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Dolby's research division is looking for an AI researcher to join Dolby's research efforts to develop the next generation of AI based audio and video technologies. The candidate will work with Dolby's 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
Dolby's 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 of 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.
Main responsibilities
- Work closely with other domain experts to refine and execute Dolby's 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.
- 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).
- 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.