Audio Systems Technician

Location: San Francisco, CA, Onsite 40 hours a weekType: Ongoing contract opportunityCompensation Range: $55-$60/hr W2The Audio Systems Technician is a technical specialist supporting Video Production, Live Production, and Engineering pillars. This role operates, maintains, and engineers the audio systems used for live events, hybrid productions, executive broadcasts, and recorded content. In addition to day-to-day mixing and system operation, the role serves as the subject-matter expert for audio across event spaces, control rooms, conferencing platforms, and remote production environments.Responsibilities:Provide audio technical support, oversight, and mixing across Video Production, Live Production, and Engineering pillars for live, hybrid, streamed, recorded, and executive-level productions.Support pre-production planning, system setup, sound checks, live show operation, troubleshooting, recording, and post-production handoff.Collaborate with producers, directors, engineers, creative teams, integrators, and vendors to integrate audio into broadcast, conferencing, and video production workflows.Operate, configure, and maintain consistent audio quality across professional consoles, DSP systems, wireless microphones, playback, and networked infrastructure (including Dante, Q-SYS, Biamp, Yamaha, Zoom Rooms, and Cisco codecs).Manage audio signal flow and routing between event venues, control rooms, conferencing platforms, livestream destinations, and remote production environments.Diagnose and resolve complex audio, networking, echo-cancellation, gain-staging, latency, routing, synchronization, and system-integration issues, serving as an escalation resource for live incidents.Develop technical solutions and partner with Engineering to design, test, maintain, document, and improve permanent and portable audio systems.Manage audio infrastructure projects, system deployments, equipment upgrades, repairs, procurement, and vendor support cases to ensure spaces remain ...