Lead AV Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA — hybrid, with office attendance approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role. The role is San Francisco based and includes travel to hirify.global sites and event-hours flexibility.

Salary: $185,000–$208,000 annual cash compensation for San Francisco.

Company

hirify.global provides payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and HR solutions for more than 500,000 small businesses.

What you will do

• Design, program, test, troubleshoot, and implement audiovisual systems across offices, meeting spaces, and event venues.
• Author the company-wide AV standard covering room tiers, signal flow, control systems, cameras, lighting, and event production.
• Architect and direct executive meetings, customer events, all-hands meetings, fireside chats, onsites, and podcast productions.
• Lead the AV workstream for the migration from Zoom to Google Meet across more than 200 conference rooms.
• Own the multi-site capital roadmap, vendor relationships, office buildouts, upgrades, and AV SaaS administration.
• Use AI and automation for room health reporting, documentation, show-control logic, platform analysis, and vendor evaluation while coaching support and event teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of AV engineering experience, including senior-most or design-owning responsibility in a multi-site organization.
• Experience producing designs of record, including room tiers, signal flow, rack elevations, and control narratives.
• Technical direction experience for high-stakes executive-fronted or external-facing live events, including failover planning.
• Deep expertise in AV control, audio, video, lighting, AV-over-IP, streaming, meeting-room platforms, and network architecture.
• Experience with Google Meet, Zoom Rooms, Neat, Logitech, Dante, live-streaming platforms, PTZ and broadcast cameras, show programming, and post-production tools.
• Experience owning AV budgets, capital roadmaps, integrator and manufacturer relationships, and negotiated technical tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• QSC control-system experience; Crestron, Biamp, and Extron experience.
• Experience with Barco E2, Ross Ultrix, Blackmagic ATEM, AWS MediaLive, AWS MediaConnect, Wirecast, vMix, OBS, QLab, Stream Deck, Bitfocus Companion, OSC, and DaVinci Resolve.
• Familiarity with Sony Cinema Line cameras and ETC, Paradigm, Martin, or Chroma Q lighting systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, high-trust AV Engineering team within AIT Operations.
• AI-forward environment with governed access to tools such as Claude and Claude Code.
• Full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and RSU equity.
• Hybrid work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection on non-office days.
• Role includes collaboration with Workplace, Networking, Client Platform Engineering, Brand, Executive Operations, and IT support teams.