AI Architect - Media
Dolby Laboratories21 days ago
Base Salary
$152k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and guide AI/ML technology strategy across audio processing, video processing, personalization, cloud, edge, and embedded environments.
- Establish technical guidelines and best practices for building, training, optimizing, and deploying ML models.
- Act as the technical interface between ML research teams, software engineering teams, platform managers, and external silicon vendors.
- Define architectures integrating traditional audio/video processing, DSPs, hardware accelerators, and ML models.
- Investigate, profile, benchmark, and evaluate ML models across accuracy, latency, power, memory, and thermal tradeoffs.
- Apply retraining, pruning, quantization, distillation, operator fusion, and hardware-aware optimization techniques.
- Guide model porting across PyTorch, ONNX, and vendor-specific runtimes.
- Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to reduce technical risk before full engineering investment.
- Collaborate on data governance, data sourcing, data cleaning, pipeline management, and AI/ML testing methodologies.
- Influence silicon vendor and platform partner roadmaps, tooling, operator support, and hardware capabilities.
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 acquired over many years of professional practice.
- 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, distillation, or operator fusion.
- Experience with edge or on-device ML and constraints involving latency, power, memory, and thermal limits.
- Familiarity with CPU, GPU, NPU, and DSP architectures and related 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 experience shipping ML models to resource-constrained devices such as mobile, embedded, automotive, or wearable systems.
- Preferred experience with real-time audio/video inference, Dolby technologies or comparable media standards, generative AI in audio or video, open-source ML tools, or peer-reviewed research.
Benefits
- Flex Work supports flexible choices about where, when, and how to work.
- The full-time role offers bonus, benefits, and some roles may include equity.
- Compensation varies by work location, with location-specific ranges and perks 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.