Audio Engineer, Live Video
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsitesenior$240k–$266k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead A1 audio for high-profile livestreams and broadcast-style productions.
- Mix live full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models.
- Design resilient audio systems for studios, venues, and on-location shoots.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A seasoned live audio engineer who thrives under pressure as A1 for high-stakes broadcasts and loves crafting flawless spoken-word sound for live, studio, and on-location productions.
Requirements
- 8+ years engineering complex live, broadcast, and studio production including high-profile livestreams and public venue events
- Proven experience serving as A1 when failures are immediately visible
- Expert command of gain structure, routing, EQ, dynamics, automixing, feedback control, noise suppression, mix-minus, IFB, intercom, 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, and QoS
- Expert wireless-microphone and RF coordination including frequency planning and antenna distribution
- Ability to capture exceptional spoken-word audio and mix full-duplex speech-to-speech between humans and AI models
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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