Staff Field Application Engineer, Dolby Vision

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.

 

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices.

 

Dolby is redefining High Dynamic Range (HOR) Imaging systems for delivering breathtaking experiences in the Cinema, in the home and on the go. Our long-standing commitment to research and development enables our focus to remain on solutions that work today and are prepared for the future. That's what keeps us on the leading edge of the industry.

Our company philosophy encourages creativity, collaboration, and the desire to perceive things differently. We have been recognized as one of the top 100 best places to work in the Bay Area. We offer a unique and rich array of benefits, including a flexible work schedule and an assortment of health coverage options. We're always looking for talented individuals to join our team.

 

The Commercial Partnerships team is looking for a Dolby Vision Staff Applications Field  Engineer to work as part of a team to deeply support, design and launch Dolby Vision services on the platforms of some of the largest media companies in the world. As a Dolby Vision Staff Applications Engineer in this area, you will serve as a market facing technical resource and direct liaison between Dolby's US Commercial Partnerships team and the largest Streaming, Pay TV  and Broadcast networks in the world who are defining this market and are expanding their businesses to capture, create and deliver Movies, Episodic and Live content in Dolby Vision.

Coordinating with account leads and your team members, you will be managing and documenting multiple projects with different workflows, identifying workflow pinch-points and leveraging both your own skills and those of the team to deliver the ideal architecture workflow to our partners. The ideal candidate will have experience in and deep technical knowledge of broadcast and streaming video workflows and trends, as well as end-to-end, "creation to delivery" architecture and deep, integration-level experience with video technologies (HEVC/H.265/AV1) for encoding and decoding in Pay TV and Streaming delivery, to every platform, screen type and device.

 

Essential Job Functions:

Provide detailed integration support and deep technical knowledge to the customer base for the Dolby Vision enabled ecosystems across Pay TV, TV Networks and Streaming partners. Workflow problems will require in-depth evaluation of many elements including mezzanine, encoding, packaging, decoding, networking and production.

 

Evangelize Dolby Vision to customers in sales meetings, together with team members and account leads.  Provide technology demonstrations as appropriate for both value-add and deeper technical discussions. You will be the Dolby Vision Subject Matter Expert in many sales meetings and technical meetings, focused on driving customers' to Dolby Vision as a premium deliverable which is achievable in their workflow.

 

You will interact with various internal groups to identify and resolve technical challenges on behalf of Dolby Vision HOR enabled ecosystems. Projects will require specialized technical knowledge of Dolby encoding and media processing products and SDKs, as well as other technologies in the ecosystem.

 

Be the "voice of the customer" when discussing Dolby Vision with engineering and product management, broadening Dolby's knowledge base through understanding technical trends and objectives that consider practical, real-world use cases. Work with Product and Technology groups within Dolby to resolve partner issues and improve Dolby tools and deliverables. Help define and improve integration and testing processes.

Embrace self-improvement and the mentorship of others. Participate generously in helping to develop the ov