Audio Engineer, Live Video

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.