AI Architect - Media
Dolby Laboratories13 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define AI/ML technology strategy and forward-looking technical vision across audio processing, video processing, personalization, cloud, edge, and embedded environments.
- Establish guidelines and best practices for building, training, optimizing, and deploying ML models.
- Bridge ML research and product engineering teams by defining architectures and integrating ML models with traditional audio/video processing, DSPs, and hardware accelerators.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams on data governance, sourcing, cleaning, and pipeline standards, and with QA teams on AI/ML testing methodologies.
- Work with GPU, NPU, and silicon vendors on architecture gaps, toolchains, performance, roadmaps, and platform capabilities.
- Profile models, benchmark inference, evaluate accuracy-latency tradeoffs, optimize models, port models across frameworks and runtimes, and build prototypes and proofs of concept.
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, and 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 associated toolchains, including 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 technical strategy, cross-functional influence, production ML deployment on mobile or embedded devices, real-time audio/video inference, Dolby technologies or comparable media standards, generative AI for audio or video, open-source contributions, or peer-reviewed research.
Benefits
- Flexible Flex Work approach supporting where, when, and how employees work best.
- Full-time position with bonus, benefits, and potential equity for some roles.
- San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range of $176,000-$215,000, with location-dependent ranges outside the area.
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.