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 postholder 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 experiences, and 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, and data-basing tasks for speech context systems.
• Participate in project problem-solving and troubleshooting with the wider audio and engineering teams.
• Perform buddy checks, pipeline diffing, system audits, editor package imports, sample handling, and database updates to support successful submissions, shelf tests, and stable builds.
• Perform Quality Control review for the project's audio (pre-CQC) on all applicable platforms.
• Create software design to support custom source elements.
• Manage source control, submit to file depots, and handle build pipelines.
• Work autonomously to drive features to completion, contribute to and provide feedback on the overall audio vision, and collaborate in prototyping, innovation, and workflow improvements.
• Provide direction and support to junior speech team members, acting as a mentor and helping onboard new staff, while taking direction from Audio Leads, Directors, and other senior stakeholders and 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.
• Advanced proficiency in the speech context system and logic methodology.
• Experience with VO and technical implementation of game audio.

• 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 paid sick time.
• Company 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/vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash 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 a 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.