{"id":1534470,"url":"https://alion.io/job/side-audio-engineer","title":"Audio Engineer","company":{"id":4302,"name":"Side","domain":"side.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/side","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":96,"open_postings":60,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.15,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":41,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":42000,"max_usd":100000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":306},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T17:58:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T07:51:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About the role\nSIDE is looking for an experienced Audio Engineer to join our London Audio team.\nYou will be responsible for the smooth technical delivery of games dialogue recording sessions across a wide range of projects, from indie and mobile titles through to AAA console productions.\nThis is a hands-on studio engineering role requiring strong technical capability, excellent session management and the ability to work calmly and professionally with clients, directors and talent.\nYou will work across dialogue recording, ADR, Performance Capture and Facial Capture, helping ensure sessions run efficiently and that audio, assets and associated data are captured accurately, on time and to a consistently high standard.\nThe role suits an engineer who combines strong technical knowledge with speed, accuracy, organisation and sound judgement in a fast-moving studio environment.\nWhat you'll be doing\nEngineer recording sessions at our London studios, ranging from wild dialogue recording through to full ADR sessions.\nSet up, engineer and run Performance Capture and Facial Capture sessions using technologies including MetaHuman, Head Mounted Camera systems and Reference Camera workflows.\nEnsure audio, performance and associated data are captured accurately and in line with the project brief.\nPrepare studio session assets, including audio and video reference files and dialogue scripts.\nPrepare ADR sessions for your own work and for other engineers.\nManage studio sessions efficiently while maintaining a high level of technical accuracy and recording quality.\nMaintain organised and reliable session, file and asset workflows.\nMaintain studios and studio equipment where practicable.\nContribute to the development of studio services, technical processes and workflows as part of an international team.\nRecord location audio on set with Motion Capture partners where required.\nWork closely with clients, directors, talent and internal colleagues to support successful session and project delivery.\nFollow company Security, Confidentiality, Health & Safety, IT and HR procedures and support compliance with these requirements across the team.\nEnsure your work and professional conduct align with appropriate ethical standards and the values of the organisation.\nWhat we're looking for\nYou will have 3+ years' professional experience as an engineer within a commercial post-production recording studio, ideally including dialogue and/or ADR recording.\nYou will also bring:\nStrong practical experience managing professional studio recording sessions.\nStrong working knowledge of Pro Tools, with the ability to operate confidently and efficiently in live recording environments.\nExperience using other DAWs. Experience with Reaper would be advantageous.\nExcellent understanding of audio, video and general studio technology.\nExperience working with dialogue, ADR, voice-over or another relevant professional recording environment.\nStrong technical accuracy and disciplined studio workflows.\nThe ability to work quickly and effectively during high-volume or time-sensitive recording sessions.\nExcellent client-facing communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.\nThe ability to work independently when required while contributing effectively as part of a wider team.\nConfidence taking direction from senior colleagues and providing appropriate guidance to more junior team members.\nA proactive, dependable and collaborative approach to your work.\nHow you work\nTechnical capability is important, but how you operate in the studio matters just as much.\nOur Audio Engineers work directly with clients, directors and talent, sometimes in demanding or high-pressure sessions. You will need to remain calm, composed and technically focused even when priorities change or different stakeholders have competing views.\nYou should be comfortable:\nRemaining calm and professional under pressure.\nCommunicating confidently without bringing unnecessary ego into the room.\nHandling differing opinions diplomatically.\nMaintaining technical performance when sessions become demanding.\nExercising good judgement when issues arise.\nBuilding credibility with both creative and technical stakeholders.\nLearning new tools, technologies and workflows quickly.\nYour background\nRelevant experience may come from a range of professional recording environments, including:\nGames dialogue recording\nADR\nVoice-over\nLocalisation and dubbing\nPost-production\nBroadcast\nTelevision or film dialogue recording\nSpecialist recording studios\nPrevious games experience is valuable, but strong transferable experience in professional dialogue or voice recording is also relevant to the role.\nAbout SIDE\nSIDE is a multi-award-winning specialist in games dialogue production, working in a fast-paced and creative environment across the video game industry.\nWith more than 20 years of experience and an international network of technical and creative specialists, SIDE works to deliver authentic interpretations of each client's vision across genres, platforms and languages.\nOur teams combine audio production, technology and creative collaboration to support projects for clients around the world.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5181,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services","Real Estate","PropTech","Real Estate Brokerage"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T17:58:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:11","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/side-audio-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/side-audio-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T11:10:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2634,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2366,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}