Job description
Have you ever dreamed of making huge creature sounds, powerful magic spells, and clashing battles with hundreds of players? What about bringing a dynamic open world to life with music and detailed ambiences?

Amazon Games Orange County is looking for a Sound Designer to build on the realistic and supernatural soundscape of New World and help forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, broadcasters and creators.

In this role, you will work with the Audio Lead to create top quality sound design and implementation. You’ll work highly autonomously, collaborating with designers, animators, visual effect artists, and programmers to create compelling audio experiences; leveraging your technical and creative audio skills on a unique and enthusiastic team.

Responsibilities: Design and implement high quality in-game sound effects. Test all aspects of the game audio, ensuring in-game playback is flawless. Collaborate with the production team to set clear, realistic timelines. Provide well thought-out feedback that pushes the sound of New World forward.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 1+ shipped title.
· 1+ years’ experience in a sound designer role.
· 1+ years experience recording both in the field and in the studio.
· 1+ years experience implementing audio with middleware.
· A passion for games and the role that audio plays in storytelling and player experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience with any commercial video game engine (Lumberyard, Unreal, Unity etc.)
· Experience with Wwise.
· Scripting experience in LUA, C# or any visual scripting system.
· Massive Multiplayer Online experience a plus.
· Music editing and composition experience a plus.
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Job description
Come join us!  We founded Splash Damage with a mission to create lifelong friendships for our players and our employees by building the world’s most engaging multiplayer experiences with world-leading partners. Our teams have just celebrated the launch of Gears Tactics and we’re currently working on several exciting unannounced titles.

Our people always come first, and we acted swiftly to ensure that we moved all our employees to a work from home model during the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK, and this will continue for the foreseeable future. With our first-class virtual onboarding programme, we’re able to get you up and running from your home during this time and we’re maintaining our relaxed and welcoming culture with digital social events, daily company communications and much more. We will continue to monitor the situation in line with government advice, but we will expect you to come and work with us in our friendly studio in Bromley as and when it’s safe to do so.

We’re advocates for work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to suit individual needs and a comprehensive benefits package which focuses on family and mental well-being. Together with this we’ve been running a formal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme for nearly two years and are committed to increasing diversity across our studio.

The Role
As a Technical Audio Designer at Splash Damage you will be responsible for the implementation of Sound Effects, Music and Dialogue in our games. This will include simple sound effect playback and advanced systemic audio design utilizing various middleware solutions. You will work on cutting-edge audio technology, expanding audio systems and integrating sound into gameplay to deliver exciting game experiences.

You will be a part of a collaboration-oriented team where you will have the opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways 

• Design, implement, and debug audio systems for game development primarily using Unreal Engine 4 and Wwise.
• Bridge the gap between audio designers and programmers to be the go between of the two disciplines.
• Collaborate with designers and programmers to develop systems/tools to allow audio designers to further realize their artistic aural vision. 
• Work with the development team to design cutting edge game audio tools for speech/sfx/music in innovative ways
• Adopt and improve the existing audio development process. 
• Manage audio data budget, Wwise session organization, SoundBank structure and loading, and run-time audio optimizations 
• Responsible for documenting audio systems and educating the content creators in audio best practices.
• Defining and managing loudness standards.

Join our awesome audio team and help us make some amazing sounding games.

Required Skills

• You must have been an Audio Designer within the games industry for 3+ years with at least 2+ complete cycle of a shipped AAA title
• Have extensive proficiency with audio middleware (Wwise, Fmod)
• Have experience with game engines including Unreal
• Proficiency with scripting using Unreal Blueprints
• Basic proficiency in C++
• Extensive knowledge of implementing audio in modern game engines
• Advanced knowledge of sound design, synthesis, & audio manipulation
• Knowledge of and experience with building and maintaining modern audio systems in AAA titles
• Work efficiently and autonomously with a high attention to detail
• Understanding of mix engineering process and loudness standards within the industry

Desired Skills

• Up to date on industry standards and developments in sound production and mixing techniques in other fields such as film and music
• Extensive experience in Sound Design and a strong grasp of Audio Principles
• A degree in music or sound design
• Good problem-solving skills
• Basic understanding of DSP and audio programming
• Experience with console development (PS4, Xbox One, etc.)
• Scripting I other languages such as Json, Lua, Python etc

Studio Culture  Splash Damage offers a fun, friendly and relaxed working environment. Everyone here shares a passion for video games and that shows in daily office life. We get together regularly for a wide range of social events, enjoying pub quizzes, cinema trips and gaming nights, competing in our plethora of sports and game groups, and letting our hair down at our legendary company parties, karaoke, and our weekly Friday get-togethers for in-house drinks, games and more. 

Find out more on our Studio page.