Senior Sound Designer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Sound Design • $89,640 PA - $186,840 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Lightspeed LA seeks a passionate and experienced Senior Sound Designer to join their in-house audio team. Responsibilities include designing, editing, mixing, mastering, and implementing immersive next-gen audio content and systems. This role involves creating sound effects, utilizing various recording techniques, implementing interactive real-time sound using middleware, and collaborating with other teams. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of AAA game audio experience, proficiency in a DAW (preferably Nuendo or Reaper), expertise in interactive audio, and experience with Wwise middleware. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential.
Must have:
  • 5+ years AAA game audio experience
  • Proficiency in DAW (Nuendo/Reaper)
  • Wwise middleware expertise
  • Interactive audio design & implementation
  • Sound effect creation & recording
  • Collaboration & communication skills
Good to have:
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • Environmental audio & 3D audio experience
  • Interactive music implementation
  • Dialogue/VO editing & implementation
Perks:
  • Free daily lunch
  • Beverages, snacks, fruit
  • 401k match
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Team building & outings
  • Parental leave
  • Company paid health insurance
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness training
  • Travel insurance
  • Preventive care

Job Details

About the Hiring Team

Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA?

For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

● We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
● We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
● We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.

What the Role Entails

About this position at Lightspeed LA
 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate, creative and technical Senior Sound Designer to join our in-house audio team and help create world-class audio on a new and exciting open-world AAA game.We are seeking someone who will bring passion to the role, collaborating with sound and other disciplinary teams, creating sonically rich, high-quality AAA audio. Your primary focus will be on sound design, sound systems and implementation. Below is an outline of responsibilities and some of the qualities we look for in the ideal teammate.

Responsibilities

  • Design, edit, mix, master and implement immersive, next-gen audio content and systems to engage players and enrich game narrative with the goal to raise the bar in game audio.
  • Create and edit new sound effects and record real-world sounds using various recording techniques, professional audio editing tools, plug-ins, hardware and props both in the field and in the studio.
  • Implement and author interactive, real-time sound using middleware, scripting tools and/or in-engine to bring soundscapes to life.
  • Collaborate with audio engineers, other sound designers and departments to design and document audio systems, own and deliver on audio features.
  • Sound design and mix cinematic audio content to blend seamlessly with gameplay audio.

Who We Look For

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understand emotion and tension in storytelling, and be able to design immersive, narrative-driven audio.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in AAA game audio with a minimum of one AAA title shipped as Senior Sound Designer or equivalent.
  • Proficiency in at least one DAW (preferably Nuendo or Reaper, with ProTools as a secondary option)
  • Imaginative and creative use of audio production tools, foley performance and capture, props, and recording techniques to create high quality original content.
  • Expertise in interactive audio, sound design, recording and post production techniques.
  • Understanding of, and experience in creating and authoring real-time, parameter-controlled sounds such as vehicle engines, weather systems, ambiences.
  • Proven experience with the Wwise middleware tool (or proficiency in similar middleware).
  • A grasp of logic and simple scripting methods for interactive audio implementation within a game engine.
  • Experience working with other departments and understanding their workflow.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • Experience working on environmental audio, sound propagation and 3D audio
  • Familiarity and experience with the Unreal Engine.
  • Experience with music editing and implementation of interactive music.
  • Experience with dialogue/VO editing, mastering, implementation and localization.


If the above sounds like you, or if you’d like to know more about the role, we’d love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Why Join Us?

Perks and Benefits:

Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.

● Free daily lunch
● Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
● 401k with employer match
● Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
● Financial wellness sessions
● Flexible spending account
● Team building and company outings
● Parental leave for new parents
● Company paid health insurance
● Life and disability insurance
● Employee assistance program
● Wellness training
● Travel insurance
● Preventive care

If the above sounds like you, or if you'd like to know more about the role, we'd love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $89,640.0 to $186,840.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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