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Netflix Senior Technical Sound Designer Games Studio Blue United States, Oregon 482531930
23.06.2024
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Core Responsibilities:
- Work closely with audio lead and game 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 external outsourcers while 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:
- 5+ years experience as a Technical Sound Designer, preferably on high-quality multi-platform 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
- 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
- Experience creating scripts for Reaper using Python or Lua
- Experience coding in C++ or C#
- Knowledge of 3rd party 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
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