Senior Distributed Research Engineer

 

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

 

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is the research division of the company. ATG’s mission is to look ahead, deliver insights, and innovate technological solutions that will fuel Dolby’s continued growth. Our researchers have a broad range of expertise related to computer science and electrical engineering, such as AI/ML, algorithms, digital signal processing, audio engineering, image processing, computer vision, data science & analytics, distributed systems, cloud, edge & mobile computing, computer networking, and IoT.

 

We’re looking for talented Distributed Systems and Stream Processing researchers who are excited to advance the state of the art in technologies of interest to Dolby as well as the human society at large. Research in the areas of data platforms, distributed processing systems, and data science at Dolby Laboratories focuses on all aspects of large-scale cloud and edge data platforms and services, and novel ways to accelerate discovering insight from data.  We are interested in a variety of topics including large-scale distributed systems, stream processing, edge computing, applied machine learning and AI, big graphs, natural language processing, big data management, and heterogenous data analytics.

Specifically, we are looking for applied distributed systems and stream processing researchers who are passionate about combining science with art—translating research into AI-enabled, low latency real-time streaming systems and applications, which enable the next generation of immersive experiences.

We believe data can play a huge role in making the experiences personalized and resilient. Data is critical to synthesizing experiences that are otherwise unimaginable. We welcome the opportunity to have you join our growing Atlanta Advanced Technology Research team.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate, design, and develop advanced distributed software architectures and stream processing platforms to enable real-time, complex event and stream processing that deliver Dolby’s next gen Audio/Visual experiences in the cloud or on end-user devices.
• Design and implement novel algorithms, data structures, and protocols to support scalable, reliable, and efficient training and inference of AI/ML models deployed in distributed computing environments.
• Develop new platforms and tools that enable an amazing variety of interactive and immersive data-driven experiences informed by AI-based, acoustic, and other techniques to infer context of both content and the world around us.
• Collecting and analyzing unstructured data, applying data analysis skills and data mining to understand customer behavior or enable novel systems’ experiments.

• Partner with ATG researchers to understand data and advanced distributed system-related opportunities in adjacent research domains such as applied AI and machine learning in Audio / Video domains.

 What you need to succeed

Competencies

• Technical depth: Necessary technical knowledge to create new SW architecture, platforms, and enabling systems needed for real-time, just-in-time processing for audio/video algorithms running on distributed fashion between cloud and edge devices. Basic knowledge on Audio/Video streaming formats.
• Explore new technologies: Openness to learn new areas and innovate in the new areas.
• Invent & Innovate: Develop short and long-term technologies, algorithms and software tools that will help make Dolby a world leader in enhancing the sight and sound associated with digital content consumption. Then influence and collaborate with BG partners put the technology into production.
• Work with a sense of Urgency: Responds aggressively to changing trends and new technologies and creates new algorithms to capitalize on them. Takes appropriate risks to be ahead of the competition and the market.
• Collaborate: Collaborate with and influence peers in developing industry-leading technologies. Work with external trendsetters and technology drivers in academia and in partner enterprises.

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