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Technical Services Engineer

Join a team responsible for supporting ActiveVideo Networks' waves of latest technology. As part of the Technical Services Team, the TSE will provide second tier support to the Network Operation Center to customers (Network or Cable Operators, Content Programmers and Application Developers). The Technical Services Team is also responsible for: the deployment and maintenance of AVDN Systems at the edges, the support of the Content Distribution Network, and the deployment of new applications.

Qualifications:

BS in Engineering or Computer Science
3-7 years of experience working as a technical support engineer
Working knowledge of operating systems-Microsoft Windows Platform – Enterprise and Professional and Linux
Working knowledge of Networking devices-CISCO, Juniper Networks (NetScreen)
Experience with monitoring and reporting tools – Nagios and Cacti
Knowledge of Internet and web technologies-IIS, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL
Experience with Windows imaging software-Ghost, Symantec Live State Backup Recovery
Experience with Building and configuring HP/Compaq servers
Knowledge of relational database and SQL
Experience with Scripting tools - Perl and Shell
Cable Headend and RF knowledge is a plus
Ability to travel up to 50%

» Customer Program Manager

Customer Program Manager:

The Program Manager position offers a wide variety of challenging and exciting opportunities to manage the delivery of innovative technology solutions to ActiveVideo Networks' customers. Successful candidates will have substantial experience in managing and delivering complex technology product solutions, ideally to customers with "24x7 network services delivery" operations (e.g., cable/telco/satellite or ISP operators). This position features extensive external, customer facing, communications and coordination with commensurate need for superior interpersonal and communications skills. In addition, a thorough working knowledge of cable, broadband, video, and multimedia streaming technology and applications is a distinct plus. The Program Manager's portfolio of projects will require expertise to initiate, lead, plan, coordinate, execute, and deploy single or multiple technical initiatives of varying sizes and complexity, usually in parallel. While external coordination with ActiveVideo's customers is central to this position, the Program Manager will be equally engaged with all areas of ActiveVideo's Product Management, Engineering, Business Development, Technical Services, and Operations groups to coordinate Customer Program deliverables in collaboration with internal resource planning and prioritization. As a primary member of the account team, the Program Manager role is to work with both the Customer and ActiveVideo leadership to ensure ActiveVideo's product delivery plans are clearly articulated, prioritized, and managed through delivery to the field.

Candidate will have the ability to clearly provide project status to all levels of the company and have a proven track record for delivering quality technical capabilities on time and within budget in a dynamic work environment. Individual will work across all functions and teams within ActiveVideo as well as many different client organizations and functions; they will most likely have been members of several different functional groups through their careers.

The candidate should have significant experience managing the technical and customer components of software, hardware and applications projects. Experience with Cable, internet, or network centric companies highly desirable.

Candidate must be a quick learner with an assertive personality who can navigate independently through multiple business and engineering areas; this will be done by using their negotiation, communication, influencing, and presentation skills.

Essential Job Functions (listing most important first):

Program Management of technical teams, including planning, scheduling, creating core teams, and reporting.
Liaise between application developers, platform engineers, Quality Assurance, Business Development, and customers to guarantee that the communications and expectations between the team is constant and consistent.
Drive project initiatives to conclusion by enlisting resources as needed by and providing innovative solutions to problems.
Align with company strategic goals and business objectives for all projects handled by the Program Office.
Report on issues, decisions, and risk factors to management using accepted reporting structure and methodologies.

Education:

An undergraduate degree, preferably in a technical discipline.

Experience:

Three to ten years of experience in the full range of project/program management activities with an emphasis in project planning, risk assessment, resource management, estimating and monitoring resources, and team building.

The PM is expected to have an understanding of, if not in depth knowledge, of most of the following subjects:

Online video and digital media web applications
HW/SW Design or release methodologies
Field deployments
Quality assurance processes
Network infrastructure

Required Skills:

Working as part of a team or independently with minimal supervision, PMs must be able to deal effectively with individuals at all levels, often under the pressure of fast breaking, sometimes ambiguous, situations, and changing priorities.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills are a must for PMs, as are well-developed time management and multitasking abilities along with solid judgment and decision-making abilities.
Must be comfortable giving informal and formal presentations in person, as part of a team, and through various remote presentation tools that educate and influence. Ability to present complex relationships and issues in simple terms, graphs and by other visual.
Ability to provide guidance to other team members (internal and third-party) and motivate, lead, and influence team to most appropriate course of action.
Excellent Internet and computing skills.

Preferred Skills:

Knowledge of one or more of the following would be beneficial.

Online video and digital media web applications
Design or release methodologies and product rollouts
Standards compliant (X)HTML/CSS/Javascript
Experience with Ajax or Web 2.0 technologies
Ruby on Rails or PHP experience
Object Oriented development
Software or application QA

Travel Requirements:

Normal office – may be asked to travel to third party sites approximately 25% of the time. Some travel may be with little warning.

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

If you are interested and enjoy working hard and having fun, in a team oriented environment, please send your resume to jobs@avnetworks.com for immediate consideration. Please indicate job title in the subject line.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Director/Senior Director of Engineering

Director/Senior Director of Engineering:

The Director/Senior Director of Engineering leads the product development teams, coordinating the resources and processes to deliver high quality software products, and ensuring that those products are aligned with the company vision and objectives. The role oversees engineering team managers, help to plan and execute projects and works closely with Product Management, Support, and Operations teams. The ideal candidate combines exemplary people skills with technical depth and project management expertise. Strong leadership is a must; the ability to engage, motivate and guide talented engineers and to coordinate their efforts to accomplish great things is critical.

This position reports to the SVP of Engineering.

Responsibilities and skills:

Managing multiple teams working on multiple related products in a product line.
Supervising the engineering managers of those teams, and ensuring that the teams have the proper processes and resources in place to successfully deliver product with high quality.
Establishing, with the team leads, project plans and schedules and managing the execution of those plans.
Collaborating with product management leaders to understand product vision and product plans, overseeing execution, and ultimately delivering product releases into the field.
Ensuring that products are well-specified, well-designed, operable and supportable.
Tracking and reporting status on engineering execution.
Communicating effectively to upper management.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work well in a team environment.
Strong leadership qualities.
Strong technical background and knowledge especially with the major tools and technologies in use at ActiveVideo, e.g.,: C++, Java, Windows, Microsoft DevStudio, Linux, GCC, MPEG 2, XML, TCP/IP, HTTP, RTSP, MySQL, etc.
Excellent people skills and ability to engage, lead and focus the efforts of talented engineers.
Thorough understand of software product lifecycle.
Strong sense of large scale platform technical architecture.

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years of management/leadership experience in a software engineering organization
Strong technology background
Project management experience required
Demonstrated ability to recruit, motivate and retain talented engineers
Experience in a video product related industry strongly preferred
Industry experience in the development of platform products and technologies preferred
Demonstrated success developing great products

Education:

Requires a degree in a Computer Science or a related field.
Advanced degree preferred.

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Senior Software Quality Engineer

ActiveVideo Networks™ is the most advanced interactive content platform on television. We enable personalized blend of broadcast TV and online video with all the features of the Web. Only ActiveVideo Networks enables programmers and network operators to deliver this combined broadband-TV experience right now.

Senior Software Quality Engineer:

We are seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer that will be responsible for validating the backend and server-side components of the AVDN platform, content publishing and reporting. It is critical that the candidate possesses extensive knowledge and test experience with database, IP technology, switches, networking (multicast, unicast, broadcast), drivers and routers and knows critical test areas to examine for improvements and optimization. Experience in Windows configuration, SQL, Linux, Javascript, Perl is a plus.

Duties include, but are not limited to: setting up test environments; creating system test plan, test cases that cover functional, boundary tests, stability, load capacity and performance measurements. Clear details in bug reporting, and resolutions are important and the ability to communicate across functional teams.

The strong candidate should be able to write detailed test report that describe the features and test coverage executed during the course of the project. He/She should be focused, disciplined, adaptable, team player and adheres to processes and good testing practices of ActiveVideo.

Required Qualifications/Skills/Education:

7+ years software quality assurance experience
White box testing skills
Building test tools and Automation framework
Database skills

Software development skills:

JavaScript, Perl, SQL

System Experience:

Windows, Linux systems
Web services, Apache, IIS
IP network

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Software Quality Engineer

Software Quality Engineer:

We are seeking a Software Quality Engineer that will be responsible for testing Active Video's applications and supporting the Studio functional testers with setting up and configuring the system environments, creating an image of the current system and validating the end-to-end functionality of the system with the application(s) under load. Experience in Windows configuration, SQL, Linux, Javascript, Perl is a plus.

Required Qualifications/Skills/Education:

4+ years software quality assurance experience
Client-side and server-side testing
Automation and scripting skills

Software development skills:

JavaScript, Perl, SQL

System Experience:

Windows, Linux systems
Web services, Apache, IIS
IP network

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Content Server Software Quality Engineer

Content Server Software Quality Engineer:

We are seeking a Software Quality Engineer that will be responsible for testing Active Video's RSS system platform and verifying the availability of the content to the AVDN applications. He/She is required to set up and configure the servers and AVDN platform, coordinate with the platform testers and Reporting testers to create an end-to-end environment validation of the overall product. Experience in Windows configuration, SQL, Linux, Javascript, Perl is a plus.

Required Qualifications/Skills/Education:

4+ years software quality assurance experience
Automation and scripting skills

Software development skills:

JavaScript, Perl, SQL

System Experience:

Windows, Linux systems
Web services, Apache, IIS
IP network

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» Server Software Quality Engineer

Server Software Quality Engineer:

We are seeking a Software Quality Engineer that will be responsible for testing Active Video's server components and writing automation tests to verify end-to-end functionality of the system on required hardware configuration. He/She is required to set up and configure the servers and AVDN platform, coordinate with the platform testers and Reporting testers to create an end-to-end environment validation of the overall product. Experience in Windows configuration, SQL, Linux, Javascript, Perl is a plus.

Duties include, but are not limited to: setting up test environments, benchmarking server components, automating tests, creating system test plan, test cases that cover functional, boundary tests, stability, load capacity and performance measurements. Clear details in bug reporting, and resolutions are important and the ability to communicate across functional teams.

The strong candidate should be able to automate tests, write detailed test report that describe the features and test coverage executed during the course of the project. He/She should be focused, disciplined, adaptable, team player and adheres to processes and good testing practices of ActiveVideo.

Required Qualifications/Skills/Education:

5+ years software quality assurance experience
Automation and scripting skills

Software development skills:

JavaScript, Perl, SQL

System Experience:

Windows, Linux systems
Web services, Apache, IIS
IP network

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

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» STB Software Quality Engineer

STB Software Quality Engineer:

We are seeking a Software Quality Engineer that will be responsible for validating various settop client codes on Motorola and Scientific Atlanta boxes against legacy and in-development AVDN platforms. It is critical that the candidate possesses extensive knowledge and test experience with STBs and application regression. Experience in Windows configuration, SQL, Linux, Javascript, Perl is a plus.

Required Qualifications/Skills/Education:

4+ years software quality assurance experience

Software development skills:

JavaScript, Perl, SQL

System Experience:

Windows, Linux systems
Web services, Apache, IIS
IP network

ActiveVideo Networks offers competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life, 401K, and PTO starting at 15 days for the first year of service.

Note, there is no relocation offered for this position, local candidates preferred.

EEO Employer