• Senior Sound Designer - Oculus Studios

    Meta (Little Rock, AR)


    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:

    1. Collaborate with the cross functional art and engineering teams to bring industry leading interactive experiences to life through audio

    2. Partner with Creative Leadership to define and bring to life the high level sonic identity of Oculus Studios games/apps/projects

    3. Use your craft mastery to mentor cross-functional and audio team members

    4. Design, record, and implement SFX, VO, and audio content of all kinds

    5. Collaborate with XR Audio and Research to develop platform tools

    6. Manage project external talent such as music composition and VO auditioning

    7. Set clear audio vision and goals in pre-production through ship

    Minimum Qualifications:

    Minimum Qualifications:

    8. 5+ years of creative audio project ownership

    9. 5+ years experience working as an interactive audio designer/developer

    10. Proven ownership and delivery of large scope features / projects

    11. Proven craft mastery achieving high impact audio outcomes on multiple AAA titles

    12. Proficiency in recording, designing and implementing high quality innovative audio experiences across multiple platforms, genres, and styles

    13. Demonstrated mastery of driving interactive audio via script and other runtime tools

    14. Experience working in all phases of game development from ideation to pre-production, to ship and post-ship states

    15. Proven self-management, organizational and problem solving skills

    16. Knowledge of audio and its role in VR, AR, and other emerging technologies

    Preferred Qualifications:

    Preferred Qualifications:

    17. VR, AR and/or Mixed Reality development experience

    18. Programming Experience

    19. Experience in Unreal Engine 5, Unity a plus

    20. 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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