Senior Software Engineer, Audio

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Audio (Remote)

For the past 25 years Monolith Productions has been obsessed with delivering a unique gaming experience for our fans. Starting with Blood, our very first title – all the way to our most recent offering, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we are constantly pushing the envelope to combine innovative gameplay, inventive narratives, cutting edge tech & AI, and stunning visuals. We are challenging ourselves even further to ensure that our next project is going to be our best yet. That's where you come in – for us to achieve that, we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer. Help us create our next AAA title.

Your New Role...

Join the Wonder Woman team and help bring an iconic DC Superhero to life!

We are currently seeking an engineer with a passion for sound and music to join our Audio team and help our content creators bring their sound effects and music to life!

As a Senior Audio Engineer, you will be collaborating closely with our audio designers to incorporate their content throughout our gameplay systems and Monolith's proprietary game engine. You will also help maintain, update, and integrate external audio libraries as the newest versions come online.

Come help us deliver a superhero experience as epic as Wonder Woman herself!

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Write C++ code to build and maintain the audio features of our engine
• Work closely with the audio team to design and implement new features
• Work closely gameplay engineers to add audio into our gameplay systems
• Help maintain our external audio library integration within our engine and systems

Qualifications & Experience...
• 5+ years of professional experience in C++
• Passion for game audio and a desire to help create immersive worlds
• Experience working and debugging in a well-known IDE, such as Visual Studio or Rider
• Generalist comfortable working on the full audio stack from content pipelines to gameplay hooks
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Experience with Audiokinetic, Wwise, or other audio middleware a plus
• Knowledge of audio signal processing (desirable)
• Experience helping maintain a live software product or game a plus
• Experience developing against console platforms (Xbox, PS, etc.) a plus
• Experience working in agile processes, such as Scrum (desirable)

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $95,550.00 - $177,450.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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