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About the Role

UMG is seeking an Audio Engineer for their Content and Signal Processing R&D team. This role offers a unique opportunity to blend creative audio engineering with advanced technology development, contributing to high-quality commercial releases and the future of audio tools. The position involves hands-on post-production engineering using modern workflows for stereo and immersive formats, alongside contributing to R&D initiatives from research to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced audio engineering techniques to deliver high-quality outputs for commercial releases.
• Conduct and evaluate test mixes in stereo and immersive formats to evaluate new tools, workflows and processing approaches.
• Assess AI and signal processing model outputs through structured critical listening and technical analysis.
• Design and run listening tests, both formal (e.g. MUSHRA) and informal.
• Create and curate high-quality audio datasets to support model training, validation, and benchmarking.
• Collaborate closely with internal audio engineering teams to gather feedback and support product deployment.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to iterative product development through structured experimentation, documentation and feedback.
• Develop, implement and maintain audio processing pipelines and automation workflows, including Python-based tools where appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum three years’ 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, psychoacoustics, and spatial audio principles.
• Practical experience working with immersive audio formats, including Dolby Atmos.
• Excellent proficiency in modern DAWs, particularly Pro Tools.
• Excellent critical listening skills, with the ability to articulate perceptual differences and quality assessments clearly.
• Experience working with cutting-edge audio tools, including source separation, adaptive processing, and modern reverb/emulation technologies.
• Creative problem solver with an ability to innovate and adapt to new challenges.
• Passionate about music creation and motivated by pushing the boundaries of sound production.
• Musical background, with good understanding of music theory and practice.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Comfortable moving between research-driven technical environments and creative studio settings.
• Curious, self-motivated and proactive.

Skills

• Digital audio
• Signal processing
• Psychoacoustics
• Spatial audio principles
• Immersive audio formats (Dolby Atmos)
• DAWs (Pro Tools)
• Critical listening
• Cutting-edge audio tools (source separation, adaptive processing, modern reverb/emulation)
• Audio programming (Python or C++)
• Music theory

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum three years’ professional experience

Education Level

• Degree in audio engineering or a related field (Desired)

About the Company

• Universal Music is the world’s leading music company.
• The company operates within a commercial and innovative business.
• The company is committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
• The company 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.