Dolby Laboratories Inc.
Senior Staff Electrical Engineer
San Francisco, California,United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- 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.
- To do that, we need the absolute best talent.
Responsibilities
- Develop hardware platforms to enable and advance Dolby technologies.
- Design analog and digital electronics hardware with an emphasis on audio band applications.
- Understand system architecture requirements and tradeoffs and design appropriate solutions.
- Evaluate potential components (ICs) and modules for integration into new designs.
- Develop prototype designs that showcase new Dolby technologies.
- Work with cross functional teams including acoustic and mechanical engineers to develop holistic solutions.
- Collaborate with software engineers to enable DSP algorithms on hardware designs.
- Work with contract manufacturers to build prototypes for evaluation and customer demos.
- Perform competitive product analysis and benchmarking.
- Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of proven industry experience.
- Experience with digital audio (I2S/TDM, PDM, SPDIF, Dante) and control (I2C, SPI, UART) buses.
- Experience designing switch-mode and linear power systems.
- Experience with system architecture, component selection, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
- Ability to achieve results, meet deadlines, and adjust to quickly changing priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication in English, including the ability to produce clear and concise technical software documentation.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time (domestic and international).
- Minimum requirements Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Master is preferred.
Nice to have
- Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Master is preferred.
Compensation
- $153k-$210k
Benefits
- 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.
- The Dolby name is synonymous worldwide with amazing entertainment experiences, from Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in cinemas and living rooms to Dolby Atmos Music on the latest smart speakers and smartphones.
This listing is sourced directly from Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.