Audio Editor

Responsibilities

• Prepare, clean, and optimize spoken-word audio for post-production delivery
• Utilize iZotope RX and Pro Tools to diagnose, flag, and edit audio to client specifications
• Communicate flags, discoveries, and qualitative/quantitative audio statistics to the team
• Engage with technical teams on editing scenarios and suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Identify room tone inconsistencies, mic changes, phase issues, plosives, sibilance, and mouth noise
• Detect clipped dialogue, formant damage, intelligibility loss, and over-processing artifacts

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in dialogue editing, audiobook, podcast, or spoken-word post-production
• Proficiency in iZotope RX and Avid Pro Tools
• Familiarity with spoken-word loudness standards (e.g., Audible/ACX targets)
• In-depth knowledge of spectrograms
• Access to a studio-level listening/monitoring environment
• Ability to differentiate between performance issues and technical issues
• Strong time management and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Audio Engineering, Music Production, Acoustics, or a closely related field