Principal Technical Sound Designer

Mob Entertainment

8h•$121,000 - $215,000•Remote

About The Position

Mob Entertainment is hiring a Principal Technical Sound Designer, a senior individual-contributor role focused on building and shipping high-quality technical audio systems for AA/AAA games. The position combines audio systems architecture, Unreal Engine, Wwise, C++, Blueprints, optimization, mixing, tooling, and hands-on sound production. The role supports multiple game projects concurrently and calls for production-ready work under short deadlines and high-pressure development conditions. The successful candidate will architect scalable, modular, and portable audio systems; develop Wwise and Unreal Engine integrations and tools; and design dynamic mixing, spatial audio, MetaSounds, and dialogue systems. They will also optimize audio performance, document systems, support sound designers and junior technical sound designers, and contribute hands-on sound design as needed. Experience with horror games or horror-focused interactive audio is strongly valued. Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity workplace and complies with applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws. Benefits listed are for eligible U.S.-based full-time employees.

Requirements

Multiple shipped AA or AAA titles.
Professional experience mixing shipped game projects.
Experience supporting multiple AA/AAA projects concurrently.
Deep expertise with Wwise, its Unreal Engine integration/API, dynamic mixing, and Wwise Spatial Audio.
Extensive professional experience with Unreal Engine, C++, Blueprints, and MetaSounds.
Proven experience architecting and building core game-audio systems from scratch.
Proven expertise optimizing game audio for CPU and memory performance.
Proven experience developing audio systems for networked multiplayer games, including replicated audio state/events, latency and synchronization, and multiplayer voice chat.
Multiple proven examples of building and refining dialogue systems from the ground up.
Deep experience developing Unreal Editor modules, utilities, and workflow tools.
Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer skills.
Professional sound design experience and a strong understanding of how technical systems support creative audio goals.
Demonstrated ability to make strong technical and creative decisions when time, performance, or production constraints are significant.
Ability to demonstrate specific shipped examples of systems personally architected, built, optimized, documented, and supported in production.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in horror games or horror-focused interactive audio is strongly valued.
Familiarity with and enthusiasm for the horror genre, and an understanding of how audio systems support tension, atmosphere, player uncertainty, pacing, and dynamic scares.

Responsibilities

Architect and build modular, scalable, and portable audio systems using C++, Blueprints, Wwise, and Unreal Engine.
Develop solutions that scale across multiple AA/AAA game projects and teams, supporting multiple projects concurrently.
Develop deep integrations using the Wwise Unreal Engine API.
Design and maintain dynamic mixing and spatial audio systems in Wwise for gameplay, dialogue, environments, cinematics, and changing player context.
Develop advanced audio functionality using Unreal Engine MetaSounds.
Profile and optimize audio for CPU, memory, runtime performance, and platform constraints.
Architect and refine modular, scalable, and portable dialogue systems that balance in-world immersion with gameplay and dialogue clarity.
Build Unreal Editor modules, utilities, and tools that improve audio implementation workflows and reduce repetitive work.
Create technical documentation and how-to guides that help sound designers and junior technical sound designers use and maintain audio systems.
Contribute hands-on sound design when needed.
Deliver production-ready results under short deadlines and high-pressure development conditions.
Personally architect, build, optimize, document, and support systems in production.