[Hiring] Principal Technical Sound Designer @Mob Entertainment

Role Description

We’re looking for a Principal Technical Sound Designer with deep production experience building and shipping high-quality technical audio systems for AA/AAA games. This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone equally comfortable with audio systems architecture, Unreal Engine, Wwise, C++, Blueprints, optimization, mixing, tooling, and hands-on audio production.

• Architect and build modular, scalable, and portable audio systems from the ground up using C++, Blueprints, Wwise, and Unreal Engine.
• Work across multiple AA/AAA game projects simultaneously, designing solutions that can scale across projects and teams.
• Develop deep integrations using the Wwise Unreal Engine API.
• Design and maintain sophisticated dynamic mixing and spatial audio systems in Wwise, supporting gameplay, dialogue, environments, cinematics, and changing player context.
• Develop advanced audio functionality using Unreal Engine MetaSounds.
• Profile and optimize audio for CPU, memory, runtime performance, and platform constraints.
• Architect and refine scalable, modular, and portable dialogue systems, balancing in-world immersion with gameplay and dialogue clarity.
• Build Unreal Editor modules, utilities, and tools that improve audio implementation workflows and reduce repetitive work.
• Create clear technical documentation and how-to guides that enable sound designers and junior technical sound designers to independently use and maintain the systems you build.
• Contribute hands-on sound design when needed.
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready results under short deadlines and high-pressure development conditions.

Qualifications

• Multiple shipped AA or AAA titles, with professional experience mixing shipped game projects.
• Experience supporting multiple AA/AAA projects concurrently.
• Deep expertise with Wwise, its Unreal Engine integration/API, dynamic mixing, and Wwise Spatial Audio.
• Extensive professional experience with Unreal Engine, C++, Blueprints, and MetaSounds.
• Proven experience in architecting and building core game-audio systems from scratch.
• Proven expertise optimizing game audio for CPU and memory performance.
• Proven experience developing audio systems for networked multiplayer games, including challenges such as replicated audio state/events, latency and synchronization, and multiplayer voice chat.
• Multiple proven examples of building and refining dialogue systems from the ground up.
• Deep experience developing Unreal Editor modules, utilities, and workflow tools.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Professional sound design experience and a strong understanding of how technical systems support creative audio goals.
• Experience working in horror games or horror-focused interactive audio is strongly valued.
• A demonstrated ability to make strong technical and creative decisions when time, performance, or production constraints are significant.

Requirements

• Strong candidates should be able to demonstrate specific shipped examples of systems they personally architected, built, optimized, documented, and supported in production.

Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• FSA/HSA
• Paid time off
• Sick time
• Holidays
• Parental leave

Salary Range

• San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA; & Seattle, WA DC Metropolitan Areas: $164,000- $215,000 USD annually
• Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Miami, FL; Portland, OR; Raleigh–Durham, NC; Philadelphia, PA; Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT Metropolitan Areas: $143,000 - $187,000 USD annually
• All Other U.S. Locations: $121,000 - $159,000 USD annually