Senior Sound Designer - Oculus Studios

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Summary

Oculus Studios is searching for a Sound Designer to join our Central Audio team! As a Sound Designer on the Oculus Studios Central Audio Team, you will use your creative and technical skills to explore, define, and bring-to-life a new class of audio experiences on the forefront of new and emerging platforms, with a heavy emphasis on virtual reality.

Required Skills

Senior Sound Designer - Oculus Studios Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the cross functional art and engineering teams to bring industry leading interactive experiences to life through audio
• Partner with Creative Leadership to define and bring to life the high level sonic identity of Oculus Studios games/apps/projects
• Use your craft mastery to mentor cross-functional and audio team members
• Design, record, and implement SFX, VO, and audio content of all kinds
• Collaborate with XR Audio and Research to develop platform tools
• Manage project external talent such as music composition and VO auditioning
• Set clear audio vision and goals in pre-production through ship
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years of creative audio project ownership
• 5 years experience working as an interactive audio designer/developer
• Proven ownership and delivery of large scope features / projects
• Proven craft mastery achieving high impact audio outcomes on multiple AAA titles
• Proficiency in recording, designing and implementing high quality innovative audio experiences across multiple platforms, genres, and styles
• Demonstrated mastery of driving interactive audio via script and other runtime tools
• Experience working in all phases of game development from ideation to pre-production, to ship and post-ship states
• Proven self-management, organizational and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of audio and its role in VR, AR, and other emerging technologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• VR, AR and/or Mixed Reality development experience
• Programming Experience
• Experience in Unreal Engine 5, Unity a plus
• Experience in Wwise or FMOD a plus
  
  

Public Compensation

$113,000/year to $162,000/year bonus equity benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity

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