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Graduate Audio Designer

Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 750 talented people, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Zoo . We are continuing to grow our team to support our existing portfolio and an exciting and ambitious future roadmap, which includes the development of both own-IP titles and licensed-IP titles. Our IP-license partners include Universal (Jurassic World), Formula 1 and Games Workshop (Warhammer).We are also growing our team to continue the expansion of Frontier Foundry, our publishing label for games developed by carefully selected partner studios.

We have a modern spacious studio located on the Cambridge Science Park in the heart of the Cambridge tech hub. For those who wish to relocate to the Cambridge area and work either entirely in the studio or flexibly between the studio and home, we can provide generous financial and practical support to facilitate your move. We are also able to offer remote working for those who would prefer to work almost exclusively from home or who are unable to relocate. We can discuss your preferences with you during the recruitment process.

As a Graduate Audio Designer , you are taking your first steps in a rich world of creative collaboration. What you lack in experience you make up for in enthusiasm and creative expression.

You will join the Audio Design Services team (ADS) and work with your peers on established projects, with proven pipelines, direction and tools that help you make the most of your sound design skills.

As you learn and grow you will be exposed to multiple projects at Frontier Developments and given more ownership and to take on creative challenges.

Working in the Frontier Audio Team:

• We are truly passionate about what we do.
• You will become part of a team that cares deeply about audio in games.
• We also care about each other and will only choose candidates who put others before themselves and are kind, open and generous people.
• Frontier works on varying project and genre's, from dinosaurs to roller-coasters, zoo animals, racing cars and space ships!
• The audio team is 40 people and growing - we have specialists that work in linear, dialogue, production, music, programming, project support, testing, engine audio integration and tools to help you with design, implementation and planning.
• Aptitude and passion are quickly rewarded with ownership and empowerment, regardless of job experience.
• Build automation will streamline your time developing and is standard on all projects.
• A rich catalogue with over 14.6TB of files in our audio libraries.
• Working with industry leading FX like Fabfilter, Kilohearts, Soundtoys, Melda, Valhalla, iZotope and more!
• Access to a professionally fitted out VO recording room and a Foley room with Foley pits.
• We strive for realistic deadlines and properly staffed projects with a proven technology base to mitigate against overtime as a project delivery strategy - your passion for game audio should does not belong in a pressure-cooker!
• Plenty of opportunity to grow, we are always looking for people who will want to advance and becomes specialists, lead projects or excel at being generalists It's up to you!

What's great about joining the Audio Services Group at Frontier:

• A clear path to growth and promotion - within the Audio Design Services group you will learn and inspire others in a career trajectory that covers graduate up to senior and ever more responsibility.
• Work closely with peers around your skill level, an experienced lead and support from the audio-production, audio-dev and audio tech-team.
• You will be mentored by talented and experienced designers.
• You will have the chance to eventually become a mentor yourself and moving beyond the ADS team.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are eligible to work in the UK.
• Are willing to move to the Cambridge area for an in-house position.
• Have experience creating sound effects using custom recordings and library material to generate apt and original audio.
• Demonstrate excellent sourcing, editorial and track laying potential.
• Possess ability and familiarity with a DAW (we use Reaper) and the integrated use of plug-ins.
• Implementation (we use Wwise) will form part of your training - a keen interest will go a long way.
• Are eager to learn from peers and take feedback in a constructive way.
• Appreciate detail
• Are storytellers.
• For this role we are ideally looking for someone who can work on a hybrid or on-site basis.

What you can bring to the role:

• Forge excellent working relationships with people from the audio team.
• You have the communication skills to help achieve the project audio team’s vision.
• A kind, friendly, positive and considerate attitude.
• Ambition for audio in games, progressive in approach, leave your ego at the door and are open to learning, idea sharing and brainstorming.
• Inspire others by example and always seek to raise the audio quality bar and the user experience.

What work in this role typically looks like:

• We generally start the week with a catch up - some of us are hybrid and will join remotely while others will be in the office.
• You hear what everyone works on, and will look for opportunities to offer constructive feedback when it is appropriate.
• A lead and project producer will hep to assign tasks and plan work - you can spend most of your time creating and learning!
• You can work with the lead, seniors and members of the Audio Design Services group to define technical resources needed to implement audio.
• You can make use of the recording facilities and Foley room on site or use extensive libraries.
• Use Reaper to create sound effects and reach out to your colleagues for continuous feedback.
• Improve your implementation skills with the help of colleges or technical sound designers.
• Build the latest stable version of the game, which has been tested on our build automation servers.
• Work in the game and use debug, test-worlds and development tools to check implementations.
• Work with people from other disciplines to help define the work.
• Work closely with your peers in the ADS team.
• Join show and tell stand-ups in which you get a chance to give and receive constructive critique.
• Weekly audio design development and learning meetings, in which we discuss and show breakdowns of our work.
• Go out together and enjoy the lovely weather!

There is a barrier to entry in game audio and access to plug-ins and libraries can make a huge difference.

To give everyone the same chance, we ask all applicants to work on a short test, working with the same provided library and plugins, so that we can test your ability to tell a story in sound.

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.