Media Pipeline Engineer
Import, export, codecs, transcode, proxies and media management — the layer that makes the editor work with real-world footage.
Apply for this roleWhy this role matters
Real footage from a real set never comes in one clean format — it's ProRes from an Alexa, BRAW from a Pocket 6K, H.265 from a drone, all in the same timeline. Our Wiz-Live vision — ingest that starts before the camera even stops rolling — is worthless if this layer can't make sense of what actually shows up. That's this role.
What you'll own
Import/export, codec support, transcode pipeline, proxy generation, media management, format detection, metadata handling — the unglamorous layer that makes the editor actually work with real-world footage.
Modules
- Media (import/export/link)
- Media Management (relink, consolidate, missing media)
- Interchange / Conform (EDL, XML, AAF, OMF)
- Proxy workflow
- Thumbnails / Waveforms
What we're looking for
Must-have
- Deep FFmpeg or GStreamer expertise
- Codec internals (ProRes, H.264/5, BRAW, R3D, DNx, etc.)
- Broadcast or post-production pipeline experience
- Dealt with the nightmare of camera-manufacturer formats
Nice to have
- Experience with camera SDKs (RED, Blackmagic, ARRI)
- Cloud transcoding pipelines
- Understanding of color space and HDR metadata
About Wizard
Every so often, a new technology redefines how stories get told: the printing press, the telephone, radio, the film camera, the cutting room, television, the digital camera, non-linear editing. We think we're at the start of the next one, and we intend to build the company that defines it.
Wizard is a research, innovation, engineering, and manufacturing company built to be the Bell Labs of creative tooling — one clear mission, one system, built to last. Adobe took creative professionals from analog to digital: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects defined how a generation creates. But Adobe was built for that paradigm — pixels, timelines, layers, keyframes. It won't rebuild itself for the AI age; it will bolt AI onto software that's decades old. We're building what comes next, from scratch.
Our philosophy is creative as code: every decision editable, controllable, composable — never generative slop you regenerate and hope for the best. Controllability over convenience. Artist integrity over automation. Taste over throughput.
Wizard is the sister company to Story Co, a $6M-revenue production company that is Wizard's first customer and dogfooding partner — every Story production moves onto Wizard by V1. Separate legal entity, separate cap table, same mission.
Sound like you? Email us.
Send a note to info@wizard.inc with the subject line “Application: Media Pipeline Engineer”. Tell us what you've built and why this seat.