Audiovisual Design Engineer

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About the team

OpenAI’s IT organization supports the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all. The IT team provides technological support and solutions to ensure OpenAI employees are well-equipped and connected across research, corporate operations, and product initiatives.

About the role

As an Audiovisual (AV) Engineer at OpenAI you will design, implement, and ensure the availability, reliability, and ease-of-use of conference room audiovisual and video conferencing infrastructure. The role requires expert-level audiovisual design, programming and implementation of enterprise AV systems, plus moderate but demonstrable networking and general IT capabilities. This is a hybrid role and requires 3 days per week in the San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

• Develop, own, and continuously improve global conference room AV and video-conferencing standards focused on reliability, consistency, scalability, and five 9s availability.
• Design and manage enterprise conference room standards including room archetypes, approved hardware stacks, user experience requirements, control patterns, network requirements, and supportability expectations.
• Produce and maintain standard AV drawing packages, design templates, build documentation, and release/revision cycles for global deployment.
• Establish scalable systems and processes to manage the full AV technology lifecycle: evaluation, standardization, deployment, support, refresh, and retirement.
• Define design requirements and technical patterns for AV monitoring, alerting, automation, and operational handoff so global room standards can be supported, measured, and improved at scale.
• Oversee AV control code, programming patterns, and network requirements to move from project-specific implementations to a first-party global standard deployed consistently across offices.
• Lead AV/VC design standards and technical review for new global office buildouts, ensuring alignment with OpenAI’s global AV architecture and user-experience goals.
• Define programming, commissioning, QA, and operational handoff requirements for conference rooms and AV spaces.
• Develop and manage integrations between AV systems and core IT services (monitoring, alerting, asset management, ticketing, calendar systems, and support workflows).
• Partner with ITAV Events, ITAV Upkeep, Network Engineering, Real Estate, Design and Construction, and Security to ensure AV standards meet business, operational, and technical needs.
• Own lifecycle management for conference room AV/VC technology including vendor roadmaps, firmware strategy, end-of-life planning, approved substitutions, and global refresh planning.
• Maintain deep knowledge of AV/VC industry trends, emerging technologies, enterprise platform changes, and best practices for deploying AV at global scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in design, installation, and troubleshooting of enterprise AV including direct experience implementing and using Google Meet, Logitech and QSYS hardware at a global scale.
• Experience with enterprise networking technologies and architectures (multicast routing, switch configuration, QoS, IGMP).
• Advanced QSYS programming experience.
• Cloud hosting experience for highly available AV services (monitoring, alerting, distributed AV transport).
• Proven experience managing global AV office deployments of 300+ AV spaces.
• Demonstrable CAD drawing package production experience (Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Visio).
• Event space design and commissioning experience with production equipment (Vizrt, AnalogWay, Yamaha, Panasonic, QSYS, NDI, Dante, ST2110, MADI, etc.).
• AV scripting experience (Lua, Apps Script, Python). Bonus: MCP integration experience.
• Expertise with video conferencing platforms (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams).
• Experience developing RFPs for AV integration vendors and managing the bid/build process.
• Experience with wayfinding and conference room booking hardware/software.
• Deep understanding of AV over IP (QLAN, ST 2110, Dante, NDI) and safe deployment in a corporate network environment.
• Experience with IT ticketing systems and maintaining support SLAs.

Benefits and other compensation details

• Base pay range: $251,000 - $264,000 annually. Offers equity and additional performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions; Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter pre-tax accounts.
• 401(k) with employer match; paid parental leave and medical/caregiver leave; flexible PTO; 13+ paid company holidays and periodic office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage; annual learning & development stipend; daily office meals and meal credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Background checks administered in accordance with applicable law; reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. The company values diverse perspectives and is an equal opportunity employer. Additional employment policies and privacy details are available via OpenAI links provided to candidates.