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Principal Sound Designer Job at Tencent in Irvine

Tencent, Irvine, CA, United States, 92713

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Overview

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About Lightspeed LA: Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA? We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

What The Role Entails

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate, creative and technical Principal Sound Designer to join our in-house audio team and help create world-class audio on a new and exciting open-world AAA game. Your primary focus will be on sound design, sound systems and implementation. You will collaborate with sound and other disciplinary teams, creating sonically rich, high-quality AAA audio.

Responsibilities

  • Design, edit, mix, master and implement immersive, next-gen audio content and systems to engage players and enrich game narrative with the goal to raise the bar in game audio.
  • Create and edit new sound effects and record real-world sounds using various recording techniques, professional audio editing tools, plug-ins, hardware and props both in the field and in the studio.
  • Implement and author interactive, real-time sound using middleware, scripting tools, and/or in-engine to bring soundscapes to life.
  • Collaborate with audio engineers, other sound designers and departments to design and document audio systems, own and deliver on audio features.
  • Sound design and mix cinematic audio content to blend seamlessly with gameplay audio.

Who We Look For

  • Understand emotion and tension in storytelling, and be able to design immersive, narrative-driven audio.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in AAA game audio with a minimum of one AAA title shipped as Sound Designer or equivalent.
  • Proficiency in at least one DAW (preferably Nuendo or Reaper, with ProTools as a secondary option).
  • Imaginative and creative use of audio production tools, foley performance and capture, props, and recording techniques to create high quality original content.
  • Expertise in interactive audio, sound design, recording and post production techniques.
  • Understanding of, and experience in creating and authoring real-time, parameter-controlled sounds such as vehicle engines, weather systems, ambiences.
  • Proven experience with the Wwise middleware tool (or proficiency in similar middleware).
  • A grasp of logic and simple scripting methods for interactive audio implementation within a game engine.
  • Experience working with other departments and understanding their workflow.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • Experience working on environmental audio, sound propagation and 3D audio
  • Familiarity and experience with the Unreal Engine.
  • Experience with music editing and implementation of interactive music.
  • Experience with dialogue/VO editing, mastering, implementation and localization.

Why Join Us

Location: US-California-Irvine, US-Washington-Bellevue

The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $128,700.00 to $299,500.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Hired applicants may be eligible for a sign-on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, and participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan. Depending on location and tenure, employees may receive up to 15–25 vacation days, up to 13 holidays, and up to 10 paid sick days per year. Benefits may be pro-rated for new hires during the calendar year.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent: As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Seniority level

  • Director

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
  • Industries: Software Development

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