There's somebody making sure cable TV is watchable on tablets and smartphone, and that person might just be in downtown Denver working at
Comcast VIPER (Video Internet Protocol Engineering & Research), a company within the company that's making the digital world more seamless.
"We make sure that video is ready to play on anything outside a set-top box," explains Elizabeth Perlmuter, VIPER recruiter.
The Comcast unit, which Perlmuter says operates like a startup within Comcast, also provides alternate content and big data services as well. "Our office looks very different than any other Comcast office out there," she says. "Denver is a great community for this type of atmosphere."
That's just one of the reasons the division is located in Denver. Another is location. "We're optimally placed in the United States to handle a lot of video," explains software engineer Neill Kipp."If you're on the East Coast you have a satellite overhead that reaches to Denver and if you're on the West Coast there's a satellite overhead that reaches to Denver. So we're able to uplink and downlink from both East and West Coast satellites." He also points to Denver's proximity
CableLabs, an nonprofit R&D consortium for the cable industry in Louisville.
Perlmuter says the company now has 60 to 70 full time employees in Denver and up to 40 contractors across the country. She adds that the company anticipates hiring on 41 more employees in 2015, primarily software engineers. She's currently posting some positions at the Colorado Technology Association's jobs board but also has a Stack Overflow page
here.
The company works with Java, C++ and Golang, Perlmuter says. "We're building the new technologies that Comcast is going to use in the IP video world."
Contact Confluence Denver Innovation & Jobs News Editor Chris Meehan with tips and leads for future stories at chris@confluence-denver.com.
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