Audio Engineer

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.

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Role overview

UMG are looking for an Audio Engineer to join our Content and Signal Processing R&D team. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of creative audio engineering and advanced technology development delivering high-quality commercial releases while helping shape the next generation of audio tools.

The majority ofthe role is hands-on post-production engineering using emerging technologies and modern workflows to prepareeditdeliverand evaluatereleases in both stereo and immersive formats. These workflows are often complex and demanda high levelof technical precision critical listening ability and creative judgment to achieve excellent results.

Alongside production work you will contribute to R&D initiatives across the full product lifecycle: from early-stage research and experimentation through to real-worlddeployment with other engineers and producers. This includes evaluating audio machine learning modelscreatingand curating datasets developing processing pipelines stress-testing new tools and feeding practical insight back into product development.

The ideal candidate will have deep technicalexpertiseand strong creative instinctable to switch between both lanes with ease. The role is based at our London office (4PS) with regular access to anon-site world-class ATC 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos mix studio.

Job Functions

• Apply advanced audio engineering techniques todeliverhigh-qualityoutputs for commercial releases

• Conductand evaluatetest mixes in stereo andimmersiveformats toevaluatenewtoolsworkflowsand processing approaches

• Assess AI and signal processing model outputs through structured critical listeningand technical analysis

• Design andrunlistening tests both formal(e.g. MUSHRA)and informal

• Create and curatehigh-qualityaudio datasets to support model training validation and benchmarking

• Collaboratecloselywith internalaudioengineering teams to gather feedbackandsupportproductdeployment

• Clearly communicatetechnical concepts to both technical and non-technicalaudiences

• Contribute to iterative product development through structuredexperimentationdocumentationand feedback

• Developimplementandmaintainaudio processing pipelinesand automation workflows including Python-based tools where appropriate

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Minimumthreeyears professional experience in audio engineering

• Deep understanding of music production recording mixing and mastering processes as well as associated workflows and technologies

• Strong technical foundation in digital audio signal processing psychoacousticsand spatial audioprinciples

• Practical experience working with immersive audio formats including Dolby Atmos

• Excellentproficiencyinmodern DAWsparticularlyPro Tools

• Excellent critical listening skillswith the ability to articulate perceptual differences and qualityassessments clearly

• Experience working withcutting-edgeaudio tools including source separation adaptiveprocessing andmodern reverb/emulationtechnologies

Desired

• Degree in audio engineering or a related field

• Experience with audio programming in Python or C

• Demonstrabletrack recordof engineering on commercially released musicacross a range of genres

Person specification

• Creative problem solver with an ability to innovate and adapt to new challenges

• Passionate aboutmusic creation andmotivated by pushingthe boundaries of sound production

• Musical background with good understanding of music theory and practice

• Excellentattention to detail

• Comfortable moving between research-driven technical environments and creative studio settings

• Curiousself-motivatedand proactive

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:

Technology

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1