Technical Audio Designer - Studio Elevation

Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for a talented Technical Audio Designer to join us on a 12-month fixed term contract to help us explore, create, and deliver world leading innovation in software and VR hardware. Become one of the founding members of Elevation, pathfinding a remote first studio, crafting a new generation of VR development and bringing core VR games to fruition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement game audio using Audiokinetic's Wwise and Unreal 5
• Manage Wwise project organization, structures, plugins, configuration and data within performance budgets.
• Build and maintain interactive audio playback systems, triggers and controlling logic based on creative vision and gameplay needs.

• Ensure audio systems, data and setup and data are documented, and audio workload is consistently performant for a stable VR framerate.
• Collaborate with other disciplines (art, design, code and QA) to ensure audio is incorporated into all aspects of gameplay and enhances game experience.
• Support and plan the audio vision of the game in collaboration with other creative disciplines and project leadership.
• Be a positive behavioural and mental role model for the team and studio.

Requirements

Essential capabilities:

• High-quality skills in sound design and mixing within games
• Able to work to differing feature sets and requirements between different consoles and formats.
• Skilled with Audiokinetic's Wwise (Wwise 201 Certification or equivalent experience)

• Experience with Wwise and Unreal Integration
• Some Blueprint scripting experience
• Experience implementing audio in Unreal
• Understanding of the technical audio constraints for the game development across different platforms
• Experience using version control software: P4V, SVN, SourceTree etc.

Desired experience:

• 3 years game development experience and/or at least one product published within the Console, PC, VR or Mobile space.
• Previous spatial audio real-time or video work

• Real-time engine experience with Unreal (other engine knowledge a plus).
• Ability to create and/or implement blueprints to a safe and optimized standard.
• Working knowledge of FMod and WWise middleware as well as popular DAWs (Reaper preferred).
• Experience working with non-interactive media such as trailers or other promotional video work.
• Can Demonstrate experience in interactive audio system design and maintenance (games, installations, etc.)

• A working knowledge of C++ is an advantage.

Benefits

Who are we?

nDreams Studio Elevation is bringing the evolution of VR development to core gamers.

This is an all-new studio seeded by the creative talent that brought you the innovative, genre defining award-winning VR title Phantom: Covert Ops.

We are looking for exceptional talent to help pave the way forward with fresh innovation for the next generation of VR hardware and software.

Why nDreams Elevation?

This is the opportunity to build upon an already proven, world class foundation of VR expertise, to further shape and mould a new way of working, that continues to deliver and innovate for the next generation of core VR games.

We are a remote first studio, with all the perks that come with it. Work from anywhere to help us push the boundaries of VR, with cutting edge technology and the support of our established VR expertise from the wider nDreams group.

Rapidly growing to support a variety of genres, nDreams is one of the world’s leading developers/publishers focused on VR games, creating multiple studios dedicated to making the best games out there.