Broadcast Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

As a Broadcast Engineer, you will rely on your technical knowledge, problem-solving, and people skills to provide day-to-day maintenance and support of our production control rooms, studios, and broadcast and transmission infrastructure. Your objectives are to provide excellent service to our production, operations, and engineering teams. This role is based in San Ramon, California.

This role will work closely with staff, freelancers, vendors, and customers to ensure that high-quality live events are successfully produced and delivered to distribution partners. The person in this role must be a collaborative and clear communicator with a determination to solve real-time issues and develop long-range technology plans. This role is based in San Ramon, California.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Broadcast engineering duties for assigned live broadcasts as first-line support for Production and Transmission teams.

• Support the planning and execution of broadcast technology deployment and maintenance in the facility and field.

• Provision and maintain physical equipment for the facility and field, including case assembly, racking, cabling, electrical, etc.

• Define, document, and help implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) and best practices.

• Availability to participate, respond to, and manage 24x7 responses to emergency needs.

• Other duties as assigned by management.

• Limited travel as required.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of three years experience within an engineering or broadcast maintenance organization.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in IP technology or principles and broadcast technologies design and support, specifically for At-Home (REMI) production models.

• Experience with the following technologies:

• Hardware and Cloud-based CODECs (Nevion, Evertz, Haivision, AWS/Elemental, etc) using J2K, H.264, HEVC, HLS, RTMP, RTP-FEC, SRT, RIST, ZIXI

• Management and troubleshooting production control room and studio infrastructure: video routing, switchers, audio consoles, intercom, graphics, MAM, etc

• Setup and configuration of file-based workflow systems

• Basic networking skills: router & switch config, traceroute, ping, nmap, etc.

• Basic Linux and Windows server administration

• Exposure to key AWS services (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, etc)

• Google apps (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.)

• Project management tools such as Jira

• Good relationship management and negotiation skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to be on-call 24 hours to provide support for escalated issues.

• Ability to lift and move Audio/Visual equipment weighing up to 50 pounds for various broadcast and events needs.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, broadcast, or related field preferred.

• Knowledgeable and passionate about sports.

Rate: $50 hr - $63/hr