Senior Audiovisual Infrastructure Engineer

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to a global platform with over 5 million hosts. The team builds, operates, and maintains Airbnb’s global video production and large-scale audiovisual infrastructure in event spaces, collaboration hubs, and large specialty conference rooms at offices around the world. You will work closely with the Infrastructure builds team, the live production crew, and the office of the CEO to deliver highly functional and reliable AV infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, build, commissioning, and maintenance phases of 30–100 person multipurpose spaces, boardrooms, and large conference room AV systems in concert with external AV consultants and AV integrators.
• Perform R&D of new technologies and innovative designs for these systems, including building and testing proofs of concept. Includes research into the frontier of AI technologies.
• Work closely with the IT builds project management team throughout the design and build phases.
• Assist in the design and operation of broadcast-grade AV infrastructure for large-scale event spaces supporting audiences of 100–1,000 people.
• Conduct hands-on proof-of-concept testing in the lab and commission broadcast studio systems to ensure every system fires correctly.
• Travel to global offices to work alongside local AV integrators for commissioning and testing.
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners to align on what’s next and ensure AV is never an afterthought.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in AV system design, integration, and implementation, emphasizing design for reliability and supportability.
• Q-SYS Certifications level 2.
• Qsys programming and commissioning (Control, UI, and DSP programming/troubleshooting); camera tracking experience is a plus.
• Zoom Rooms as a VC platform (commissioning, administration, testing, and troubleshooting).
• Experience with broadcast AV systems, including video cameras, video switchers, digital audio mixing consoles, and SDI/IP backbone infrastructures.
• Programming and troubleshooting digital signal processing systems (QSC, Biamp, Yamaha, etc.) and Dante networked audio routing and configuration.
• Expert troubleshooting of complex systems (audio, video, network, control).
• Ability to create AV schematics.
• Working knowledge of IP networking design and troubleshooting, along with basic switch configuration and VLANs.
• Ability to assess, identify, manage, and mitigate risk factors across complex systems.
• Project management experience (planning, coordinating with others, driving progress).
• Ability to research, clarify, condense, and document complex R&D projects.
• Experience with technical and end-user documentation of projects (as-builts, runbooks, troubleshooting guides).
• Based onsite daily in San Francisco, with occasional domestic and international travel to commission new systems at global offices.

Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

• $164,000—$193,000 USD