Hey! We’re hiring Windows Media Center developers!

We have an open position in our team and are looking for capable candidates  :-)

 

Description:

Software Development Engineer – Personal TV PC Platforms
Job Title: Software Development Engineer, Personal TV PC Platforms
Location: Berlin, Germany
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Director, Engineering

We are seeking a qualified candidate to help develop and support an exciting new tv service for a range of personal computer platforms, with initial focus on the European and North American markets. The service consists of a great state of the art personalised program recommendation technology, combined with leading program guide, metadata and targeted advertising delivery system. The offering is supported by an extensive range of intellectual property and global relationships with leading software and hardware providers.

The Software Development Engineer position will report to the Director of Engineering, and is located in Berlin, Germany.

Responsibilities:
- Involvement in whole project life cycle
- Develop market-ready consumer products together with product / design team
- Develop products / components according to specifications alone, in teams or with outsourcing partners
- Explore new technologies and platforms, and investigate opportunities to use these for new products
- Deployment together with major OEM partners, including project management tasks
- Work with QA / support team on maintenance and bug fixing

Experience:
- Experienced C# Software developer with knowledge of C++ on Windows
- At least 2 years of hands-on work experience in application software development on Microsoft platforms, preferably for consumer-oriented multimedia software products and services
- Experience with TV software solutions, media center software, media streaming and / or broadcast
- Experience with the development of plugins for Windows Media Center highly desired
- Proven ability to meet qualitative goals and consistently meet deadlines

Critical Competencies:
- Visual Studio C#, C++, .NET
- Good knowledge of the Windows environment (Vista and Windows 7 32/64bit, UAC etc.)
- Results-oriented, self-motivated team player
- Good communication skills, both written and oral, and willingness to work in an international, decentrally organised team
- Outstanding analytical, operational and time management skills and great attention to detail and quality
- Ability to see a problem from multiple angles and propose and evaluate solutions
- Independent hard working individual with superior teamwork skills

Useful skills:
- Vista Media Center Development skills: MCML, related .NET APIs
- Windows libraries: WCF, BITS, Com Interop and Win32 APIs
- InstallShield experience is a plus
- Front-end GUI skills on Windows: WPF, MCML, Silverlight etc.
- Good knowledge of the Media Center software and the one on Vista / Windows 7 in particular
- SQL database development experience
- Web services and web-based applications

Education/Languages:
Bachelor or masters degree in engineering or computer science (or equivalent experience from project work). Fluent spoken and written English is mandatory; German highly desired.

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Interested?  Then send me your CV to  olcay@buyan.de  and I’ll forward it our internal HR department.

Olcay

Fiji solves issues on HP tx2650eg Tablet PCs

A few days ago I’ve refreshed my Home Office setup:

• HP tx2650eg Tablet PC
• HP w2408h – 24″ screen
• HP LaserJet 1020 – laser printer
• HP xb3000 – docking station

I like the HP w2408h screen, I can connect my Linksys extender to it and simply switch btween input sources (docking station / extender). However, I was facing some really strange problems when running WMCPL applications on the HP tx2650eg. Windows Media Center runs perfect from day one – I can watch TV, record shows and watch DVDs etc.

But… as soon as I launched any “external” WMCPL application, the User Interface and especially videos were some how a little bit “lazy” and finally freezed – even the Media Centers own transport controls (play/pause, stop, etc.) on the right bottom didn’t respond anymore. It was really anoying and HPs support buddies couldn’t help me at all - I was about to send the whole setup back and get something from ASUS.

However, after installing Fiji, everything seems to work just fine.