Sound Designer

Do you want to be responsible to design sounds that are related to the cognitive/interactive driving experience? 

Scania is undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Scania´s department for Industrial Design, Interaction Design, and Physical Ergonomics performs a central role in the creation and communication of Scania´s transformation towards driving the shift. By defining the product expression and customer experience, we keep the current platform up to date, whilst also staking out the future for our vehicles and services. With a broad portfolio of projects in relation to a more sustainable and digital future, we are now expanding and looking for a Sound Designer.

 Who we are

Driver Solutions HMI team is responsible for the interaction design for Scania’s trucks and buses. The group is positioned within Scania’s Research and Development at the Design Department, but our collaborations span several business areas and departments. Our working environment is characterized by inclusion, team spirit, flat hierarchy, and transparency. Currently, the team’s focus is to investigate how trends such as digitalization, electrification, and advanced driver assistance systems will shape the future driver workplace. The group consists of Interaction Designers, UX Designers, one Sound Designer and two supported roles, a Scrum Master and a UX Studio Engineer.

Your work assignment

As a Sound Designer, you will be responsible to create sounds that are related to the cognitive/interactive experience such as informative sounds triggered by a function. You will also work with sounds from a perceived quality perspective. You stand for the voice of a good fit between human and technology which guides your design decisions in a cross-functional context. You will develop new sound design in quick iterations and conduct user testing to objectively prove and verify your design.

To be successful in this position, you need to be creative, flexible, and a dedicated team player. You are a problem solver with an ability to quickly navigate between details and contexts. You have a passion for design and are a natural communicator that is skilled at proving your opinion.

Your profile

Sound Related

– Experience in designing sounds for a multi-modal experience e.g. audiovisual, or specific user context.

– Experience in designing brand specific sounds that are cohesive over multiple platforms and contexts e.g. in-truck, in-app, marketing content or AVAS.

– Experience in designing sounds and mixing for different formats e.g. mono, stereo, 5.1, Dolby Atmos etc.

– Knowledge about automotive sound design challenges, possibilities, and requirements

– Knowledge of digital as well as analog processing of sound signals

– Understanding how different frequencies acoustically distributes and behave physically

– Interest in prototyping sound related hardware and software for user test, evaluations and beta implementations

 Role related

– Experience and genuine interest in collaborating with experts within other fields of expertise e.g. programmers, engineers, graphic and UX/UI designers.

– Proactively sharing knowledge about the process/importance/requirements of sound design, and doing so in a comprehensive manner

– Confident in working autonomously, structured and adaptively for long- and short-term targets simultaneously.

Fluent in

– Recording, editing, mixing and mastering sounds in a professional DAW e.g. Logic Pro, Ableton, Pro Tools or Nuendo.

For more information, please contact Karolina Ingre, mail: [email protected]

Don't hesitate to apply if you have the above profile, we are interviewing continuously. 

Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2020, we delivered 66,900 trucks, 5,200 buses as well as 11,000 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 125 billion, of which over 20 percent were services-related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 50,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: http://www.scania.com.