Senior Technical Sound Designer: AA/AAA Audio Systems

Mob Entertainment; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) matching

FSA/HSA

Paid time off

Sick time

holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Mob Entertainment is hiring a Principal Technical Sound Designer to architect scalable audio systems for AA/AAA titles. You’ll work with Unreal Engine, Wwise, and MetaSounds to optimize performance, build dialogue systems, and contribute hands-on sound design under tight deadlines.

The role requires shipping multiple titles and strong documentation/communication skills to empower sound designers across projects in a horror-focused studio environment.

Qualifications

• Multiple shipped AA/AAA titles and pro experience mixing shipped game projects.
• Experience supporting multiple AA/AAA projects concurrently.
• Deep expertise with Wwise, UE integration/API, dynamic mixing and spatial audio.
• Extensive experience with Unreal Engine, C++, Blueprints, and MetaSounds.
• Proven architecture, build, optimization, and documentation of core game-audio systems.
• Experience optimizing game audio for CPU/memory performance.
• Experience developing audio systems for networked multiplayer games and latency/sync challenges.
• Proven examples of building and refining dialogue systems from scratch.
• Experience developing Unreal Editor modules, utilities, and workflow tools.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Sound design experience aligned with creative audio goals, especially horror.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build modular, scalable audio systems using C++, Blueprints, Wwise, and Unreal Engine.
• Work across multiple AA/AAA projects, designing scalable cross-project solutions.
• Develop deep integrations using the Wwise UE API.
• Design and maintain dynamic mixing and spatial audio for gameplay, dialogue, environments, and cinematics.
• Develop advanced audio functionality using Unreal MetaSounds.
• Profile and optimize audio for CPU, memory, and platform constraints.
• Architect scalable dialogue systems balancing immersion and clarity.
• Build UE Editor modules, utilities, and tools to improve workflows.
• Create clear technical documentation for sound designers and juniors.
• Contribute hands-on sound design when needed and deliver production-ready results under deadlines.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Wwise

C++

Blueprints

Audio systems

Dynamic mixing

Dialogue systems

Editor tools

Technical docs

Multiplayer audio

Tools

MetaSounds

Job description

Mob Entertainment is hiring a Principal Technical Sound Designer to architect scalable audio systems for AA/AAA titles. You’ll work with Unreal Engine, Wwise, and MetaSounds to optimize performance, build dialogue systems, and contribute hands-on sound design under tight deadlines.

The role requires shipping multiple titles and strong documentation/communication skills to empower sound designers across projects in a horror-focused studio environment.