Associate Content Engineer

Role Overview

• Enable facilities to produce Dolby Vision content and train users on Dolby tools.
• Provide Tier 1 support to post-production facilities and OTT partners.
• Conduct workshops, training sessions, create documentation, and promote HDR knowledge industry-wide, including at trade shows and events.
• Focused on India and MENA within Dolby’s Commercial Partnerships (CP) group, this role reports to the Content Engineer, India, and supports content creation partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or similar (Film & Television, Arts, Physics, Engineering Technology, Mathematics, Computer Science, etc.) or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in video post-production, color grading, mastering, editing, VFX.
• Hands on experience with Resolve, Baselight, Clipster, Transkoder preferred.
• Familiarity on video signal cables (HDMI, BNC & etc..), professional reference monitors SDR/HDR (Sony, EIZO & etc..) and Video I/O cards (Blackmagic design, AJA, etc..).
• Knowledge of color science, and workflows like Dolby Vision/HDR, Digital & Cinema.
• Familiarity on the content deliverable formats to the OTT platforms like JioHotstar, NETFLIX, Prime Video, Sony Liv, ZEE5, etc.
• Familiarity on standards like SMPTE, DCI, ITU-R, and other broadcast and digital media.
• The role requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, to be a proven team player with strong work and business ethics and seek to be part of a high-performance team that is growing and desires to do the best work possible.
• The role requires the ability to document and write structured reports.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams, both functionally and geographically.
• It is vital that applicant can quickly and thoroughly learn a variety of technical topics in a short time.
• Self-motivated, self-assured person with aptitude to interface with personnel across the customer engineering organizations.
• Experience in training people on new software and/or hardware.
• Including developing a training curriculum and conducting classes or webinars.
• The ability to explain complicated technical concepts in clear concise everyday language as well as get deeply technical and communicate with engineers and product managers.
• Good relations and contacts within the production and post-production community will be an added advantage.