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IT Engineering - Audiovisual Broadcast Engineer

San Francisco, CA

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

As an AV Broadcast Engineer, you'll serve as the technical engineering lead ensuring flawless execution of the events and broadcasts that enable communication across our global organization. You'll act as both technical director and primary escalation point for complex production challenges, bringing deep expertise in audio DSP, video broadcast systems, and camera technologies to every event—from intimate executive presentations to company-wide all-hands broadcasts reaching thousands of participants.

This is an opportunity to define what world-class event production looks like at a cutting-edge AI research organization. You'll drive the long-term vision for how events and broadcasts evolve for the audiovisual team while working at the intersection of hands-on engineering and strategic infrastructure planning—making real-time technical decisions during live productions while collaborating on the global broadcast standards and systems that scale with our organization. Your work directly enables the collaboration and transparency that advance our AI safety mission.

Responsibilities

Engineering Lead & Technical Escalation

  • Serve as primary technical escalation point for the events team during complex productions and technical challenges
  • Design and optimize audio and video systems for event spaces including DSP configuration, microphone placement, and camera configurations
  • Troubleshoot sophisticated technical issues requiring deep understanding of signal paths, network architecture, and system integration
  • Oversee and mentor events team members on technical best practices, equipment operation, and troubleshooting methodologies
  • Manage relationships with AV integrators for system upgrades, installations, and complex technical support

Event Production & Technical Direction

  • Work collaboratively with onsite events team to ensure seamless technical execution and successful event outcomes
  • Consult and design technical setups for events ranging from intimate executive presentations to company-wide broadcasts
  • Coordinate with event stakeholders to translate production goals into technical solutions and equipment requirements
  • Drive global event support efforts, ensuring consistent technical standards and knowledge sharing across office locations

System Maintenance & Optimization

  • Oversee preventative maintenance programs for event spaces, ensuring engineering-level diagnostics and procedures are followed
  • Optimize existing AV systems through firmware updates, DSP tuning, camera tuning, network configuration, and equipment calibration
  • Delegate hands-on maintenance tasks to onsite technicians as appropriate while maintaining oversight and quality control
  • Maintain and test inventory of professional event equipment including wireless microphones, cameras, and portable production gear
  • Identify systemic issues requiring architectural improvements and collaborate with AV Engineering team on solutions

Global Broadcast Design & Infrastructure

  • Contribute to architectural decisions for broadcast studios, streaming infrastructure, and event technology across global offices
  • Collaborate with AV Engineering team on standardization of broadcast workflows, equipment specifications, and technical requirements
  • Provide technical input on office expansion projects requiring event spaces or broadcast capabilities
  • Document engineering standards, system designs, and technical specifications for global deployment

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

  • Have 7+ years of hands-on experience in broadcast engineering, live sound reinforcement, or technical event production
  • Possess deep technical expertise in audio DSP, microphone techniques, and acoustic optimization for speech
  • Bring strong knowledge of video broadcast systems including camera operations, signal flow, and multi-camera production
  • Can operate as both the engineer solving complex problems and the technical director calling shots during live productions
  • Excel at building relationships with stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value
  • Take ownership of technical quality end-to-end, from system design through live execution
  • Strive for excellence in every production while maintaining pragmatic judgment about what's achievable within constraints
  • Thrive in environments requiring both strategic thinking and hands-on problem-solving in fast moving environment
  • Bring a collaborative engineering mindset while confidently making technical decisions under pressure

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

  • Q-SYS DSP platforms with experience in audio routing, processing, and control logic
  • Broadcast video switchers such as Blackmagic ATEM, Ross Carbonite, or NewTek TriCaster
  • Large-format digital audio mixing consoles such as Yamaha DM7, CL/QL series, or similar professional platforms
  • Professional broadcast camera systems including PTZ cameras, camera control units, and multi-camera workflows
  • Video conferencing integration and optimization including Google Meet, Zoom Rooms, and hybrid meeting technologies
  • Live streaming architectures including encoders, CDNs, and platform-specific optimization
  • Network fundamentals for AV-over-IP including multicast, VLANs, QoS, and bandwidth management
  • Project leadership or technical direction for corporate broadcasts, conferences, or large-scale productions
  • Contributing to technical specifications, system designs, or infrastructure planning in previous roles

Role Specific Location Policy:

  • This role will be based in our San Francisco HQ
  • This role is expected to be in office 5 days per week
  • 4-6 weeks of travel annually will be expected for this role for distributed support as needed

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$225,000 - $275,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process

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