AI Architect - Media
Dolby Laboratories1 month ago
Base Salary
$176k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define AI/ML technology strategy and technical guidelines across audio processing, video processing, personalization, cloud, edge, and embedded environments.
- Bridge ML research and product engineering teams to integrate production-ready models with DSPs, hardware accelerators, and shipped products.
- Establish data governance standards for data sourcing, cleaning, and pipeline management with Data Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with QA teams on testing methodologies for AI/ML systems.
- Work with GPU and NPU vendors and platform partners on architectures, toolchains, performance, roadmaps, and capability gaps.
- Profile models, benchmark inference, evaluate accuracy-latency tradeoffs, and apply retraining, pruning, quantization, distillation, operator fusion, and hardware-aware optimization.
- Port models across frameworks and runtimes, and build prototypes and proofs of concept to reduce technical risk.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant hands-on experience in AI, machine learning, and embedded software engineering.
- Strong software engineering skills, including production-quality coding, version control, testing, build systems, and software delivery pipelines.
- Experience with at least one major AI/ML framework such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or ONNX.
- Hands-on experience deploying optimized ML models using techniques such as quantization, pruning, and distillation.
- Experience with edge or on-device ML and constraints including latency, power, memory, and thermal limits.
- Familiarity with CPU, GPU, NPU, and DSP architectures and toolchains such as Qualcomm Hexagon/QNN, MediaTek APU/NeuroPilot, ARM Ethos, or Apple Neural Engine.
- Experience in audio, video, signal processing, media codecs, or closely related technical domains.
- Preferred qualifications include defining technical strategy, influencing cross-functional teams, shipping ML models on resource-constrained devices, real-time audio/video inference, Dolby technologies or comparable media standards, generative AI for audio or video, open-source ML contributions, or peer-reviewed research.
Benefits
- Full-time position with a flexible Flex Work approach supporting where, when, and how employees work.
- Benefits, bonus, and potential equity in addition to base salary.
- Salary range varies by work location, with location-specific perks and benefits discussed during hiring.
Tech Stack
PyTorchTensorFlow
Categories
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.