Senior Audio Designer: Narrative Systems & Immersive Audio

Hoyoverse; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid healthcare premiums

Generous paid time off

401K / RRSP plan

Employer-paid life and disability

Team-building activities

Job summary

HoYoverse in Los Angeles is seeking a senior game audio designer to craft systemic, non-linear audio experiences. You will collaborate with gameplay, narrative, and art teams to shape how players hear and feel the world, guiding in-house talent and building complex audio systems.

You should have 5+ years in game audio, a portfolio demonstrating adaptive audio, and deep knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, Wwise or FMOD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of game audio design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating systemic or non-linear audio design.
• Mastery of dynamic audio implementation in a modern game engine (Unreal Engine 5 strongly preferred).
• Expertise with Wwise or FMOD, especially for large-scale projects with multiple systems and complex routing.
• A strong personal relationship with games. You play widely, think critically about how games work, and understand how audio shapes the player's experience from the inside.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of inspiring others with a creative vision and clearly explaining technical needs to engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• Co-create the audio vision for narrative cohesion. Craft and implement dynamic, audio systems in Wwise and UE5 to make branching gameplay feel like an authored experienced.
• Collaborate with designers across disciplines, including gameplay, systems, quest, and narrative to identify where story emerges through play. Propose audio solutions that surface and strengthen those moments.
• Help the team identify risks and keep the audio vision moving forward even when the broader design is still taking shape.
• Partner with technical personnel, including tools engineers and audio programmers. Translate the needs of systemic narrative design into clear technical requirements for our audio tools and pipelines.
• Establish and document best practices for systemic audio design, creating shared language and process across the team.
• Play the game relentlessly, and identify stylistic inconsistencies, dead zones, and poor transitions. Advocate for the audio experience across disciplines.

Skills

Game audio design

Portfolio reel

Unreal Engine 5

Wwise

FMOD

Communication skills

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Wwise

FMOD

Job description

HoYoverse in Los Angeles is seeking a senior game audio designer to craft systemic, non-linear audio experiences. You will collaborate with gameplay, narrative, and art teams to shape how players hear and feel the world, guiding in-house talent and building complex audio systems.

You should have 5+ years in game audio, a portfolio demonstrating adaptive audio, and deep knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, Wwise or FMOD.