AV Engineer, Platform & Automation
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · New York City, NY · San Francisco · USD 285,000-325,000 / year · 4+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · New York City, NY · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 285,000-325,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
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 Engineer focused on Platform & Automation, you'll build and own the software layer of Anthropic's collaboration systems — the tools, integrations, and engineering practices that let a small AV team support a fast-growing global office portfolio.
- Your job is to turn that surface into reliable, team-owned tooling, and to bring software engineering discipline to how we build and maintain it.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship internal tools and integrations that monitor, test, and manage AV and collaboration systems across every office
- Develop fleet health monitoring and automated room testing that catch failures before users report them and open actionable tickets automatically
- Build integrations across device and platform APIs — Q-SYS (including plugins and Lua control scripts), Logitech Sync, Google Meet hardware, digital signage; and IT systems such as Jira, Slack, PagerDuty, and Google Workspace
- Automate repetitive operational work: provisioning, configuration baselines, drift detection, certificate renewal, and asset data — with code others can read, test, and maintain
- Own administration and lifecycle of the software platforms behind the AV estate, including firmware and software release management with staged rollouts and rollback plans
- Operate internal tools as production services, with monitoring, alerting, service metrics, and runbooks, on team-owned repositories and service identities so nothing depends on one person
- Establish the team's engineering practices: source control, code review, testing, CI/CD, and release — and bring AV configuration under version control, with standards set for integrator deliverables and acceptance verified before changes land
- Enable AV Engineers, Operations Specialists, and Production staff to contribute safely through templates, guardrails, and review paths built for non-developers
- Partner with Security, IT Engineering, and Network on least-privilege API access, secrets management, and integration with enterprise standards
- Gather requirements from AV Operations, Events, and AV Engineering, prioritize the tooling roadmap by operational impact, and decide where to build, buy, or push a vendor to close a gap
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience across AV, collaboration, or IT systems engineering, including 4+ years writing, shipping, and maintaining production code that other people depend on
- Are fluent in at least one general-purpose language: Python, Lua, Go, TypeScript, or similar — and comfortable with shell scripting
- Practice engineering fundamentals by default: Git-based workflows, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, logging, and observability
- Understand how AV and collaboration systems work: DSP and control, conferencing platforms, room devices, signal flow, AV-over-IP — well enough to build reliable tools on top of them
- Have built integrations against REST APIs, webhooks, and vendor SDKs, and know how to handle auth, rate limits, pagination, retries, and partial failure
- Have owned a tool or service in production over time, not just written it, including fixing it when it broke and handing it off cleanly
- Have defined engineering practices for a team, especially one where most contributors aren't developers
- Turn operational pain into well-scoped tooling, and can say no to work that shouldn't be built
- Thrive in a fast-moving environment where standards are being written rather than inherited
Preferred qualifications
- Q-SYS Lua scripting and plugin development
- Logitech Sync and CollabOS, and Google Meet hardware administration through the Google Admin console and Admin SDK
- Google Workspace APIs, GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager), and Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code
- Jira, Slack, and PagerDuty APIs and automation
- Crestron, Extron, or other control system programming
- Dante, AES67, NDI, and network fundamentals for AV-over-IP, including multicast, VLANs, and QoS
- Building with LLMs — agentic automation, LLM-assisted internal tools, or MCP integrations
- Monitoring and alerting stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana, and containerized deployment
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Workplace
- This role will be based in our San Francisco or New York City office
- This role is expected to be in office 50% of the time
- Up to 4 weeks of domestic and international travel annually for platform rollouts, new-office readiness, and on-site testing
Skills
- Python
- Lua
- Go
- TypeScript
- Git
- Q-SYS
- Logitech Sync
- Google Meet Hardware
- Jira
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Google Workspace
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- GCP
- Terraform
- Prometheus
