Audio Artist – EA SPORTS FC

The FC Audio team is looking for an experienced Audio Artist who can immediately contribute to audio development. The role involves overseeing audio-specific projects to create and maintain a quality audio experience. The Audio Artist is expected to contribute across all audio design and production phases, with proficiency in at least one audio discipline or area.

• Create quality audio for video games, with a high focus on authentic dialogue for story-driven game experiences.
• Author small, well-defined audio-related tasks with a high focus on content pipelines.
• Directly support features, small projects, or tasks within the Speech discipline, taking ownership of specific game domains.
• Complete technical implementation, logic, data-basing, and software design tasks to support custom source elements.
• Participate in project problem-solving and troubleshooting with the wider audio and engineering teams.
• Perform buddy checks, pipeline diffing, system audits, and pre-CQC quality control reviews on all applicable platforms to support successful submissions, shelf tests, and stable builds.
• Manage editor package imports, sample handling, database updates, source control, file depot submissions, and build pipelines.
• Work autonomously to drive features to completion, collaborate in prototyping, drive innovation and workflow improvements, and contribute to and provide feedback on the overall audio vision.
• Provide direction and support to junior speech team members, acting as a mentor and helping onboard new staff.
• Take direction from Audio Leads, Directors, and other senior stakeholders, while actively expressing creativity and technical design insight.

• Minimum 5+ years' game audio experience, with a solid background in AAA game development.
• 7-10 years' studio engineering, recording, and VO production experience (or equivalent).
• Proven experience in game audio technical implementation, particularly with logic-driven commentary and dialogue systems.
• High level of proficiency in at least one major audio middleware software (Wwise, Fmod) and familiarity with proprietary game engines.
• Proficient with modern audio creation equipment, software, and recording techniques, with advanced proficiency in at least one industry-standard DAW (ProTools, Reaper, etc.).
• Expert-level experience in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) and Google Sheets, with a proven ability to methodically manage, track, and audit large amounts of metadata and database assets.
• Solid experience using proprietary game development tools, editors, technology, and build pipelines.
• Solid knowledge of PC and console audio hardware.
• Outstanding sound design, dialogue editing, and listening skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams (Design, Software Engineering, and Production).
• Strong knowledge of professional sports (specifically Football/Soccer), including leagues, team structures, and commentary styles.
• Experience with VO and technical implementation of game audio.
• Advanced proficiency in the speech context system and logic methodology.
• Experience contributing across all audio design and production phases, with proficiency in at least one audio discipline or area.

• Experience with Quality Assurance Verification, CQC, and in-game debugging.
• Experience with remote VO recording sessions and directing voice talent.
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, SQL, VBA macros, JavaScript, Lua, etc.) to optimise and automate pipeline processes.
• Experience leading small feature groups or organizing internal tasks for tracking.
• Experience using Drone for targeted scenario captures, testing, or verification.
• Ability to troubleshoot CPU and memory audio budgets, manage source control with Perforce and Git, maintain clean asset pipelines, and support methodical asset tracking and databasing.
• Experience providing guidance to junior and mid-level audio designers on team workflows and feature deliverables.

• Vacation (3 weeks per year to start).
• 10 days per year of sick time.
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions worldwide to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games. Building on an incredible 30-year foundation, EA SPORTS is redefining football with EA SPORTS FC, a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences that brings a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game.