Sound Design Intern - Summer 2025

As a Sound Design Intern, your technical and creative audio skills will combine to bring life to the broad range of characters and experiences in our games. Joining efforts with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll help drive projects from their inception. Using your passion, creativity, and critical thinking you will continue to challenge and grow yourself as a member of the audio discipline.

As a Sound Design Internon League of Legends, you will be focused on designing sound and audio content for various product teams, with creative guidance and insight from product leads and initiative audio leads. You will also be endlessly creative, and motivated to level up in craft and process to make your ideas a reality for players. With direction and feedback, you can hit the quality bar of your craft, and are always hungry to apply what you have learned to the next challenge.

Please note, you will not be involved in the creation or production of music.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and execution of audio for characters, skin-lines or other recurring features.
• Develop constructive working relationships with others to achieve team goals.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to understand appropriate processes for audio content delivery.
• Collaborate with central teams to ensure thematic consistency across in-game and out of game features.
• Record, edit, and design sound effects using industry standard methods and tools.
• Navigate discipline and team feedback.
• Ensure quality of asset output by playtesting and gathering daily feedback on your content from your team and discipline.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduating in the 2026 calendar year
• Available to work full-time hours for the 12 week internship duration
• Eligible to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program
• Minimum GPA of 2.5
• Currently enrolled in a college, university or non degree program
• Familiarity with the holistic game audio process (i.e. Sound Design, Voice Over, Technology, Player Experience)
• Proficiency with sound design creation tools (i.e. ProTools, Nuendo, Reaper, Izotope, Waves, Native Instruments) and techniques
• Knowledge of sound design and voice over implementation methods
• Knowledge of one audio middleware (i.e. Wwise, Fmod)

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with overall game engine technology (i.e. Unreal, Unity)
• Experience working within collaborative team environments

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Reel Submission Advice:

• Reel should showcase audio work to visuals
• Reel may contain work from school projects that are a fit for this internship
• Ideally showcases game audio work, though audio work for linear media (films, trailers etc.) is also okay
• It should specify your exact contribution in cases where you are highlighting a group project

Reel should NOT include music work, as this internship is not focused on music

Applications close Friday, January 10th, 2025 at 11:59pm PT

Our Perks:

Riot Internships are paid, and interns can also participate in our 401(k) plan. You can expect in-game perks, and the ability to participate in our Play Fund, so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games. The University Programs team also invites you to intern focused events so you can connect with your fellow interns and Rioters to make the most out of your experience.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.

(Remote Only) The hourly rate for this internship is USD $31.83 per hour.