Audio Engineer, Live Video

Job description

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-min…