Senior Game Audio Programmer
Sony PlayStation’s Bend Studio (Bend, OR)
Sony PlayStation's Bend Studio, renowned creator of Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Syphon Filter, is seeking a hardworking Audio Programmer to join our forward-thinking team in the development of our next high-profile AAA console game title.
If you love game audio, and the implementation of audio in games, have an ear for excellence; if you’re motivated, and collaborate well with sound designers, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Crafting and implementing systems and tools for the audio team’s needs (such as sound propagation, environmental audio, dialogue systems, physics systems etc) and supporting audio designers in their use
- Supporting and extending audio workflows and pipelines
- Writing clear, well-documented, portable, and highly functional code
- Profiling and performance-tuning code to remove bottlenecks
- Testing, debugging, and assuring the functional quality of all the audio within the game
- Participating in the design process, gathering requirements with other specialists and designers
- Creating measurable success while being self-directed and prioritizing your own workload
Required:
- Minimum 5 years professional programming experience and/or at least one shipped AAA title
- Excellent C++ coding skills with experience in code optimization and multi-processor programming
- Comfortable writing and maintaining audio systems at all levels, from the base audio engine to game code, music and dialog management and tool support
- Solid code architecture skills and system design experience
- Dedication to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures
- Sophisticated skills in Vector Math (vector operations, bounding volumes, transform operations) and Physics
- Experience implementing interactive 3D audio in dynamic game-world environments
- Experience with middleware audio solutions, such as Wwise, FMOD, Miles (or similar proprietary tools) and their APIs
- Knowledge of game engines and understand the constraints of game consoles
- Ability to work independently and also within a multidisciplinary team where you can communicate ideas with the sound team and other engineers
- Passion for games, enthusiasm and initiative
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Nice-to-Have:
- Fundamental skills in sound design: crafting, editing, mixing of sounds for games
- Experience designing conversation/dialogue systems
- Experience designing physics systems for audio
- Experience working on environmental audio, sound propagation and 3D audio
- Technical skills and understanding of audio rendering and compression technologies, and codecs
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