Audio Engineer, Live Video

About the Team

OpenAIs 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.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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