Research Internship

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. 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. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.

Dolby’s Advanced Technology Group in Sydney creates cutting edge audio and video technologies that drive next generation experiences. Our interests are broad: interactive media using Machine Learning/AI, Data Science of media, cloud implementations of media processing and delivery, and explorations of audio video content creation for immersive media such as XR. In this internship you will spend four months with Dolby Australia researchers to investigate a cutting-edge topic. We will work with you in the first two weeks of the project to refine the research topic and develop a plan that leverages your competencies to produce novel research that is fun and exciting. We will encourage publication of the output of your project in an appropriate conference or journal.

We interested in PhD students who have the following technical background:

• AI/Machine learning systems preferably with application to audio, video, text, and multimedia
• AI Agentic Workflows applied to media creation or control
• Trustworthy and explainable AI
• Perceptual and interactive multimedia computing
• Multimodal and Immersive Audio and Video creation

Projects in Dolby will be targeted towards the following broad areas:

• Live events or sports
• Enhancing wellness and fitness
• Data provenance, attribution and authenticity
• Creating and controlling audio, video, textual, or multimedia content
• Generation or playout of spatial media (video or audio)
• Generation of plausible scenes, acoustics and geometry for audio and XR
• Enhancement of education and learning

These points are examples. We are actively looking for new ideas and if your Research project does not fall precisely in the above categories, please still consider applying. For example, if you are doing a PhD in Quantum Computing algorithms with AI or a project that involves user interfaces with robots or Internet of Things applications – come tell us about it because we are flexible!

What the internship is about:

• We will work with you and your PhD supervisor to define a project that relates to your PhD.
• We highly encourage publication of the results of your project.
• Work closely with Dolby research teams to better understand industry-based research.
• Where appropriate, hone your skills in AI/Machine learning or the appropriate creative tools.

Skills and specialty areas:
We are interested in PhD Research candidates from Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Science, Music Technology, Media Technology, or Media Content Creation. We are not prescriptive of skill sets, but it is useful if the Research intern has ability in using appropriate tools, eg, a project in machine learning may require programming Python or Matlab or a project in XR creation may use MaxMSP or Final Cut/Logic Pro, or a project in Quantum Computing would need to be familiar with relevant tools. Most importantly, we are looking for the ability to creatively explore and design experiments to uncover new and interesting learnings in media.

How to apply:
Send your CV on our website:
Within your CV, include a one paragraph summary of your PhD Research topic and be sure to reference any publications!

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