Broadcast Engineer, Technical Operations

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life showcasing our products services and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events this team is charged with managing the end-to-end planning production in person experiences and all the unique details that make these events special. The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design management operations broadcast and production. Were looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative fields. If thats you then your next home may be here!nnWere seeking a hands-on senior broadcast engineer to work across permanent facilities and temporary event environments. Youll work at the intersection of traditional broadcast engineering and modern IP media systems helping ensure the technical systems that carry video audio and data from source to screen are ready reliable and resilient when it matters most. Your work is directly visible in the clarity of a signal path during a live keynote in the run-book that guides a team through a flawless remote production and in the infrastructure decisions that shape how Apple communicates at scale.

This role provides hands-on engineering support for broadcast facilities transmission operation centers and event production environments. You will work across live production infrastructure readiness signal routing media transport encoding monitoring and troubleshooting with a strong focus on IP-based media will partner with production engineering infosec operations vendors and cross-functional teams to plan deploy operate and maintain systems that support high-visibility events. This role requires sound technical judgment clear communication and the ability to stay focused under live production conditions. You should be comfortable moving between rack-level work system configuration documentation real-time troubleshooting and longer-term infrastructure improvement.

Operate maintain and troubleshoot IP-based broadcast systems within facility transmission operation centers ensuring readiness for live and pre-produced to remote event sites to support setup signal path validation system commissioning and live engineering and support end-to-end IP media workflows including video and audio routing ingest play-out encoding contribution and distribution and troubleshoot IP and non-IP media systems and broadcast network infrastructure and related and maintain systems across broadcast Linux- and macOS-based systems used in broadcast operations along with VMware-virtualized broadcast preventive maintenance firmware management equipment validation and lifecycle planning for broadcast and maintain technical documentation including signal flow diagrams IP addressing plans operational run-books and support real-time technical issues during live events with clear escalation communication and emerging IP broadcast technologies and help guide practical improvements to the teams infrastructure and with production engineering operations and vendor teams especially when priorities change or issues arise in real are able to travel approximately 20% for remote event support.

10 years of hands-on broadcast engineering experience in live events broadcast facilities production operations or similarly demanding media operating or supporting one or more broadcast platforms such as Imagine Evertz TAG Providius EVS AWS Elemental Ateme Appear or have a strong working knowledge of IP media transport technologies including SMPTE ST 2110 NMOS IS-04/05 JPEG-XS SRT AES67 and understand IP networking in a broadcast context including multicast PTP/IEEE 1588 VLANs QoS -on experience with network infrastructure in a broadcast media or production administering troubleshooting and supporting Linux and macOS systems used in broadcast can diagnose complex signal network timing and system issues under live production use sound judgment to balance technical risk production impact and operational continuity.

Experience with cloud media services or hybrid workflows including AWS MediaConnect or related with VMware virtualization supporting broadcast or media supporting corporate events technology-sector events product launches town halls or executive contributing to technical operations center buildouts facility upgrades or infrastructure or automation experience with Python Bash or similar tools applied to broadcast with professional broadcast communications systems including intercom IFB and program audio with Arista network infrastructure in a broadcast media or production environment.