Senior Technical Sound Designer, Games Studio

2 days ago

Los Gatos, California, United States Netflix Full time
Job Title: Senior Technical Sound Designer, Games Studio

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films, and games across a wide variety of genres and languages.

As a Senior Technical Sound Designer, you will be part of the Netflix Games Studio team, responsible for creating high-quality, emotionally resonant, and signature audio experiences for our original games.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with the audio lead and game team to conceptualize, prototype, build, and maintain effective audio systems that support the experiential and narrative pillars of our game.
  • Problem-solve and devise creative solutions to complex challenges that can arise within interactive audio.
  • Edit and implement a wide range of high-quality sound assets.
  • Collaborate with external outsourcers while maintaining excellent standards of communication.
  • Perform audio playtests, performance profiling, bug-fixing, and optimization.
  • Contribute as a key stakeholder in designing and managing sound prioritization systems.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience as a Technical Sound Designer, preferably on high-quality multi-platform games.
  • Expertise with Unreal Engine (including Blueprint), Wwise, and other industry-standard audio technologies.
  • Strong abilities with game audio concepts, workflows, and technical sound design best practices.
  • Experience creating and optimizing UE Blueprints.
  • Proficiency in visual programming and scripting languages.
  • Solid understanding of spatial audio concepts in gaming and related technologies.
  • Experience with HDR (high dynamic range) mixing techniques.
  • A keen focus on product quality and supporting player clarity, feedback, and experience.
  • Proven capability in sound design and content creation.
  • An inclusive, communicative, and collaborative mindset; we are a distributed development team.
  • Adaptive growth mindset and a passion for solving complex problems with other people.
  • Advanced profiling experience in middleware to identify and troubleshoot audio issues.
Bonus Qualifications:
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining interactive music systems.
  • Experience assessing and implementing in-game acoustics solutions.
  • Experience working with outsource or contractors.
  • Experience creating scripts for Reaper using Python or Lua.
  • Experience coding in C++ or C#.
  • Knowledge of 3rd party tools and add-ons used in AAA games.
  • Engine-native approaches such as UE Metasounds.
  • Strong portfolio/reel that demonstrates relevant experience in technical sound design in games.
Compensation and Benefits:

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.

The range for this role is $90,000-$600,000. Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits.

We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

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