Interleave Creative Hiring for Audio Software Engineer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Job Summary:
The tech audio team at Interleave works alongside our audio designers and composers to create and maintain the tools and systems required to deliver audio and music support for our clients’ various AAA, mobile and VR/AR games. You will be responsible for working with our audio designers to implement and maintain practical and performant runtime audio playback systems.

This position is remote, requires a well maintained media-capable computer and a high speed internet connection.

This project will require work hours primarily between the PST and EST time zones. Candidates outside of North America who are flexible with their working hours are also welcome to apply but this is not negotiable.

Interleave provides a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.

On a daily basis, you may be expected to:
Work with audio designers to engineer systems to facilitate premium game audio presentation

Work with engineering teams from other disciplines

Alter and enhance third-party tools to better suit the needs of audio designers, such as authoring custom plugins for Wwise

Implement and maintain tools for debugging and performance telemetry for the systems you build

Help our games achieve audio brilliance!

Qualifications:
Minimum of 1 shipped AAA title or equivalent Indie experience

Strong C/C++ development and optimization skills

Strong debugging and documentation skills

Strong 3D math foundation

Experience programming in multithreaded environments

Ability to work efficiently and independently

The ideal candidate will have:
Passion for working closely with world-class sound designers, supporting their developing day-to-day needs for audio technology and associated tools

A highly self-motivated team player with the ability to dive in, understand large codebases, and learn quickly

Experience developing for multiple platforms, and modern consoles

Experience using Wwise (preferred) or FMOD

Experienced development in Unreal Engine, Unity

A degree or postgraduate qualification, or relevant experience, in Computer Science or a related subject

Nice to have:
An ear for what makes a game’s audio sound great

Experience in DSP programming

Experience programming in C#

Have built or worked with game engine audio systems

Please include links to any relevant previous work with your application. Selected candidates will be chosen for an interview with a technical component.

Interleave is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, provincial, or local laws. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.