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OpenAI's Global Events Studio Team is seeking a senior Audio Engineer to serve as the audio authority for high-profile livestreams, broadcast-style productions, studio recordings, public venue events, and critical on-location shoots.
In this role, you will own audio design and A1 execution for complex broadcasts, live stage events, podcasts, and critical film/on-location shoots. You will build and operate redundant program, stream, multitrack, camera, backup-recorder, and archival audio paths with real-time monitoring and recovery procedures. A key responsibility is mixing full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models—a unique capability reflecting OpenAI's focus on AI-enabled production workflows.
You will design, commission, standardize, document, and improve audio signal flow for studios, control rooms, event spaces, and portable production systems. You'll rapidly assess unfamiliar venues and design reliable systems around acoustic, power, network, access, RF, and footprint constraints. You will lead rigorous preproduction including technical designs, input lists, patch plans, frequency plans, rehearsals, testing, monitoring, redundancy, and fallback capture.
During live production, you will diagnose and repair signal-chain, DSP, synchronization, routing, RF, networking, and hardware faults under pressure. You will lead audio crews and freelancers, challenge flawed technical plans, and communicate decisive options when failures are immediately visible. You will own multitrack recording, editorial handoff, backup, delivery, and archival workflows across professional formats and specifications.
The role requires 5 days per week onsite in San Francisco, with global travel and support outside standard hours when critical productions require it.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 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
