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.
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.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
Own multitrack recording, editorial handoff, backup, delivery, and archival workflows.
Requirements
8+ years engineering complex live, broadcast, and studio production.
Proven experience serving as A1 in high-stakes environments.
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 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.
Expert wireless-microphone and RF coordination skills.
Advanced microphone selection and placement skills.
Ability to mix full-duplex speech-to-speech audio between humans and AI models.
Fluency with broadcast encoders, embedded audio, streaming protocols, conferencing platforms.
Expert-level understanding of room acoustics.
Functional audio post-production skills.
Willingness to work onsite, travel globally, and support rehearsals outside standard hours.
Conditions
Onsite role: 5 days a week in the San Francisco office.
Global travel and support outside standard hours when critical productions require it.