(Senior) Staff Security Architect, Embedded Systems

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.

JOB SUMMARY:

Join Dolby's Emerging & Systems Technology team as a (Senior) Staff Security Architect, Embedded Systems, helping shape the architecture and technical strategy for Intellectual Property (IP) Security and Cybersecurity across Dolby's technologies, products, and platforms.

In this highly visible, cross-functional role, you will define security architectures and threat models, evaluate emerging security and IP protection technologies, and guide engineering teams in building secure and resilient products. You will work across product, engineering, business, legal, and partner organizations to balance IP protection, cybersecurity risk, performance, cost, and business needs, while influencing Dolby's long-term security architecture and strategy.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:  

• Define and evolve Cybersecurity and Intellectual Property (IP) Security architectures and technical strategy across Dolby technologies, products, and platforms.
• Develop threat models, security requirements, and architectural guidance to protect Dolby's products, technologies, and intellectual property.
• Evaluate security and IP protection technologies, making pragmatic tradeoffs across security, performance, cost, complexity, usability, and business needs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and product teams throughout the product lifecycle, including the validation and robustness of security architectures.
• Drive technical alignment and influence architectural decisions across engineering, product, security, business, legal, and partner organizations.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of cybersecurity, IP protection, platform capabilities, and evolving attacker techniques, and use these insights to shape Dolby's long-term security architecture and strategy.

REQUIREMENTS:  

• 10+ years of relevant experience in security architecture, product security, cybersecurity, IP protection, embedded systems security, or related fields.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience defining security architectures, threat models, and security requirements for complex hardware/software systems.
• Strong knowledge of software and IP protection, including anti-tamper, anti-reverse-engineering, code protection, watermarking, or related techniques.
• Strong understanding of cryptography and platform security, including key management, secure boot, provisioning, trusted execution environments, hardware roots of trust, and related technologies.
• Experience with embedded or consumer platforms, including an understanding of SoC architecture and hardware/software security boundaries.
• Experience with security analysis and validation methodologies, including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, or robustness evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound architectural tradeoffs and influence technical direction across teams and organizational boundaries.

PREFERRED:

• Experience deploying IP or Cybersecurity architectures in consumer, embedded, cloud-connected, or similarly complex products.
• Experience working with silicon vendors, platform providers, OEMs, or other ecosystem partners.
• Experience defining long-term technical strategy or security roadmaps.

Dolby Hiring Entity:

77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Block C
Grand Canal Docklands
Dublin D02 VK60
Ireland