Senior Technical Sound Designer - Treyarch (Los Angeles)

Activision Blizzard • Plainfield, IL

16d

About The Position

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.

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 Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees