Intetics Inc., a global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions, is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal / Lead C++ Systems Engineer — Remote Desktop / WebRTC / VDI to join our dynamic team on a full-time basis.
We need a senior hands-on engineer to lead the design and implementation of a cross-platform remote desktop client built on top of an RDP-compatible/open-source foundation and optimized for real-time audio/video collaboration inside VDI environments. The role combines protocol engineering, multimedia optimization, desktop client development, networking/tunneling, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Define the client architecture and technical roadmap
- Lead implementation of an RDP-compatible client with enhanced media and collaboration behavior
- Design and validate a strategy for audio/video optimization, redirection, compression, and additional data channels
- Own integration with tunnelled VDI connectivity and endpoint device handling
- Build proof-of-concepts and de-risk the hardest items early: media path, Teams/Zoom/Meet behavior, reconnect/session resilience
- Set coding standards, review architecture, and guide 2–4 implementation engineers
- Deliver executable, source code, documentation, and knowledge transfer at project close
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in C/C++ systems engineering
- Proven delivery of desktop client software on at least two of: Windows, Linux, macOS
- Strong background in real-time communications: WebRTC, VoIP, RTP/RTCP, SRTP, ICE/TURN, jitter/latency handling
- Experience with low-latency audio/video pipelines and media troubleshooting in constrained network conditions
- Experience with remote display / virtualization / VDI / thin client / protocol products
- Ability to work close to the protocol layer: transport, channels, device redirection, compression, session management
- Experience integrating or modifying open-source infrastructure and contributing back upstream when needed
- Strong performance mindset: CPU/GPU usage, memory footprint, startup time, reconnect behavior, QoS under packet loss
Will be a plus
- Direct experience with FreeRDP, RDP internals, virtual channels, or adjacent stacks
- Experience with media redirection/offload in VDI or thin-client products
- Deep knowledge of Windows audio/video stack, plus at least one of CoreAudio/macOS or PulseAudio/PipeWire/Linux
- Background in Qt or another mature cross-platform desktop UI framework
- Experience with FFmpeg, GStreamer, libwebrtc, hardware acceleration, echo cancellation, and device routing
- Security experience around secure transport, auth flows, certificate handling, sandboxing, and protocol hardening
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What We Do
Intetics Inc. is a leading American technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams creation, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions built with SMAC, RPA, AI/ML, IoT, blockchain, and GIS/UAV/LBS technologies. Based on proprietary pioneering business models of Offshore Dedicated Team® and Remote In-Sourcing®, an advanced Technical Debt Reduction Platform (TETRA™) and measurable SLAs for software engineering, Intetics helps innovative organizations capitalize on global talent with our in-depth engineering expertise based on our Predictive Software Engineering framework. Intetics core strength lays in design of software products in conditions of incomplete specifications. We have extensive industry expertise in Education, Healthcare, Logistics, Life Sciences, Finance, Insurance, Communications, and custom ERP, CRM, Intelligent Automation and Geospatial solutions. Our advanced software engineering background and outstanding quality management platform, along with an unparalleled methodology for talent acquisition, team building and talent retention, guarantee that our clients receive exceptional results for their projects. At Intetics, our outcomes do not just meet clients expectations, they have been exceeding them for a quarter of a century. Intetics operates from multiple offices in the USA, Europe and Latin America, hiring the best talent available worldwide. Intetics is ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 27001 (security) certified and a Microsoft Gold, Amazon, and UiPath Silver partner. The company’s innovation and growth achievements are reflected in winning prestigious titles and awards, including Inc5000, Software 500, CRN 100, American Business, Deloitte Fast 50, European IT Excellence, Best European BPO, Stevie People’s Choice, Clutch and ACQ5 Awards, IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 and Fortune Innovative 300 lists.
