Sr. Edge Apps Research Engineer
Dolby
- Atlanta, GA
- $144,600-176,700 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Investigate, design, and develop advanced edge computing architectures and delivery platforms to enable real-time, just-in-time processing with AI that deliver Dolby's next gen Audio/Visual experiences in the cloud or on end-user devices.
- Design and implement novel algorithms, data structures, and protocols to optimize training and inference of AI/ML models deployed in edge devices and real-time streaming applications.
- Develop new platforms and tools that enable an amazing variety of interactive and immersive data-driven experiences informed by AI-based, acoustic, and other techniques to infer context of both content and the world around us.
- Collecting and analyzing unstructured data, applying data analysis skills and data mining to understand customer behavior or enable novel systems' experiments.
- Partner with ATG researchers to understand advanced cloud, data, and edge system-related opportunities in adjacent research domains such as applied AI and machine learning in Audio / Video domains.
- Technical depth: Necessary technical knowledge to create new SW architecture, platforms, and enabling systems needed for real-time, just-in-time processing for audio/video algorithms running on distributed fashion between cloud and edge devices. Basic knowledge on Audio/Video streaming formats.
- Explore new technologies: Openness to learn new areas and innovate in the new areas.
- Invent & Innovate: Develop short and long-term technologies, algorithms and software tools that will help make Dolby a world leader in enhancing the sight and sound associated with digital content consumption. Then influence and collaborate with BG partners put the technology into production.
- Work with a sense of Urgency: Responds aggressively to changing trends and new technologies and creates new algorithms to capitalize on them. Takes appropriate risks to be ahead of the competition and the market.
- Collaborate: Collaborate with and influence peers in developing industry-leading technologies. Work with external trendsetters and technology drivers in academia and in partner enterprises.
- PhD in Computer Science, or similar fields
- Knowledge of statistics, data science, AI/machine learning, big data management
- Strong proficiency in Python and an additional language (e.g., C++, Golang, Rust, etc)
- Experience with implementing AI/ML/computer vision in media processing applications like real time, low latency streaming on edge/mobile device
- Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, ONNX, Tensorflow on edge systems and understand common model optimization techniques like quantization, sparsification
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging edge AI systems, addressing performance bottlenecks and issues, and optimizing their power and heat profiles
- Experience with AI/ML models, cloud-optimization, and software development patterns
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP or other public clouds, including serverless services.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, etc), bash, UNIX/Linux commands, etc
- Familiar with git and project management tools, such as JIRA
- Excellent problem-solving and partnership skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Relevant publications in cloud and edge systems conferences (e.g., SOSP, ASPLOS, OSDI, SC, HPCA, NSDI, FAST, SoCC, TinyML, VLSI Symposium)
- Desired: Knowledge of Audio/Video streaming formats
- Bonus: Experience with Databricks / Spark in addition to using multiple Cloud services' data products and services
Dolby is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.