Audiovisual Design Engineer

About the Team OpenAI’s IT organization supports the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all. Our team is committed to providing seamless technological support and solutions to ensure that all OpenAI employees are well-equipped and connected. This enables them to contribute effectively towards our AI research, corporate operations and product initiatives. About the Role As an Audiovisual (AV) Engineer at OpenAI you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing and ensuring the availability, reliability, and exceptional ease-of use of our conference room audio visual and video conferencing infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have expert-level experience in audiovisual design, programming and implementation of enterprise AV systems and moderate but demonstrable networking and general IT capabilities. This is a hybrid role and will require 3 days a week in our San Francisco office. In this role, you will: - Develop, own, and continuously improve global conference room AV and video conferencing standards, with a focus 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 for managing the full AV technology lifecycle, including 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 each project aligns 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, including monitoring, alerting, asset management, ticketing, calendar systems, and support workflows. - Partner closely 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. You might thrive in this role if you have: - 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, especially for highly available AV services like monitoring and alerting, and distributed AV transport. - Proven experience managing global AV office deployments of over 300 av spaces. - Demonstrable CAD (Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Visio) drawing package production experience. - Event space design and commissioning experience with production equipment like Vizrt, AnalogWay, Yamaha, Panasonic, QSYS, NDI, Dante Ross, ST2110, Madi, etc.. - AV Scripti

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