Senior Technical Sound Designer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Sound Designer (Gamedev): Provides technical solutions for integrating and implementing audio systems in the Beyond Good & Evil 2 game, ensuring audio assets work as intended. Focus on developing solutions within Wwise and the proprietary engine, optimizing audio performance, and ensuring the quality and consistency of audio systems.

Location: Montpellier, France - Office-based

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences.

What you will do

• Provide technical solutions for integrating and implementing audio systems using Wwise and the proprietary engine.
• Propose audio systems to improve integration efficiency across departments.
• Create and integrate audio assets, including sound, music, and voice.
• Assume the role of audio technical lead, ensuring consistency, performance, and quality of audio systems.
• Write, maintain, and distribute audio technical documentation.
• Contribute to CPU and memory load management and resource optimization on consoles.

Requirements

• Knowledge of audio physics and digital audio principles.
• Proficiency in DAW (REAPER, ProTools) and advanced knowledge of WWISE middleware.
• Knowledge of recording techniques, mixing, mastering, and audio resource management.
• Familiarity with visual scripting and at least one scripting language (Python, C#).
• Understanding of audio technical direction, performance constraints, and multiplatform environments.
• Good level of French is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a passionate audio team of about 10 people.
• Opportunity to be the go-to person for all technical audio aspects of the BGE2 project.
• Collaborate with project audio programmers.
• Structured onboarding process with project and tool presentations.
• Emphasis on diplomacy, collaboration, adaptability, autonomy, proactivity, thoroughness, and curiosity.

Hiring process

• Application review.
• Quick prequalification (30 min max, by phone).
• Interview 1 – Discovery (1h, video).
• Interview 2 – Technical (1h, video).
• Technical test.