Audio Engineer, Live Video
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
The Global Events Studio Team creates exceptional live and recorded video for Press, Marketing, Developer Experience, and Communications.
About the Role
The Audio Engineer will be the senior audio authority for high-profile livestreams, broadcast-style productions, studio recordings, public venue events, and critical on-location shoots. This person will design resilient audio systems, serve as A1 when failures are immediately visible, and deliver exceptional spoken-word audio across live, recorded, remote, and AI-enabled production workflows.
In this role, you will:
- 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.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- 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.
Workplace & Location
This is an onsite role and will require 5 days a week in our San Francisco office, with global travel and support outside standard hours when critical productions require it.