JavaScript Job: Technical Sound Designer

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Company

Meta
United States of America

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

JavaScript Job Details

Meta Sound Design is looking for a technically-oriented Sound Designer to join our award-winning team. Help build the next generation of Social VR in Meta’s Horizon. The role reports into the Sound Design team, but involves working closely with the Engineering, Art, and Product Design teams to specify sound functionality, realize advanced implementations, optimize performance, refine tooling, and solve difficult bugs. It’s a critical-thinking and problem-solving role with a long runway for creativity and innovation.

Technical Sound Designer Responsibilities:

  • Design innovative solutions to unique opportunities in immersive audio
  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams to achieve compelling experiences
  • Partner closely with Engineering on audio functionality, performance, optimization, and diagnosing bugs
  • Learn, support, and refine a complex cross-functional development environment and pipeline
  • Support other Sound Designers with advanced implementation and functionality
  • Understand and collaborate on the long-view compromises between quality and performance
  • Participate in quality reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • Advocate for audio and champion quality throughout the product

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experience thriving in a fast-paced and quickly evolving environment
  • 4+ years of professional sound design and implementation experience focused on high-quality games or other interactive experiences
  • Experience with version control systems on large teams (Perforce, Git, etc.)
  • Proven cross-functional communication skills
  • Experience implementing advanced scripting layers (visual scripting, C#, JavaScript, etc.)Experience modifying and debugging game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc.)
  • Experience implementing, modifying, and debugging audio middleware (Wwise, FMOD, etc.)

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].