Senior Staff Electrical Engineer - Audio Hardware (Hybrid)

Dolby Laboratories; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work options

Job summary

Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco seeks an experienced Staff Electrical Engineer to join the Consumer Entertainment engineering team. You will develop hardware and embedded software to enable new Dolby audio experiences across consumer electronics and collaborate with acoustic, mechanical, and software engineers to create groundbreaking technologies.

You will design analog/digital electronics, evaluate components, and work with partners to integrate solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering required.
• 10+ years of proven industry experience.
• Experience designing mixed-signal systems for consumer electronics.
• Experience with audio components: class D amplifiers, ADCs/DACs/CODECs, DSPs.
• Experience with I2S/TDM, PDM, SPDIF, Dante and control buses (I2C, SPI, UART).
• Power system design: switching and linear.
• PCB design with Xpedition and PLM Agile.
• Strong hands-on testing and debugging skills.
• Excellent English communication.
• Willing to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Work with external customers, Dolby partners, and other Dolby teams to bring new audio experiences to new devices.
• Develop hardware platforms to enable and advance Dolby technologies.
• Design analog and digital electronics hardware with an emphasis on audio band applications.
• Simulate and analyze new circuit topologies for use within audio electronics and power devices.
• Understand system architecture requirements and tradeoffs; design appropriate solutions.
• Evaluate components for integration into new designs.
• Develop prototype designs to showcase Dolby technologies.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop holistic solutions.
• Work with software engineers to enable DSP algorithms on hardware designs.
• Coordinate with contract manufacturers to build prototypes for demos.
• Support customers with architecture, component selection, and schematic reviews.
• Perform competitive product analysis and benchmarking.

Skills

Mixed-signal design

PCB design

Soldering

Schematic capture

DSP integration

English communication

Troubleshooting

System architecture

Power electronics

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Xpedition

Agile

Job description

Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco seeks an experienced Staff Electrical Engineer to join the Consumer Entertainment engineering team. You will develop hardware and embedded software to enable new Dolby audio experiences across consumer electronics and collaborate with acoustic, mechanical, and software engineers to create groundbreaking technologies.

You will design analog/digital electronics, evaluate components, and work with partners to integrate solutions.