Audio QC Engineer
Audio QC Engineer
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Job Description
Music is Universal
Its the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the worlds leading music company. From A&R to finance legal to digital sales to marketing Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender race disability sexual orientation religion belief age marital status background pregnancy or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism dyslexia ADHD and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition please email
The A Side: A Day in The Life
Sollos is Universal Musics leading audiowellness venture. We combine music and audio from the worlds best artists with cutting edge research into cognitive science and psychoacoustics to create music and soundscapes which have been specifically engineered to help people focus relax and sleep.
We curate tracks from Universal Musics worldclass roster of artists using a rigorous sciencebacked criteria to assess the audios suitability to support better focus relaxation and sleep. Our inhouse audio engineers then use a proprietary algorithm to add special sound waves: auditory beats or coloured noise. Scientific research has shown that these sound waves can help improve mood and enhance cognition. We call these additives sound supplements you may not even notice them but theyre there to infuse our music with extra goodness.
We license our audio to some of the worlds biggest brands to improve the quality of life of millions of people by helping them to focus relax and sleep better.
Universal Music is actively exploring innovations in how music and cognitive science can be combined to support health and wellness. We seek an individual who brings expertise to meet the technical and creative standards required to blend our sound supplements with the worlds best music and help us experiment in developing music and audio for health and wellness.
In this role you will be expected too:
Test music content against technical specifications
Ensure a high level of quality control around audio and metadata
Edit audio to blend our sound supplements with music utilising mixing & compositional techniques to our technical specifications
Create wellness remixes of existing tracks
Support the Audio Science and ML teams with R&D and asset creation and/or collation
Support asset management activities including; timely delivery of assets against commercial deadlines storage & archiving processes
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Professional / Semiprofessional experience as an audio engineer and composer or producer
Professional / Semiprofessional experience in mixing and mastering processes and tools
Proficient at an advanced level in at least one of the following DAWs: ProTools Logic and/or Ableton.
A background in creating music and understanding of music theory
Good understanding of waveform theory and synthesis
Interest in cognitive science and music for wellness
Exceptional collaboration skills
Good communication skills both oral and written
Excellent attention to detail
Needs to be extremely wellorganised
Competent IT experience. This should include Microsoft Office Data Archiving and Asset Management technologies
Ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines
Good knowledge across music genres and artists across time periods (not essential)
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3 and 9
Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholders specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent definitive and exhaustive statement.
Job Category:
TechnologyEmployment Type
Full-Time
