Staff QA Engineer - Cinema Imaging United States Posted 18 hours ago

## Staff QA Engineer - Cinema Imaging San Francisco, California,United States Apply Now Find out how well you match with this jobJob ID41609

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, not to mention every other Friday off.

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices.

As a Staff QA Engineer in the Dolby Cinema QA group, you will provide senior test leadership for next-generation cinema imaging products and integrated theatrical systems. This is a highly hands-on role requiring regular on-site work in Dolby’s San Francisco hardware labs.

You will own test strategy, planning, lab readiness, system configuration, execution, risk assessment, and release-quality reporting across complex imaging programs involving projectors, cinema servers, networking, and related infrastructure.

You will also serve as a key technical interface with external hardware partners and help advance practical AI-assisted QA tools that improve test efficiency and coverage.
** Responsibilities
* ** Lead QA strategy and end-to-end test ownership for high-priority cinema imaging products, from early development through release readiness.
* Design, set up, configure, document, and maintain cinema hardware labs and test environments involving projectors, cinema servers/integrated media blocks, network systems, measurement equipment, and supporting infrastructure.
* Perform hands-on functional, integration, system, interoperability, performance, reliability, upgrade, and regression testing on complex cinema systems.
* Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, test matrices, and release criteria based on product requirements, architecture, technical risk, customer use cases, and field configurations.
* Own picture-quality and video-path validation, including calibration, image evaluation, video playback, color processing, signal integrity, metadata handling, multi-projector configurations, and 3D imaging workflows.
* Configure and troubleshoot complete cinema systems, isolate failures across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and content boundaries, and work closely with engineering teams to drive issues to resolution.
* Provide technical leadership for multiple concurrent programs and communicate test status, coverage, defects, quality risks, dependencies, and schedule impacts to engineering and business stakeholders.
* Serve as the primary QA interface with external projector and hardware partners, including alignment on test standards, issue escalation, defect reproduction, release readiness, and cross-company coordination.
* Produce high-quality defect reports and lead defect triage, root-cause investigation, reproduction, prioritization, and verification of fixes.
* Mentor QA engineers and provide technical direction on imaging test design, lab practices, troubleshooting, and quality decision-making.
* Identify opportunities to improve test efficiency and coverage through appropriate scripting, automation, data analysis, AI-assisted workflows, and custom QA tools, while maintaining strong hands-on system validation.
* Collaborate across QA, imaging engineering, systems engineering, product management, program management, operations, and field teams in a fast-paced product development environment.
** Requirements
* ** Minimum 7+ years of experience in quality assurance, systems testing, hardware validation, or a related…