Job description

We are ARVORE, a startup in the virtual reality content creation scene.

ARVORE is looking to hire a technically adept, creative individual to complement our team. You will have the opportunity to work on innovative immersive and narrative-driven XR experiences, iterating and prototyping with a high level of creative freedom and with the opportunity to guide the direction of some of these endeavors.

Our process emphasizes teamwork, agility and multidisciplinarity. We are looking for a passionate and self-motivated person with a positive attitude and a genuine team player, who likes to share knowledge and is open to learn from others. We embrace problem solvers, those who aren’t afraid to experiment and fail and are ready to create something new.

WORKING HOURS: Full Time

The Sound Designer at ARVORE is responsible for creating immersive and engaging sound experiences for our games. This professional works closely with the development team, using their expertise in sound design to enhance the narrative, atmosphere and gameplay of games. Your responsibilities include creating impactful sound effects, and efficiently implementing these elements into the game environment. Furthermore, the Sound Designer actively participates in the prototyping and review phases, ensuring sound quality and cohesion in all aspects of the projects.

MAIN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Design high-quality in-game audio assets and supplementary audio content, as well as planning, creating, and implementing game audio systems.
• Collaborate with directors, producers, and technical/creative teams to understand the vision and requirements for the project’s sound.
• Facilitate collaboration with external audio teams, serving as a liaison between them and your project’s team.
• Use middleware tools to implement and mix dynamic audio systems.
• Enhance the quality and reduce the size of audio files by selecting optimal extensions and compression formats, thereby ensuring each project achieves optimized size without compromising sound quality.
• Comprehensively document all audio-related information within a project in a structured manner, ensuring ease of access for the team to reference when needed.

MUST HAVE:

• Vast experience in creating original sound effects for interactive digital experiences, using tools like synthesis and foley.
• Experience in working with middleware and dynamic audio, using tools like FMOD and MetaSounds.
• Knowledge about compression and audio file formats and how to optimize them.
• Experience in mixing and mastering audio for interactive media.

Job description

About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Create mixed reality software solutions to provide a realistic training environment that combines both a physical and virtual world.
• Work closely with and integrate 3rd party headsets and other VR/AR/MR hardware and expand our training device feature sets and product lines.
• The team is agile, test-driven, and multi-disciplinary. The position incorporates all facets of software development from communication, requirements assessment, research, design, development, testing, integration, peer review, documentation, maintenance, and end user support.
• Design and test aircraft simulator sound software applications, C/C++, 
• Perform 1/3 octave and narrow-band analysis of aircraft recordings for implementation in the software applications.
• Create and maintain software and hardware documentation.
• Create and maintain 1/3 octave tests and perform tuning of the sound simulation to tolerances required by FAA/JAA.
• Provide on-site support of the simulator installation and certification efforts with virtual/augmented/mixed reality projects or technologies

Minimum Experience

• Algorithm development and object-oriented design
• Narrow Band and 3rd Octave Signal Analysis
• Embedded Systems Programming Experience
• Audio Systems Experience
• Real-time audio processing
• Tuning and integration
• Audio DSP
• Lean/Agile software development

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Productivity standards, deadlines, and work schedules. Accepts full responsibility for quality of work, both independent and team projects.
• Adaptability- Quickly modifies behavior to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or work environment. Approaches change as opportunities for learning and development.
• Results Oriented – Focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them by ensuring that they and others stay focused on the objective and perform in accordance with clear expectations.
• Teamwork – Cooperates and collaborates with all teammates to achieve common goals by sharing information or expertise, working together to solve problems in a positive manner while valuing.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and climb or balance.
• Must work with keyboard, mouse, and monitor for long periods of time.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Job description

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

We are Frostbite

Frostbite is EA’s state-of-the-art multi-platform game development engine, powering games such as EA SPORTS FC, Madden, Battlefield, Need for Speed and Skate. Join us in driving the next evolution in games.

What does an Audio Technical Artist do?
As a Technical Artist on the Audio and Movie team, you will report to Frostbite’s Technical Art Manager. You will directly contribute to and push the boundaries of the newest tools and workflows that Frostbite releases to our community of game teams. You’ll help make our development process more creator-centric by gathering feedback from content creators throughout EA and working with engineers on the Frostbite team to improve the usability of content workflows and help steer the design of new features.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide insights using your experience and perspective as an audio content creator to inform the design of new tools and workflows.

• Build compelling audio tech demos to demonstrate the power of the engine and inspire the community to achieve their creative vision.

• Build content for our Testers to ensure stable and high-quality features 

• Write documentation and create training materials to help educate the Frostbite community.

• Work with audio directors and artists on game teams to advise on solutions and best practices to achieve their project’s vision for sound design.

• Support and guide the migration of game content to utilize new features and technologies developed by the Frostbite engineering team.

• Keep up-to-date with industry standards and products related to audio and movie production in game development to help inform workflow and feature development.

Required Experience

• Working knowledge of industry-standard audio tools (e.g. Pro-Tools, Ableton Live)

• Industry experience in game sound design (e.g. mixing, implementation, asset creation, sound design)

• 2+ years experience with sound implementation in games, either using Unreal, Unity, FMOD, Wwise, or equivalent toolset

• Shipped 2+ games

Bonus Experience

• Experience with recording sessions, music, voice, FX

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as LUA or Python

• Shipped a AAA title

• Experience with movie middleware applications or encoding tools (e.g. Premiere)

• Experience with Atlassian Confluence & Jira software or similar tools

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $89,300 – $123,000 CAD

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Job description

Need an audio engineer to monitor audio for live video production, utilizing our equipment. We are looking for someone with a strong understanding and experience with Dante Audio Workflow for live productions.

We have the audio equipment.

Our Equipment

• Shure ULXD4Q Quad-Channel Digital Wireless Receiver
• 8 Shure Lav Mics
• Yamaha TF-Rack Digital Mixing Console
• Dante Workflow

Dates:
January 4 – 12P – 8P
January 5 – 4P – 1A
January 6 – 10A – 8P
January 7 – 4P – 1A
January 8 – 10A – 8A
January 9 – 10A – 4P & 5P – 8P
January 10 – 3P – 12A
January 11 – 10A – 8P
January 12 – 4P – 1A
January 13 – off
January 14 – off
January 15 – 3P – 1A
January 16 – 10A – 8P

Job will include hotel stay and 24/7 employee cafeteria access

Experience / Skills

Advanced experience and Understanding of Dante Mapping and Dante Work Flow
Advanced understanding of complex arrangements
Familiarity with our specific Yamaha Mixer

About Gorilla Gaming

Gorilla Gaming provides production services for live poker events for some of the largest brands in the poker industry.