Technical Audio Designer – AAA Online Games – The Netherlands – Permanent

OPM’s client, a world class AAA game developer, is currently looking for a Technical Audio Designer to join their Netherlands based Team.

You’ll act as the bridge between high-level design goals and specific solutions, participating – in collaboration with other specialists – in both the direct implementation of audio features and assets, and the translation of more complex requirements into technical specifications.

As an audio generalist with a technical grounding, this role demands the willingness to take on a broad variety of challenges, an ability to quickly switch focus between tasks, and the capacity to maintain good lines of communication, discussing complex issues at differing levels of abstraction.

Responsibilities:

• Implement Features
  • Cooperate with other disciplines to elicit, implement, refine, and maintain audio features
  • Adhere (and contribute) to robust standards and pipelines
  • Verify in-game quality and consistency and iterate according to feedback
• Maintain Communication
  • Decompose complex ideas into succinct, communicable technical specifications
  • Cooperate with QA to produce robust test cases and push for high standards of quality
• Prototype Concepts
  • Take part in the generation of design idea
  • Drive the development of rapid prototypes
  • Research, play and evaluate games to maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the domain

Requirements:

• Extensive sound design experience
• Shipped (at least) one title in a Sound Design (or equivalent) role
• Strong knowledge of implementing / integrating sound features / assets in modern game engines
• Good understanding of loudness standards / mix processes
• Experience working in Unity
• Strong understanding of industry standard audio (synthesis, manipulation) tools
• Ability to decompose design goals into succinct implementation requirements
• Ability to operate autonomously in a dynamic environment
• Willingness to learn new technical skills and techniques

Beneficial:

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent formal qualification) in a relevant field
• Experience developing large-scale / open-world / sandbox games
• Strong grasp of text-based scripting (C# or equivalent language)
• Familiarity with audio features in a multiplayer context
• Hands-on experience with field and studio recordings and associated equipment
• Background in audio engineering (recording, mixing, mastering)
• Practical experience using a variety of modern game engines and tools
• Working knowledge of software development and collaboration tools (eg Atlassian)
• Familiarity with asset / version management (eg Perforce)
• Keen understanding of User Generated Content

Tagged as: Audio Design, Sound Design