Salary
£52k
Senior Technical Audio Designer
Technical Audio Designers create and maintain the technical systems that enable sound to function within interactive environments, combining sound design with technical implementation to ensure audio behaves correctly and efficiently during gameplay. Their work typically includes designing and implementing sound effects and interactive audio elements, developing and maintaining audio tools, scripts, and pipelines, integrating audio assets into game engines, troubleshooting and debugging audio systems and tools, and supporting performance and memory requirements across platforms. This role commonly collaborates with sound designers and audio programmers while also working closely with programmers, game designers, artists, and other developers to ensure audio systems align with gameplay requirements and technical constraints.
- Experienced knowledge of audio integration in modern games.
- Adept with implementation techniques within audio middleware (WWISE, FMOD, etc…)
- Proficient with implementation using visual scripting systems (e.g. blueprint)
- Strong abilities with game audio concepts, workflows, and technical sound design best practices
- Thoroughly understands the foundations of dynamic, frequency, and time-based effects as well as audio synthesis
Software & Tools
Wwise
FMOD
Visual Scripting Systems
Technical Areas
Technical audio implementation
advanced scripting
audio feature prototyping
system design and iteration
tool specification and documentation
Interpersonal Skills
Communication
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Problem-solving
Technical articulation