Senior Software Engineer, Application and OS Enablement
Dolby LaboratoriesResponsibilities
- Build and maintain OTT testing, demo, and reference applications for consumer device platforms.
- Identify platform API limitations, missing functionality, and ecosystem integration gaps.
- Troubleshoot issues across applications, operating systems, media frameworks, software versions, and device configurations.
- Assess Dolby audio and video capabilities for OTT services across the installed device base.
- Prototype solutions within applications and operating systems and define OS-specific architectures, workarounds, and integration approaches.
- Collaborate with OS platform owners, Dolby engineering teams, product stakeholders, and external technical partners to support Dolby capability adoption.
- Provide OS-specific technical guidance and documentation for app developers and Dolby’s developer portal.
- Build demo, reference, and testing applications and resolve issues in underlying integration layers.
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, STB, or consumer device platforms.
- Good understanding of operating system concepts, application/runtime integration, media playback pipelines, APIs, and system configuration.
- Strong debugging skills across application and platform boundaries, including 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, and communicate clearly with engineering and product stakeholders.
- Comfort writing technical documentation for engineers, platform teams, and app developers.
- Preferred experience with OTT services, streaming media, media players, Chromium, Web APIs, or platform browser stacks.
- Preferred experience with Android TV, TV/STB platforms, media frameworks, audio/video pipelines, middleware, or OS platform integration.
- Familiarity with consumer audio/video technologies, Dolby technologies, or related device integrations is preferred.
- Experience with platform vendors, OS owners, industry standards groups, external technical partners, reference apps, certification tools, test automation, or ecosystem validation is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible Flex Work approach supporting where, when, and how employees work.
- Collegial culture, challenging projects, opportunities for recognition, and excellent compensation and benefits.
- Opportunity to work on Dolby technology across consumer devices, operating systems, and OTT services.
About Dolby Laboratories
We're the rain on the roof in a movie. The music flowing through your earbuds when you're at the gym. The footsteps lurking behind you in a video game. The voice of a colleague on a call who seems to be right next to you. The sight of a breathtakingly bright and vivid sunset on your TV. Making experiences come alive through technology is what we do. It's been our mission since day one. It began with our founder, Ray Dolby, a visionary scientist and inventor. As a young engineer and music lover, he was driven to improve the listening experience. And with that simple motivation, plus countless hours of experimentation, he created a solution—a solution that was elegant and practical, highly sophisticated, and wholly devoted to the artist's vision. Even as we've become a global company, Dolby Laboratories continues to reflect Ray Dolby's values. Here, science meets art. And high tech goes far beyond computer code. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in San Francisco, Dolby has grown into a leading global innovator and developer of audio, imaging and voice technologies for cinema, home theaters, PCs, mobile phones, and games. Our products include Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Dolby Voice, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. Today, over 2,000 individuals around the globe share their talents and energy to enable the most immersive experiences that technology can deliver.