Insomniac Games is looking for an audio intern who is passionate about producing audio for games. We are looking for someone who is interested in pursuing a career in game audio and who wants to learn all aspects of what it takes to create, edit, implement and fine tune audio during the development process.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities Include The Following

This intern’s responsibilities will include sound effect design and creation, assistance with dialogue editing and processing, stub dialogue recording and preparation, sound effect material mapping, attachment of sound effects to animations using our proprietary tools, and sound effect scripting in Wwise and internal tools. The intern will also have the opportunity to be mentored by senior members of our Audio team.

Internship Qualifications

• Candidates must be enrolled at a college or university or have recently graduated after April 15th, 2020 to be considered.
• Working towards or obtained a degree with an emphasis on audio production, recording or engineering, preferably within the game development field
• Candidates should be energetic, self-motivated, creative, responsible, have a passion for video games, and an understanding of what makes them fun (or not), and be willing to work hard.
• Understanding of signal flow, audio production, editing and mastering is required.
• Familiarity with audio production and editing software such as Pro Tools or Sound Forge is required.
• Additional experience with field recording and microphone setups, dialogue editing, sound effect creation and editing, and post-processing preferred.
• Understanding and experience with Wwise or other middleware solutions is strongly preferred.

Internship Details

• Students must be available to intern 5 days per week for approximately 40 hours a week.
• The duration of internship is flexible but we ask for a minimum of 8 weeks.
• This is a paid internship.
• This internship is based in our Burbank, California studio