Senior Technical Sound Designer - Sledgehammer Games

Activision Blizzard • Foster City, WA

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About The Position

Sledgehammer Games, award winning developer of several titles in the Call of Duty franchise, is looking for talented developers to join us as founding members of our new Guilford team. This group will partner with our global teams in Foster City, California, Melbourne, Victoria and Toronto, Canada in the creation of epic content for some of the biggest games in the world. This is an opportunity to an AAA team, adding new skills to your armory while gaining the unique satisfaction that only comes from building something brand new. Join us on our quest to maintain and improve a healthy and inspiring studio culture! The studio is navigating their 2nd decade of game development, focused on constant evolution, innovation and qualified risk-taking – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With world-class content production and engineering teams, we’ve been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we’re looking for talented game developers for our exciting new projects. Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. Sledgehammer Games is looking for a passionate and experienced game Senior Technical Sound Designer to help create a fresh new AAA aural experience for our next project. You will be involved in all technical, implementation and sound design aspects of game audio content development alongside one of the most passionate and experienced audio teams in the industry.

Requirements

• Demonstrated technical achievements in sound design.
• Minimum eight years of experience in game audio development.
• Shipped at least three major titles.
• Experience in programming languages such as Lua or Python.
• Fluency in game audio implementation systems.
• Understanding of PS5, XBOX Series X, and PC audio functionality, capabilities, and limitations.
• Experience with major digital audio workstations.
• Solid understanding of technical audio theory and audio engineering.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Exceptional organization skills.
• Continuing Education Certificate, Professional or advanced degree in programming, audio engineering, or similar preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in C++ or C#
• FPS/Multi-player experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• In-depth real-time audio-control scripting.
• Audio asset implementation.
• Collaborate with audio programmers and other sound designers to develop audio systems based on creative vision and gameplay needs.
• Apply studio and departmental best practices for technical audio workflows and systems.
• Interactive and linear sound effects design.
• Inspire teamwork and collaboration inside and outside the Audio Dept.

Benefits

• 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 holidays and vacation, 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
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees