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Treyarch is looking for a dedicated and passionate Senior Technical Sound Designer to join us, where you'll be working with our Call of Duty franchise audio teams across our game modes, from Campaign to Zombies to Multiplayer. In this role, you will use your technical and creative audio skills to be the bridge between the audio artistic direction of the game and its implementation within technical and production constraints. Your mission will also be to inspire and work with a team of high-caliber Audio Designers and Engineers in developing and implementing immersive and compelling sound effects that will be enjoyed by millions of players across the globe.
Job Responsibility:
Create and implement audio assets and sound effects
Help define technical audio needs (tools, process, etc.) for our projects to ensure proper integration, in collaboration with the Audio Director and programmers
Design and create original audio content within the project's creative direction
Conduct performance optimization and debugging
Scripting creative solutions for unique audio implementations
Create and maintain audio-related documentation
Collaborate with other teams to ensure audio requirements and plans are understood, and to reach audio aesthetic goals
Requirements:
8+ years of games industry audio experience, having worked on one or more shipped AAA caliber titles
Technical curiosity, creativity
Direct experience with game audio acoustics systems/pipelines
Experience implementing audio using proprietary tools or commercial middleware
Required familiarity of scripting/coding languages, preferably Python or Lua
Strong knowledge of audio post process plugins
Audio software proficiency using tools such as REAPER, Pro Tools, Waves, and other plug-ins
Solid knowledge of studio audio equipment
Rock-solid communication, organization and problem-solving skills
Receptive to evaluation of one’s own work and skilled at communicating critical feedback to others, as well as a good work ethic and positive personality
Nice to have:
Bachelor's degree in music or audio, or professional training in audio, CS degree a plus
Experience as a musician or vocalist
C/C++ coding experience
Experience playing recent Call of Duty titles or other shooters
What we offer:
20 vacation days and 16 holidays
10 weeks of family leave
Free lunches and snacks at our office
Comprehensive healthcare
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others