Dolby Careers Sr. Researcher Multimodal AI

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby science meets art and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team youll see and hear the results of your work everywhere from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create deliver and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that we need the absolute best talent. Were big enough to give you all the resources you need and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture challenging projects and excellent compensation and benefitsnot to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where when and how you do your best work.

Dolbys research division is looking for an AI researcher to join Dolbys research efforts to develop the next generation of AI based audio and video technologies. The candidate will work with Dolbys world-class audio and vision experts to invent new multimedia analysis processing and rendering technologies. As a part of an international team the senior staff research engineer will work on ideas exploring new horizons in audio processing analysis replay and organization. The researcher is responsible for performing fundamental new research transferring technology to product groups and draft patent applications.

Summary

Dolbys research division is currently looking for a talented self-motivated AI researcher to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in audio and media technologies. An ideal candidate would have a strong background in deep learning both in terms of conceptual understanding as well as practical experience. A core aspect of this role involves being able to keep up to date with the literature implement and innovate with the bleeding edge in generative models self-supervised learning and multi-modal learning. Consequently knowledge or experience in any/all the following are helpful:

Diffusion autoregressive or other generative models.
Self-supervised contrastive learning auto-encoders.
Audio image or text applications Source separation text-to-speech music synthesis image segmentation image captioning question answering language models etc.

With the explosion of large language models and natural language processing the candidate will work closely with Dolbys Applied AI team which actively pursues the integration of such models into audio and media experiences. Prospective candidates would be expected to hit the ground running innovate and contribute to such projects. Consequently experience with language models question answering vision-language models captioning etc. would be highly beneficial.

Main responsibilities:

• Work closely with other domain experts to refine and execute Dolbys technical strategy in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Use deep learning to create new solutions and enhance existing applications.
• Push the state-of-the-art and develop intellectual property.
• Transfer technology to product groups and draft patent applications.
• Advise internal leaders on recent deep learning advancements in the industry and academia to further influence research direction and business decisions.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in computer science or similar with a focus on deep learning. Knowledge in audio video or text processing is desirable.
• Strong publication record with publications in major machine learning conferences (e.g. NeurIPS ICLR ICML). Publications in top domain-specific conferences is desirable (e.g. ACL CVPR ICASSP AAAI CVPR CHI VIS WACV)
• Good knowledge about current machine learning literature.
• Highly skilled in Python and one or more popular deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow or PyTorch)
• Ability to envision new technologies and turn them into innovative products Creativity.
• Good communication skills
• HCI experience in conjunction with AI is nice to have but not a requirment

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