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Audio Artist - Generalist

Electronic Arts

Vancouver, BC 05-20-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
Audio Artist II – General Electronic Arts

EA Create Audio is an award-winning audio team creating audio assets for titles within EA STUDIOS. Through uniting our creative talents and technical expertise, our Audio team is driving industry-leading audio through partnership, professionalism, expertise, innovation, and uncompromising quality. Role Overview

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to provide outstanding visuals, audio, and technology. Our teams consist of artists, engineers, technicians, designers, and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound, and experiences. We are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

Create Audio is looking for an enthusiastic Audio Artist who will embrace our inclusive culture and share their hard-earned expertise to contribute to an incredible experience for our players. You will report to the Development Manager and work with the Create Audio leads and all other aspects of game development to push the quality bar for game audio. If this sounds like you, we look forward to seeing your resume and demo reel.

Responsibilities
• Design, gather, edit, and implement audio working within guidelines and targets provided by the audio leads and FIFA development team
• Follow a schedule and submit final audio files on or before required deadlines
• Implement audio assets directly in our audio tools and game engine
• Manage audio assets using spreadsheet and database tools
• Directly support feature(s) or small project(s) or task(s)
• Troubleshoot and help fix audio bugs

Requirements
• Minimum three years of game audio and/or post-production experience
• Experience with audio design from scratch, processing and editing
• Comfortable with modern audio equipment, and proficiency in at least one DAW (ProTools)
• Proficient in using game development tools, technology and pipelines (for example Wwise, FMOD, Perforce)
• Solid knowledge of PC hardware and software
• Artistic and creative sensibilities

Bonus Skills
• Knowledge of soccer leagues, teams and rules
• Field recording experience
• Experience with version control software (e.g., Perforce)
• Experience with Bug/task tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Devtrack)
• Experience with relational databases (MS Access)
• Basic scripting or programming knowledge (Python)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5wp17-3-138-174-174-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. EA develops and delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.