Head of A/V – DATALAND

Location: Los Angeles, CA (On-site, Full Time)
Salary Range: $90,000 – $120,000 (based on experience)

About DATALAND

DATALAND is the world’s first Museum of AI Arts: a groundbreaking cultural destination where human creativity and machine intelligence merge to create breathtaking, multi-sensory experiences. Designed by Frank Gehry and powered by our proprietary Large Nature Model, DATALAND integrates data, light, sound, scent, and immersive environments at unprecedented scale.

As we prepare to open our flagship location in Downtown Los Angeles, we are seeking a Head of A/V to lead and manage the complex digital and physical infrastructure that brings our vision to life.This is not a traditional IT role: this is a chance to architect the beating heart of a museum where data itself becomes art.

Key Qualifications & Requirements

  1. Experience: 5 years experience in AV integration, tech operations, or owner design representation. Priority placed on custom AV environments, not standards-based programs.
  2. Mindset: comfort working with cutting edge technology
  3. High Availability: experience with high availability architecture
  4. Creative Technology: experience with technology applications in art, theater, or immersive experiences

Comfortable with regular maintenance tasks associated with AV & control systems

  1. Swap drivers in loudspeaker cabinets
  2. Pull cold spares from storage, load configuration files from database, and deploy
  3. Run projector warping and blending routines using Scalable Display Technologies systems.
  4. Replace fatiguing LED wall tiles with spares, manage available spares to minimize downtime.
  5. Swap malfunctioning cards from modular frame devices that are in common broadcast and AV systems.
  6. Capable of re-terminating various cable types; RJ45, Fiber Optics, XLR, NL4, Phoenix blocks, Coax,
  7. Execute simple repairs, manage contracts with service organization for support on complex issues

Proficient in custom control systems;

  1. Comfort with QSYS control paradigms. Experience with, Crestron, Extron, & AMX a plus.
  2. Able to write drivers for API communication between control systems, end devices, or computers
  3. Relevant coding experience: Python, JSON, NodeRed

Proficient in audiovisual systems;

  1. QSC QSYS
  2. L-Acoustics L-ISA
  3. Novastar H-Series Video Wall Processors
  4. Absen LED wall
  5. Comfortable working with projectors, lenses, and auto-calibration/warping/blending systems.
  6. Comfort working with 10 bit 4kUHD 60Hz video

Experience running live events

  1. Experience with short term deployments (e.g. art activations, film, production, live events)
  2. Audio mixing
  3. Video production switching
  4. DMX lighting systems
  5. adjusting to complex and fluid production demands.
  6. Familiarity with rigging norms and safe practices in live events

Advanced troubleshooting skills,

  1. Pulling and reading logfile outputs,
  2. Interpreting observability performance data and intuiting performance issues,
  3. Critical listening skills to diagnose loudspeaker driver failures, network performance issues, or changes in audio processing profiles
  4. Troubleshooting video connection negotiation issues related to EDID communication, HDCP failures, and SDI streams.
  5. Use video vector monitor to diagnose video distortion issues induced by cables, sync, or improperly configured equipment.

Experience with media fabric networks:

  1. SDVOE, AES-67, AVB, QLAN, NDI, NTP/PTP
  2. Comfortable operating custom routing schemes on all platforms and using common orchestration platforms like Dante Controller, NDI Tools, and Aurora Multimedia IPBaseT Manager

Experience with IT networks a plus:

  1. Familiar with Juniper & Netgear hardware
  2. Network management systems: DNS, DHCP, multicast traffic, VLAN Tagging

Physical Requirements

  1. Able to lift 40 pounds, climb ladders, work on catwalks and tight spaces.

Why Join DATALAND?

  1. Be part of a world-first institution at the forefront of art, technology, and science.
  2. Work with a visionary team redefining how audiences experience culture.
  3. Collaborate on systems that merge IT, AV, and AI in unprecedented ways.
  4. Competitive salary and benefits with room for growth as DATALAND expands worldwide.

How to Apply:

Send your resume and a brief statement of interest to careers@dataland.art  with the subject line: Head of A/V – DATALAND.