Audio Engineer Live Video
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as the senior audio authority for livestreams, broadcasts, recordings, events, and location shoots. You will design redundant systems, run A1 execution, lead crews, troubleshoot faults, and manage recording, delivery, and archival workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years engineering complex live, broadcast, and studio productions
- Experience serving as A1 during high-consequence productions
- Expert knowledge of gain structure, routing, EQ, dynamics, automixing, feedback control, IFB, intercom, and latency management
- Experience designing and troubleshooting redundant audio paths
- Proficiency with Dante, AVB, SMPTE ST 2110, Q-SYS, Yamaha, and Shure
- IP networking knowledge including clocking, multicast, VLANs, and QoS
- Wireless microphone and RF coordination skills
- Audio post-production skills
- Willingness to work onsite, travel globally, and support productions outside standard hours
Responsibilities
- Own audio design and A1 execution for broadcasts, events, podcasts, and location shoots
- Build and operate redundant audio paths with monitoring and recovery procedures
- Mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models
- Design and improve audio signal flow for studios, control rooms, event spaces, and portable systems
- Lead technical preproduction, rehearsals, testing, and fallback planning
- Diagnose and repair live production audio, DSP, synchronization, routing, RF, networking, and hardware faults
- Lead audio crews and technical freelancers
- Manage multitrack recording, editorial handoff, delivery, backup, and archival workflows
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided