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Audio Engineer, Live Video

OpenAI· Marketing
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior audio authority for high-profile livestreams, broadcast-style productions, studio recordings, and on-location events. Designs resilient audio systems, serves as A1 during critical failures, and delivers exceptional spoken-word audio across live, recorded, remote, and AI-enabled production workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own audio design and A1 execution for complex broadcasts, live stage events, podcasts, and critical film/on-location shoots
  • Build and operate redundant program, stream, multitrack, camera, backup-recorder, and archival audio paths with real-time monitoring and recovery procedures.
  • Mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models
  • Design, commission, standardize, document, and improve audio signal flow for studios, control rooms, event spaces, and portable production systems.
  • Rapidly assess unfamiliar venues and design reliable systems around acoustic, power, network, access, RF, and footprint constraints.
  • Lead rigorous preproduction: technical designs, input lists, patch plans, frequency plans, rehearsals, testing, monitoring, redundancy, and fallback capture.
  • Diagnose and repair signal-chain, DSP, synchronization, routing, RF, networking, and hardware faults during live production.
  • Lead audio crews and freelancers, challenge flawed technical plans, and communicate decisive options under pressure.
  • Own multitrack recording, editorial handoff, backup, delivery, and archival workflows across professional formats and specifications.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years engineering complex live, broadcast, and studio production, including high-profile livestreams, public venue events, design, configuration, and programming of physical audio infrastructure, and critical on-location filming or streaming.
  • Proven experience serving as A1 when failures are immediately visible and time for sophisticated workarounds is measured in seconds.
  • Expert command of gain structure, routing, EQ, dynamics, automixing, feedback control, real time noise suppression, mix-minus, IFB, intercom, playback, comms, and latency management.
  • Deep experience designing and troubleshooting redundant program, stream, multitrack, camera, backup-recorder, and archival audio paths.
  • Advanced proficiency with networked audio and DSP systems such as Dante, AVB, SMPTE ST 2110, Q-SYS, Yamaha, and Shure.
  • Strong IP-networking knowledge, including clocking, multicast, VLANs, QoS, and diagnosing failures across audio, control, and enterprise IT environments.
  • Expert wireless-microphone and RF coordination skills across crowded, high-consequence production environments, including frequency planning, antenna distribution, and intermodulation.
  • Ability to capture exceptional spoken-word audio for keynote presenters, executive livestream hosts, stage panels, podcasts, voiceover, remote guests, and acoustically difficult spaces.
  • Advanced microphone selection and placement skills, including lavalier concealment, boom technique, room treatment, noise control, and feedback prevention.
  • Ability to mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models for a variety of different event formats
  • Fluency with broadcast encoders, embedded audio, streaming protocols, conferencing platforms, and external distribution endpoints.
  • Expert-level understanding of room acoustics and a fundamental understanding of acoustic science.
  • Demonstrated success diagnosing and repairing signal-chain, DSP, synchronization, routing, RF, networking, and hardware faults during live production.
  • Strong multitrack recording, timecode, sync, metadata, editing, mixing, delivery, backup, and archival judgment across professional formats and loudness specifications.
  • Functional audio post-production skills, including dialogue cleanup, noise reduction, EQ, dynamics, mix revisions, and delivery preparation.
  • Ability to lead audio crews, support technical freelancers, challenge flawed technical plans, and communicate decisive options under pressure.
  • Willingness to work onsite, travel globally as needed, and support rehearsals or productions outside standard hours when critical productions require it.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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