Mixing Engineer- AI Dubbing
Iyuno · Burbank, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Mixing Engineer is responsible for leading the creative and technical execution of dubbed audio mixes & QC, ensuring all content meets client expectations, technical specifications, and client delivery standards. This role plays a key part in minimizing client rejections by proactively preventing technical errors, ensuring compliance with clients’ requirements. In addition to hands-on AI voice conversion, mixing & QC, the Mixing Engineer provides guidance to all Junior Engineers, supports cross-team alignment, and contributes to continuous improvement of technical workflows and standards alongside Team Leader.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert in key tools, systems, or processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical/audio issues during and after production.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, tools, and processes.
- Maintain high standards of work quality, quality control and consistency.
- Drive initiatives and postmortems to enhance productivity and reduce bottlenecks.
- Lead rejection investigations to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
- Maintain accurate session documentation, file management, and version control.
- Collaborate with required production stakeholders or other related teams to resolve any issues or workflow inefficiencies.
- Conduct technical/skill tests and trainings for new hires and/or freelancers.
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to team members
- Constantly assess and identify appropriateness of established SLAs for each type of contents.
- Shared capacity and resource management with Team Leader.
- Take full ownership of assigned projects or workflows from start to finish.
- Provide administrative or technical support as needed and undertaking project tasks as required by Team Leader and/or Production Manager.
- Stay updated on industry trends, tools, and emerging technologies in audio production.
- Conversion: Operate and manage AI voice generation and voice conversion tools to produce high-quality localized audio outputs.
- Premix: Edit and align generated AI speech tracks to match picture, ensuring flawless lip-syncing, natural phrasing, and proper dramatic pacing.
- Mix: Blend generated AI voice into regular mixing process to produce a natural, master localized audio output.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Audio Engineering, Sound Production, or related fields/experiences
- 4-7 years of experience in audio post-production, or dubbing workflow
Skills
- Strong knowledge of audio technology and audio theory
- Experience in both 2.0 and 5.1 editing or mixing
- Advanced understanding of Pro Tools, including complex session structures
- Experience with audio plugins for audio editing (e.g., de-noise, de-reverb, vocal/dialogue removal tools, restoration processing)
- Experience with mixing plugins and processes (e.g., EQ, compression, time-based effects such as reverb and delay, modulation effects)
- Experience with QC tools (e.g. Spectrum Analyzer, Stereo Detector) or loudness analyzers
- Strong critical