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Staff Engineer, Video Encoding/Processing: Dolby Laboratories

You will bring your extensive and proven video encoding and video base-band experience to the Dolby Dolby’s video technology codec team. Your work is characterized by bridging your well founded theoretical background in video encoding and video base-band processing and picture improvement and enhancement into and Dolby’s video technology into the world of real-live professional and consumer products.

As a prerequisite for your work, you have proven expert knowledge of the H.264 standard, video base-band processing technologies, and the implementation of these in consumer and PC products. Your in-depth understanding of trade-offs between computational effort and perceptual gain of different implementations will guide you in implementation decisions.

You are intimately familiar with architecture specific optimizations such as e.g. x86 intrinsics (SSE2/3/4), GPGPU / OpenGL, or CUDA. You will contribute your experience in this field to the development, resulting in a best-in-class implementation of Dolby’s video processing technologies.
You are current with video scaling, de-interlacing, and frame rate conversion technologies. Spatial and temporal video enhancements round-up your technology background. In-depth understanding of the end-to-end video chain, as well as a solid background in perceptual video quality analysis, as well as familiarity with video interface standards such as HDMI and SDI would be a plus.


You have a minimum of 8 years of C/C++ development experience coupled with strong object oriented design skills under a Linux and Windows development environments. Implementation experience with COM, DirectShow, ActiveX is required. You have multi-threaded design and development experience, and basic knowledge of networking and media streaming. You are creative, have strong problem solving ability, good verbal and written communications skills, experience with consumer software applications.
You will interface with Dolby Research to review the strategies and methods used in the current development of 3D technology including encoding, pre- and post post-processing stages, and to provide further optimizations for the targeted embodiments.

Job Functions

• Contributing to productizing efforts to implement Dolby’s video technology
  
  
• Adaptation, optimization, and implementation of video pre-, and post-processing algorithms on DSPs, and x86 SIMD and multi-core architectures
  
  
• Interfacing with PC application developers to incorporate the Dolby’s video processing algorithms in PC applications
  
  
• Ability to work in fast paced development environment coordinating efforts with Marketing and Sale groups in addition to Engineering groups that may be in different geographical locations
  
  
• Meticulous in design detail, reliability, and performance of video on various platforms
  
  
• Maintain the highest technical and moral integrity for Dolby in the workplace and marketplace
  
  
• VDR related optimization of video encoder performance with respect to quality and bandwidth.
  
  
• Ability to work in fast paced development environment coordinating with Marketing/Sales groups in addition to Engineering teams.
  
  
• Provide excellent example to the Dolby engineering workforce

Skills, Education, and Experience Required

• BSEE or BSCS with emphasis on video encoding and base-band processing
  
  
• Expert knowledge in color correction science, gamut mapping and color domain conversion
  
  
• In-depth understanding of post processing algorithms including implementation aspects
  
  
• Solid knowledge of the H.264 standards and the implementation of these in consumer products
  
  
• Experience in the use of Matlab for algorithm modeling and the use of various video evaluation tools for evaluation of the modeling
  
  
• Experience in converting Matlab based models to C coded models
  
  
• At least 8 years experience in video processing related software and systems development on ARM and MIPS based cores or DSPs used in multiple SOC ICs typically found in consumer products
  
  
• Alternatively, at least 8 years experience in video processing related software and systems development on x86 or GPU based applications
  
  
• Expert in Windows and Linux development environments, and best practice in large-scale development projects
  
  
• Good background knowledge in networked audio/video development.
  
  
• Experience in converting Matlab based models to C coded model.
  
  
• Experience in hardware-software co-design project.
  
  
• At least 8 years experience in development of consumer products that proceeded to production for consumption by consumers in retail market chains such as Best Buy, Circuit City and similar retailers

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