Audio Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work with the audio team to implement new features and improve existing audio systems.
• Work closely with the audio design team to improve our audio tools and workflows.
• Work with other engineers to interface audio systems to other game systems.
• Design, document, implement systems and test plans to achieve the team’s vision.
• Maintain and expand our audio technology to enable our designers to create world class game audio.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an Audio/Sound Software Engineer.

• Fluent in C++, strong C# skills.
• BS/BEng in Math, CS or equivalent.
• Experience with audio middleware (preferably Wwise) and/or other low-level audio APIs (e.g. XAudio2).
• Experience working with large complex codebases.
• Experience creating interactive audio software.
• Experience creating tools and working with asset pipelines.
• Technical knowledge of the principles of sound and audio manipulation.

• Lua, Python.
• 3D Math.
• Knowledge and/or experience of audio DSP technology or audio synthesis.

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