Sound Designer – AAA Games – Sweden – Permanent

As a member of our client’s audio team, you will enjoy working with many and varied parts of implementation and design, through their editors and scripting languages, as well as middleware solutions and standard audio editors. Audio pipeline is design driven, so you will enjoy great freedom in your designs as you implement these designs all the way into the game.
As a Sound Designer you will be part of a tight and highly motivated team that strives to create the best sound experiences possible in games. In addition to the various members of the audio department you will get to work side by side with game developers of all disciplines (e.g., UI, vehicles, weapons, etc.) in order to help them realise the sound of their designs.
Qualified candidates must have a passion for audio, a feel for music and a solid grasp of theoretical concepts such as sonic perspective, layered textures and abstract vs. concrete sound design as well as more tangible concepts such as gain structure, and basic digital audio principals.

Responsibilities:

• Designing sounds
• Implementation of sounds into the game
• Scripting
• Dialog editing
• Music editing

Requirements:

• Extensive experience working as a sound designer in the games industry (film industry experience appreciated) with at least one shipped AAA title
• Great understanding of sound implementation and design, and the stages involved in taking your design all the way into the game
• Ability to take direction for sound design
• Good grasp of FMOD (Designer or Studio)
• Fluent in common audio tools and software (Reaper, Cubase, ProTools, Soundforge, etc)
• Strong organisational skills
• Ability to edit and navigate within XML and Python scripts
• Highly motivated and good at communicating and working within cross-discipline teams

Desired:

• Field recording experience
• Understanding of new loudness standards
• Solid grasp of microphone basics

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