Grass Valley is hiring: Broadcast Engineer (1 year contract) in N...
Grass Valley - New York, NY, United States, 10261
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Overview
Grass Valley is looking for an experienced Video/Broadcast Engineer to work embedded at one of our major global broadcast customers.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for end-to-end fulfillment of assigned projects and tasks, including installation, configuration and commissioning of video equipment and software applications.
- Coordinates in-house and third-party resources to fulfill system integration tasks for documentation, fabrication and installation.
- Collaborates with in-house technical support teams to perform system acceptance testing and training.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in the design, build, and commissioning of technical systems for broadcast playout, distribution, and live streaming via IP.
- Knowledge of baseband HD/SD video, compressed video/audio encoding, IP transport stream distribution, in-band and out-of-band metadata payloads, OTT streaming architecture, and IP networking principles including multicast.
- Proven ability to test and qualify compressed video transport streams and compression technologies at the packet level, including MPEG-4 H.264, HEVC H.265, MPEG-2 and JPEG-2000.
- Familiarity with relevant industry standards, test tools and applications used in the acceptance testing of compressed video streams.
Additional Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience in scripting, process automation, data acquisition, measurement and analysis tools.
- Familiarity with video encryption and conditional access systems for content protection, broadcast and infrastructure monitoring and control systems, and Ethernet network topologies.
- Familiarity with digital Ad Insertion systems, Targeted Advertisement signaling and video industry protocols such as SCTE-104 and SCTE-35.
- Familiarity with industry developments in key technical areas of standardization and can articulate benefits/risks of various technology solutions.
- Familiarity with Agile project management tools and techniques such as SCRUM and JIRA.
- Demonstrates ability to manage assigned projects to tight timelines.
- Demonstrates ability to perform technical analysis, exercise judgment, communicate with clarity and influence key technical decisions.
- Possesses understanding of the modern video technology landscape including broadcast and streaming media.
- Remains grounded in scientific method and objective analysis, representing a disciplined engineering approach at all times.
- Maintains an awareness of best practices in the technology industry and implements forward-looking best of breed solutions.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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