# Audio Engineer, Live Video at Openai

> Own audio design and A1 execution for high-profile livestreams, broadcasts, and on-location shoots, keeping spoken-word audio reliable.

- Company: Openai (openai.com)
- Location: San Francisco
- Places: San Francisco, United States
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Level: Senior
- Team: Global Events Studio Team
- Work mode: On site
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/775ef7de-c9aa-423e-b00c-a43124068bdb
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/audio-engineer-live-video-openai-kn74d6x4j81a3awh8der0gyens8ha9p4

## The posting

Audio Engineer, Live Video
Openai · San Francisco

**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 preven