Audiovisual Design Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain global enterprise audiovisual (AV) and video conferencing infrastructure with a focus on five 9s availability, reliability, and consistent user experience across all OpenAI offices.
• Develop and own global conference room AV standards, including room archetypes, approved hardware stacks, control patterns, network requirements, and supportability expectations for over 300 AV spaces.
• Produce and maintain standardized AV design packages, technical drawings, build documentation, and revision cycles using CAD tools such as Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, or Visio.
• Establish scalable systems and processes for the full AV technology lifecycle: evaluation, standardization, deployment, support, refresh, and retirement of AV equipment.
• Define technical patterns for AV monitoring, alerting, automation, and operational handoff to enable scalable global support and continuous improvement of AV systems.
• Lead technical reviews for new global office buildouts to ensure alignment with OpenAI’s global AV architecture and user experience goals.
• Oversee AV control code and programming patterns, transitioning from project-specific implementations to a unified, first-party global standard deployed consistently across all locations.
• Define commissioning, QA, and operational handoff requirements for all conference rooms and AV spaces to ensure seamless deployment and user adoption.
• Develop and manage integrations between AV systems and core IT services including monitoring platforms, asset management systems, ticketing systems, calendar integrations, and support workflows.
• Partner with ITAV Events, ITAV Upkeep, Network Engineering, Real Estate, Design and Construction, and Security teams to ensure AV solutions meet business, operational, and technical requirements.
• Own lifecycle management of AV/VC technology including vendor roadmaps, firmware strategy, end-of-life planning, approved substitutions, and global refresh schedules.
• Maintain deep expertise in AV/VC industry trends, emerging technologies, enterprise platform changes, and best practices for deploying AV at global scale.
• Implement and troubleshoot enterprise-grade AV systems using Google Meet, Logitech, QSYS, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, NDI, Dante, ST2110, and other industry-standard platforms.
• Design and deploy AV over IP solutions (QLAN, ST 2110, Dante, NDI) securely within corporate network environments with proper multicast routing, QoS, and IGMP configurations.
• Develop RFPs for AV integration vendors and manage the end-to-end bid, build, and deployment process for global AV projects.
• Implement and support wayfinding and conference room booking hardware and software solutions to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.
• Write and maintain AV scripting (Lua, AppScript, Python) to automate control systems and improve system responsiveness and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with IT ticketing systems and maintain defined SLAs for AV support and incident resolution.
• Stay current with advancements in production AV equipment including Vizrt, AnalogWay, Yamaha, Panasonic, Ross, and MADI for event and broadcast-grade spaces.
• Maintain expertise in MCP integration and cloud hosting for highly available AV services such as monitoring, alerting, and distributed AV transport.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years experience in design, installation, and troubleshooting of enterprise AV systems with direct global-scale implementation of Google Meet, Logitech, and QSYS hardware
• Advanced QSYS programming experience
• Proven experience managing global AV deployments of over 300 conference rooms
• Experience with enterprise networking technologies including multicast routing, switch configuration, QoS, and IGMP
• Demonstrable CAD (Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Visio) drawing package production experience
• Expertise in video conferencing platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams)

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in San Francisco office
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI research and deployment at OpenAI
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including Network Engineering, Real Estate, and Security
• Exposure to cutting-edge AV technologies and global-scale infrastructure challenges

Skills & Technologies

Python

Hybrid

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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