Technical Sound Designer

We are seeking a talented and highly-motivated Technical Sound Designer to help bring a brand-new AAA multiplayer game to life. This is a unique opportunity to help deliver a high-quality, culturally-impactful audio experience for one of our first games in an emerging gameplay-diverse genre.
We are an ambitious team that is passionate about creating a memorable and meaningful immersive experience. We deeply value the positive team culture that we're building together. We're seeking like-minded colleagues with an inclination towards excellence, self-motivation, and teamwork.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the audio director and design team to conceptualize, prototype, build, and maintain effective audio systems that support the experiential and narrative pillars of our game.
• Problem-solve and devise creative solutions to complex challenges that can arise within interactive audio.
• Edit and implement a wide range of high-quality sound assets.
• Collaborate with other teams, maintaining excellent standards of communication.
• Perform audio playtests, performance profiling, bug-fixing, and optimization.
• Contribute as a key stakeholder in designing and managing sound prioritization systems.

Our ideal candidate possesses:

• 3+ years experience as a Technical Sound Designer, preferably with high-quality online multiplayer games.
• Expertise with Unreal Engine (including Blueprint), Wwise, and other industry-standard audio technologies.
• Strong abilities with game audio concepts, workflows, and technical sound design best practices.
• Experience creating and optimizing UE Blueprints.
• Proficiency in visual programming and scripting languages.
• Experience creating scripts for Reaper using Python, Lua, or EEL.
• Experience coding in C++ or C#.
• Solid understanding of spatial audio concepts in gaming and related technologies.
• Experience with HDR (high dynamic range) mixing techniques.
• A keen focus on product quality and supporting player clarity, feedback, and experience.
• Proven capability in sound design and content creation.
• An inclusive, communicative, and collaborative mindset; we are a distributed development team.
• Adaptive growth mindset and a passion for solving complex problems with other people.
• Advanced profiling experience in middleware to identify and troubleshoot audio issues.

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining interactive music systems.
• Experience assessing and implementing in-game acoustics solutions.
• Experience working with outsource or contractors.
• Knowledge of 3rd party audio tools and add-ons used in AAA games.
• Engine-native approaches such as UE Metasounds.
• Strong portfolio/reel that demonstrates relevant experience in technical sound design in games.