Database Research Scientist

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, you’ll 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. We’re 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 benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

Dolby.io is a new developer platform by Dolby Labs that puts decades of Dolby sight and sound technology into the hands of developers to deliver quality in real-time streaming, communications, and media processing solutions — at scale. The platform includes a powerful suite of self-service APIs, SDKs, and sample apps that enable developers to easily deploy real-time streaming services with sub-second latency, integrate audio/video chat functionality into their apps, and add media processing capabilities into existing workflows to enhance the quality of audio and video files. With its accessibility, ease of use, and best-in-class audio innovation, Dolby.io is powering the future of immersive, interactive, and social online experiences that rival real world experiences.

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. This role offers impactful, project-based work experience in a collaborative, creative environment where you work side by side with industry leaders. Amplify your insatiable curiosity by implementing real-world solutions that revolutionize how people communicate and how entertainment is created, delivered, and enjoyed worldwide. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.

 At Dolby, we’re changing the way the world experiences sight and sound. We enable people to experience music and movies; videos and pictures in all its intended grandeur and make life & work more meaningful and immersive. We give technology to the world’s content creators, owners, and distributors; manufacturers of TV, Mobile, and PC; and social and media platforms; so that they can truly delight their customers. We're the ones behind the astounding sound and sight experiences in the movie theaters and in your living room; on your mobile phones and on the internet.

Advanced Technology Group

ATG is the research and technology arm of Dolby Labs. It has multiple competencies that innovate technologies in audio, video, AR/VR, gaming, music, and movies. Many areas of expertise related to computer science and electrical engineering, such as AI/ML, computer vision, image processing, algorithms, digital signal processing, audio engineering, data science & analytics, distributed systems, cloud, edge & mobile computing, natural language processing, knowledge engineering and management, social network analysis, computer graphics, image & signal compression, computer networking, IoT are highly relevant to our research. 

What you’ll do

Sight and Sound play a large role in our day-to-day experiences. We believe data can play a huge role in making the experiences personalized and resilient. Data is critical to synthesizing experiences that are otherwise unimaginable.

We’re looking for talented database systems and big data management researchers who are excited to advance the state of the art in technologies of interest to Dolby as well as the human society at large. Research in the areas of

data platforms, data science and analytics at Dolby Laboratories focuses on all aspects of large-scale cloud and edge data platforms and services, and novel ways to accelerate discovering insight from data.

We are interested in a variety of topics including big data management, self-service data cleaning and transformation at scale, data quality, search and discovery of structured data, information extraction, time-series and heterogenous data analytics, metadata management, applied AI, machine learning and data mining, data visualization, natural language processing and big data systems including systems’ concerns such as: resource management, storage, caching, query processing, query optimization, security, and privacy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate heterogenous data management techniques and polystore systems, including the application of AI & machine learning techniques to foundational data management problems including data quality, data profiling, data integration and schema matching.
• Develop tools and frameworks to enable scalable development of machine learning models and data science algorithms across heterogenous data domains, including tabular, time series, text, audio and video.
• Create distributed data processing architectures that leverage “compute at the edge” to enable novel use cases and applications such as predictive routing, data-driven experiences, and adaptive environments.
• Work with ATG researchers to understand data-related opportunities in peer researchers’ domains such as applied AI and machine learning in Audio / Video domains.

What you need to succeed

Competencies

• Technical depth: Necessary technical knowledge to create new SW architecture 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.

Desired Background

• PhD in Computer Science, or similar fields
• Background in relational databases, big data systems, and data analytic systems
• Expertise in data management, data cleaning, distributed systems, database storage engines, query processing and query optimization, and applied data science
• Knowledge of statistics and machine learning
• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms
• Familiar with git and project management tools, such as JIRA  
• Excellent problem-solving and partnership skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Relevant publications in data mining / database conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDCS, IEEE BigData, ICDE, KDD, WSDM, ICDM, WEB)
• Bonus: Experience with Databricks / Spark in addition to using multiple Cloud services’ data products and services
• Bonus: Experience with Databricks / Spark in addition to using multiple Cloud services’ data products and services
• Bonus: Experience with AI models and cloud-based software development of AI models.

The Atlanta Area base salary range for this full-time position is $133,500-$163,000 which can vary if outside this location, plus bonus, benefits, and some roles may also include equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:
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.