Are you ready to transform higher education?
While finding employees who meet the specific requirements of a job is important, our team shines because of a shared set of highly-regarded personal characteristics. At Echo360 we are:
- Passionate about education.
- Self-motivated and intelligent with the stamina to work in a high-performance environment.
- Collaborative and work as a team.
- Dedicated to servicing our customers and exceeding their expectations.
- Friendly and fun – we work hard and play hard.
- Dedicated to our individual success as well as the success of the organization.
- Open to learning and to thinking outside of the box.
To apply for any of the positions listed here please forward your resume and cover letter to HR@echo360.com and include the job title in the subject line. No agencies please. For US-based positions, candidates must be local and eligible to work in the United States for any employer.
Echo360 is proud to be an EOE/M/F/V/D employer.
Location: Dulles, VA, United States (Corporate Headquarters)
About the Job
You’ll put your skills to use implementing new audio, video, and display capture and streaming capabilities; working on our distributed system for capture and data processing control and; supporting and maintaining the existing product line to meet the demands of an exploding, dynamic, digital education media marketplace.
Responsibilities
- Specify, design, implement, and test new audio, video, and display capture capabilities (C/C++).
- Implement and extend our platform’s real-time multimedia streaming capabilities (Gstreamer).
- Maintain and extend a distributed system that controls automated capture and media processing.
About You
- You have a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You have a minimum of 5+ years recent experience designing and developing applications using C/C++, including experience with C/C++ using MS Visual Studio on Windows and using Gnu development tools on Linux.
- You know object-oriented design and implementation like the back of your hand.
- You have strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- You’re a team-oriented person who wants to work in a fun, dynamic, fast-paced development environment.
- You’ll earn extra credit if you have experience with:
- Video/audio processing software (2+ years).
- Programming and integrating with hardware for video/audio capture and compression.
- DirectShow, H.264, Flash, FFMPEG, and QuickTime SDK.
- Multimedia streaming, specifically the Gstreamer library.
- Mac programming on the OSX platform.
- Scripting (bash, Perl, windows .bat files, etc.).
- Software development in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Embedded software design and implementation (e.g. using DSP platforms).
Location: Dulles, VA, United States (Corporate Headquarters)
About the Job
You’ll be part of a highly motivated team that’s creating application solutions for our video/audio product which captures lectures and allows for live streaming and playback. This role is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of embedded software on ARM Linux and x86 Linux platforms, including management of real-time media acquisition and encoding resources on a system-on-chip (SoC). Other responsibilities may include the design, development and maintenance of higher-level capture and streaming capabilities within the existing software infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Extend and maintain the capabilities of a custom media acquisition board based on the Texas Instruments (TI) DM6467T DaVinci SoC that includes an ARM processor running Linux and a C6400-series DSP for third-party codecs (such as h.264).
- Specify, design, implement, and maintain new audio, video, and display capture capabilities on the next generation custom media acquisition board.
- Work with hardware engineers to bring up the board for the next generation device, which is based on another TI ARM SoC chip-set.
- Develop low-level software for use by Echo360′s integrated media capture infrastructure.
- Maintain and extend a distributed system that controls automated capture and media processing.
About You
- You have a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You have 7+ years experience designing and developing embedded applications using C/C++, including experience with C/C++ using Gnu development tools on Linux.
- You know embedded development, e.g. DSP platforms, microcontrollers, etc. like the back of your hand.
- You have experience with Linux device driver development.
- You know what it takes to develop control software for integrated circuits through reference to their data sheets and to system schematics.
- Object-oriented design and implementation are your friends.
- You have strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- You’ll earn extra credit if you have experience with:
- Embedded development using Texas Instruments’ DSP chips.
- Video/audio processing software experience (2+ years).
- Board bring-up for custom hardware.
- u-Boot.
- Programming and integrating with hardware for video/audio capture and compression, specifically for h.264 and AAC codecs.
- Software video technologies such as h.264, FFMPEG, DirectShow, Flash and/or QuickTime SDK.
- C/C++ using MS Visual Studio on Windows.
- Multimedia streaming, specifically the Gstreamer library.
- Mac Programming on OSX platform.
Location: Dulles, VA, United States (Corporate Headquarters)
About the Job
You’ll be responsible for research and development for the Engineering team including innovation in Java-based applications for the existing product line in addition to Echo360′s next generation products. Duties also include innovating, designing, and implementing solutions that extend and transcend the Echo360 software platform.
Responsibilities
- Specify, design, implement and test components for the enterprise level Java-based EchoSystem Server.
About You
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree/experience.
- You have 4+ years of experience designing and developing scalable enterprise systems using Java.
- Scalable distributed software design and implementation are your friends.
- You know object-oriented design and implementation like the back of your hand.
- You have experience working on project teams of 5 or more developers.
- You have excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- You’ll earn extra credit if you have experience with:
- Hibernate and Spring frameworks.
- Designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
- Linux, Win32 and OSX server development.
- Web user interface development including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax.
- Video/audio processing software, and media technologies and transformation.
Echo360 is currently seeking a candidate for the role of Manager of Corporate Development.
Location: Sterling, Virginia
Profile: This position requires a motivated self-starter energized by the rapid pace and limited structure of venture backed start ups. Your exceptional academic credentials from a top-tier university will provide you with the foundation to succeed in this role.
Our Manager of Corporate Development will play a key role in the growth of the company by evaluating mergers and acquisition opportunities, analyzing business unit financial performance, developing product and pricing strategy, and a wide range of other ad hoc activities as they come up. The individual will report to the CFO/SVP Corporate Development and work very closely with the CEO, and interact with senior managers in the business as well as with members of the board of directors.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A bachelors degree (required) with outstanding economics/finance classwork as part of the degree program.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, including financial modeling, as demonstrated by 1-3 years post bachelors degree experience in a world class management consulting or investment banking environment. Will also consider or other relevant experience that demonstrates hard-core analytic and quantitative abilities.
- Strong communication skills including the ability to design and develop structured presentations, present results of work and analysis in both formal and informal settings with senior managers, board members and other stakeholders internal and external to the business.
- Proficient understanding of technology, the software industry, and/or higher education.
- Mastery of MS Excel and Powerpoint. Familiarity with Salesforce.com and other analytical/database management tools preferred.
- The flexibility to do everything that needs to be done in order to make Echo360 successful.
- Local candidates preferred; will consider those who are open to relocation (with limited assistance from the company).
- Pre-MBA candidates must be willing to commit 2 years of work.
About Echo360, Inc.
Echo360 envisions an opportunity for every student to be freed from traditional barriers to learning with an on-demand education experience. Full-time, part-time, distance, continuing, and online all describe today's student living in a 24/7 world. On-demand media and education converge at Echo360, helping colleges and universities engage students on the students' terms with full and unbounded access to classroom-based content via multiplatform replay. Developed in partnership with the University of Western Australia, Echo360 means scalable and affordable lecture capture solutions that can provide institutions of all sizes with universal availability of lecture content.
Location: Dulles, Virginia (Echo360 Headquarters)
Reporting to: Captain Awesome - Marketing Department
Responsibilities:
The Marketing Events Intern will assist in supporting the Events Manager with a variety of corporate events. Intern will have the opportunity to be highly involved in the organization, implementation and execution marketing promotions and events. Events Intern will be responsible for conducting a variety of tasks including logistical event support, ordering show services, shipping and other tasks as needed.
The Marketing Events Intern will be responsible for the following specific activities:
- Assist the Echo360 Events Manager with event logistics for tradeshows, user meetings, sales meetings, regional event program, shipping, ordering of promotional items and show services, and writing basic event-related internal communications.
- Coordinate show services with vendors and event organizers.
- Research and monitor event promotions on social media outlets.
- Coordinate domestic and international shipments for various programs and campaigns.
- Basic budget tracking and data entry.
- Manage and reconciliate monthly marketing credit card expenses.
- Maintain calendar of events and update website.
- Monitor supply and order promotional items.
- Available to work a minimum 20 hours per week.
- Other marketing and administrative tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate upperclassman (Senior) or recent graduate, preferably with a Marketing and/or Business major
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to multi-task
- Strong work ethic with proven ability to work independently
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds
- Ability to function effectively in a high-performance, professional environment
- Familiarity with the higher education industry a plus
Technical Skills Requirements:
- Proficiency in MS Windows applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required.
- Experience using Salesforce.com or other customer relationship management (CRM) tools a plus
