IRCAM is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, located in Paris at 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 Paris. Its mission encompasses research, creation, and educational activities cantered on 21st-century music and its relationship with science and technology.

As part of The Island project, funded by BPI (France 2030 Programme – Immersive Culture and Metaverse), IRCAM is recruiting a Development Engineer on a fixed-term contract of 18 months.

The Island is a B2B and B2C artistic and cultural metaverse, created by Blanca LI, and dedicated to the performing arts. Its objectives are to bring together a community of artists and cultural institutions, to standardise metaverse tools enabling the creation of artistic works in virtual worlds, and to develop a massively multi-user 3D distribution platform incorporating the latest advances in spatial audio. With regard to its audio component, the ambition of The Island project is to provide a platform for creating immersive and interactive content, equipped with a suite of tools based on the open audio object format ADM, developed by international standardisation bodies (EBU and ITU).The project aims to adopt and extend this format for the development of a set of tools for the creation and dissemination of interactive audio content, ultimately enabling 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) navigation across various immersive platforms. These tools will be designed to align with other creative components (visual, choreographic, etc.), ensuring a high level of interactivity and interoperability.

The project will take place on IRCAM’s premises in Paris, within the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces team (EAC), which is part of the STMS Joint Research Unit (UMR9912, IRCAM/CNRS/Sorbonne University/Ministry of Culture). The EAC team focuses in particular on the analysis/synthesis, creation/transmission/reproduction, and perception of immersive sound scenes. 

Real-time network streaming of interactive 3D sound scenes between environments or applications for the creation, distribution, and reception of virtual reality content. 

• State of the art in multichannel audio streaming and compression solutions
• State of the art in ADM stream transmission standards (serial ADM)
• Prototyping of audio stream transmission and reception in the Max/MSP environment
• Prototyping of audio stream transmission and reception in Unity, Wwise, and Web Audio environments
• Prototyping of ADM (serial ADM) stream transmission and reception in Max/MSP, Unity and Web Audio environments

• Excellent knowledge / experience in C++ development
• Knowledge of WebRTC (or similar technologies)
• Understanding of audio compression formats and multichannel audio compression
• Familiarity with 3D engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine
• Knowledge of Web Audio is an advantage
• Experience with the real-time audio creation environment Max/MSP is an advantage

Depending on qualifications and professional experience.

You will also benefit from: 

• 32 days of paid annual leave and 11 additional RTT[1] days (based on full-time employment and a full year of service),
• Meal vouchers worth €11 per working day,
• 50% reimbursement of your Paris region public transport pass, 
• A competitive and mandatory supplementary health and welfare insurance scheme, 
• Social, cultural, and sports benefits (staff association offering outings and leisure activities at attractive rates)
• After the probationary period, a “Culture Card” providing free or discounted entry and reduced prices for cultural venues and products under the Ministry of Culture, as well as priority access (for the cardholder and one accompanying person)

[1] RTT – Réduction du Temps de Travail, i.e. additional paid days off granted in compensation for working more than the standard 35-hour week

Please send a cover letter quoting the reference TISL/STREAMING, along with a CV detailing your level of experience/expertise in the areas mentioned above (as well as any other relevant information), to the following address : eac-jobs.tisl@ircam.fr