Senior Audio Designer
Certain Affinity
7 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sound Design
Senior Audio Designer
Overview
Certain Affinity is seeking a talented Audio Designer with 4+ years of experience to join our team and help deliver world-class audio experiences for some of the industry’s biggest AAA franchises. As an Audio Designer, you will craft and implement immersive sound design that enhances gameplay, storytelling, and player feedback.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, animators, and partner studios to create and integrate high-quality audio systems within Unreal Engine. The ideal candidate is both creative and technically proficient, comfortable implementing their work in-engine, and excited to contribute to a fast-paced co-development environment where teamwork and craftsmanship are essential.Responsibilities
Overview
Certain Affinity is seeking a talented Audio Designer with 4+ years of experience to join our team and help deliver world-class audio experiences for some of the industry’s biggest AAA franchises. As an Audio Designer, you will craft and implement immersive sound design that enhances gameplay, storytelling, and player feedback.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, animators, and partner studios to create and integrate high-quality audio systems within Unreal Engine. The ideal candidate is both creative and technically proficient, comfortable implementing their work in-engine, and excited to contribute to a fast-paced co-development environment where teamwork and craftsmanship are essential.Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-quality gameplay sound effects, ambience, and interactive audio for AAA titles.
- Implement and manage audio assets within Unreal Engine and Wwise, including Blueprint-driven audio triggers and gameplay event integration.
- Collaborate closely with game designers, engineers, and animators to ensure audio enhances gameplay clarity, player feedback, and immersion.
- Create audio for a variety of gameplay systems including combat, environmental interactions, UI, and cinematic moments.
- Work with internal teams and partner studios to maintain a consistent audio style and quality bar across shared development efforts.
- Iterate on audio implementation based on playtest feedback and design changes.
- Optimize audio assets and systems for performance, memory budgets, and platform requirements.
- Maintain organized asset libraries and documentation to support efficient collaboration across distributed teams.
- 4+ years of professional experience in audio or sound design within the video game industry.
- Experience implementing and tuning audio directly in Unreal Engine.
- Proficiency with industry-standard DAWs and audio editing tools (Pro Tools, Reaper, Logic, or similar).
- Strong creative sound design skills including recording, editing, layering, and processing audio.
- Experience integrating audio into gameplay systems and interactive environments.
- Solid understanding of game development pipelines and working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a team-oriented development environment.
- Experience working on AAA console or PC titles.
- Familiarity with audio middleware such as Wwise or FMOD.
- Experience supporting combat gameplay audio and moment-to-moment player feedback systems.
- Knowledge of audio optimization techniques for real-time games.
- Experience working in a co-development or partner studio environment.