Develop and maintain high-performance C++ systems for the end-to-end video pipeline, including real-time video processing, ingest/transcode, and streaming infrastructure. Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in multithreaded low-latency systems, collaborate with Product/QA/DevOps, and work with backend services in Python and Go. Use AI tools (primarily Claude) in the development workflow and contribute to hardware-software integration for embedded/IoT devices.