Senior Software Engineer, Application and OS Enablement
Dolby Laboratories28 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain OTT testing, demo, and reference applications across consumer device platforms.
- Identify missing APIs, platform limitations, and functionality gaps affecting Dolby ecosystem enablement.
- Troubleshoot issues across applications, operating systems, media frameworks, software versions, and device configurations.
- Analyze gaps in audio and video capabilities, media playback, platform APIs, and integration layers.
- Prototype solutions inside applications and operating systems and define OS-specific architectures and workarounds.
- Collaborate with OS platform owners, Dolby engineering teams, product stakeholders, and external technical partners.
- Provide OS-specific guidance and technical documentation for app developers, including developer portal content.
- Build demo, reference, and testing applications and resolve issues for other Dolby application teams.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience in C++, Kotlin, Java, or similar application and platform-development languages.
- Experience building, debugging, or integrating applications on Android, Linux-based, embedded, TV, set-top box, or consumer-device platforms.
- Understanding of operating system concepts, application/runtime integration, media playback pipelines, APIs, and system configuration.
- Strong debugging skills across application and platform boundaries using logs, traces, device configuration, software versions, and integration layers.
- Ability to analyze technical gaps, propose practical solutions, and validate them through prototypes.
- Experience with test applications, reference implementations, automated test environments, or ecosystem validation tools.
- Ability to work independently, make technical trade-offs, communicate clearly with engineering and product stakeholders, and write technical documentation.
- Preferred experience with OTT services, streaming media, media players, Chromium, Web APIs, platform browser stacks, Android TV, TV/set-top box platforms, media frameworks, audio/video pipelines, middleware, OS integration, certification tools, or ecosystem validation.
- Preferred familiarity with consumer audio/video technologies, Dolby technologies, platform vendors, OS owners, standards groups, or external technical partners.
Benefits
- Flexible Flex Work approach supporting where, when, and how employees work.
- Collegial culture, challenging projects, meaningful technical ownership, and opportunities to contribute to Dolby’s home entertainment business.
- Work on consumer-device, operating-system, and OTT technology used by engineering teams and ecosystem partners.
- Excellent compensation and benefits are offered, with no specific compensation figures stated.
About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories develops audio, imaging, and voice technologies—such as Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision—licensed to device makers, streaming platforms, game studios, and cinemas. The NYSE-listed company (ticker: DLB), founded in 1965 and headquartered in San Francisco, also provides software and hardware for content creation and playback, generating revenue primarily from technology licensing and cinema products used in theaters worldwide.