Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. The Dolby U internship program 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, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work. For any student seeking to gain invaluable expertise through meaningful, personal contributions, we invite you to join us in continuing to design a future where technology meets entertainment!

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is the research division of the company. ATG’s mission is to look ahead, deliver insights, and innovate technological solutions that will fuel Dolby’s continued growth. Our researchers have a broad range of expertise related to computer science and electrical engineering, such as AI/ML, algorithms, digital signal processing, audio engineering, image processing, computer vision, data science & analytics, distributed systems, cloud, edge & mobile computing, computer networking, and IoT.

What is the Research Internship Program?

Discover an engaging summer opportunity within our Advanced Technology Group, offering a variety of intern research positions tailored for postgraduate students. Immerse yourself in captivating projects situated in what we call "greenfield research areas." These are the unexplored areas of inquiry, where novelty thrives and conventionality takes a back seat.

As a Research Intern at Dolby, your ideas contribute to the foundation of upcoming Dolby technology. Leverage the resources and expertise of Dolby's researchers to bring your projects to fruition. Embrace the challenge of undertaking open-ended and investigative projects, which might veer away from the anticipated outcomes of a typical internship.

At Dolby, our greenfield research is guided by innovation zones—critical technology areas and applications that we deem pivotal in shaping our future landscape. Some examples of innovation zones for summer 2024 are:

• Create: UGC – Creating content to share, capturing life
• Play: Entertainment space, enjoying/engaging content/experiences
• Thrive: Wellness – bettering yourself – body/mind/spirit
• Connect: Socializing in new ways – connections in a disconnected world
• Learn: Attaining knowledge in a more efficient manner

What are we looking for in candidates?

Along with your solid technical skills, candidates should demonstrate problem-solving and analytical abilities, good communication and collaboration skills, a curiosity for how and why things work as they do, and a passion for audio, video, movies, music, or game technology. You have a desire to bring in new ideas and are open to learning from others and working in a team.

Summary of Position:

For this internship position we are looking for postgraduate students to use game and realtime engines, such as Unity and Unreal

• to rapidly prototype novel user experiences involving sound, sight, haptics, and even other senses.
• as a platform for designing and implementing a range of experiments/experiences stimulating multiple senses and a range of methods for gathering feedback including the use of sensors such as eye-tracking, GSR, EEG

We aim to explore new vectors of interactivity, immersion, engagement, attention and multimodal perception for entertainment, education, training, and wellbeing.

We are looking for strong candidates with an interest in one or more of the following areas:

• Game design –entertainment, educational/transformative, health
• Game engine libraries implementing physics effects such as realistic rendering of audio and/or video signals.
• Human sensing for entertainment, education and wellbeing applications (human computer interfaces, affective computing, physiological data measurement and analysis, etc.)
• Multimodal perception (audio, video, haptics, etc)

Requirements:

• Higher degree student working towards a master’s/Ph.D. degree in imaging, audio, haptics or other modality, game development, human computer interfaces, human perception, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, or related field.
• Proven ability to use game engines, such as Unity or Unreal, as a platform for implementing experiments, prototyping new experiences, or developing novel training, wellbeing and entertainment experiences.
• Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time, or at a lab.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C , MATLAB, etc.).

Highly Desired Experience in one of the following:

• Familiarity with physics-based scene rendering pipelines and libraries for video and audio.
• Creating demos and prototypes for research applications.
• Writing technical reports and/or publications.
• First-author publications at peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

Eligibility: 

Currently enrolled in a graduate program in imaging, audio, haptics or other modality, game development, human computer interfaces, human perception, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, or related field. Must be available to work full-time Monday – Friday for 12 weeks between May/June 2024 – August/September 2024. 

The start dates for this internship are as follows (please note these dates are not flexible): 

• May 20, 2024 or 

• June 17, 2024 

The San Francisco/Bay Area base hourly range for this internship position is $44-57/hr and can vary if outside of this location. Our hourly 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, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific hourly 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.