PTW: Audio Engineer - (Part Time - On Call) - Los Angeles

Audio Engineer is needed in Los Angeles, United States.

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Client: PTW

Location: Los Angeles, United States

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Purpose of Job

SIDE LA is looking for a Part-Time on-call or Freelance Audio Engineer to join our amazing Audio Production team in Los Angeles. As an Audio Engineer, you will be responsible for the smooth running of games dialogue recording sessions for a multitude of games, from indie mobile to AAA console, helping to ensure the timely completion of agreed deliverables and milestones, to a very high standard. As an outsourcer it’s this that brings clients back, and it’s returning clients that keep the awards coming.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Engineer studio sessions at our London studios, from recording wild dialogue to full ADR recording.
• To engineer, setup and run HMC (Head Mounted Camera) sessions, making sure video is captured according to brief.
• Prepare studio sessions’ assets such as audio and video reference files and dialogue scripts.
• Maintain studios and studio equipment as is practicable.
• Develop studio services, processes, and workflow as part of an international team.
• Record location audio at sound stages or external.

Other

• Adhere to company Security, Confidentiality and Health and Safety procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Adhere to the company IT and HR procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Understand ethical behaviour and business practices and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organisation.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• 4+ years’ experience as an engineer in a commercial postproduction recording studio, ideally working for some time with dialogue / ADR recording.
• Experienced user of Pro Tools and other DAWs.
• 100% comfortable with and enthused by audio / video / IT technology in general.
• Excellent client facing and internal communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• Both a self-starter, able to work alone as and where necessary, and a team player, able to muck in at all levels to get the job done.
• Comfortable both taking instruction from senior members of staff and giving instruction to junior members of staff.

Qualifications

Music or Post-Production accredited course or training is desirable.

Additional Information

Multi award-winning games dialogue specialist SIDE is a fast-paced and creative environment working with one of the video game industry’s most successful and well-respected audio production companies. With over 20 years’ experience, an international network of resources, SIDE’s award-winning team of technical and creative experts still hold the same collective intention: To develop the truest interpretation of each client’s vision - for audiences of every genre, on any platform, in all languages. SIDE are also very active in the technology & digital media industries, working with a multitude of innovative clients from around the world that develop devices which are present in consumers everyday lives.

Who we are:

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms. We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry-wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio. Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players. In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world. Welcome to PTW, Family of Brands.