Openai
Audio Engineer, Live Video
San Francisco. Posted 28 days ago
The role
The Audio Engineer will serve as the senior audio authority for high-profile livestreams, broadcasts, studio recordings, and live events. You will design audio systems, execute A1 duties, and manage audio workflows for human and AI-enabled productions.
What you will do
- Own audio design and A1 execution for broadcasts, live stage events, podcasts, and film shoots
- Build and operate redundant audio paths including program, stream, multitrack, and backup
- Mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models
- Design, standardize, and improve audio signal flow for studios and event spaces
- Assess venues and design systems around acoustic, power, network, and RF constraints
- Lead preproduction including technical designs, input lists, and frequency plans
- Diagnose and repair signal-chain, DSP, synchronization, routing, RF, and networking faults
- Lead audio crews and freelancers
- Manage multitrack recording, editorial handoff, and archival workflows
Required qualifications
- 8+ years engineering complex live, broadcast, and studio production
- Experience serving as A1 when failures are immediately visible
- Expert command of gain structure, routing, EQ, dynamics, and latency management
- Deep experience designing and troubleshooting redundant 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, and QoS
- Expert wireless-microphone and RF coordination skills
- Ability to capture spoken-word audio for presenters, hosts, and remote guests
- Advanced microphone selection and placement skills
- Ability to mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models
- Fluency with broadcast encoders, streaming protocols, and conferencing platforms
- Expert-level understanding of room acoustics and acoustic science
About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.