Broadcast Video Formats Engineer – Transcoding

Maximized Media Potential Vidispine; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximized Media Potential Vidispine is seeking an engineer with deep broadcast and video knowledge to build reliable software for our MAM platform. You will own video formats, codecs, and media handling within Kubernetes-based, GitOps-delivered services.

You will work with senior architects and contribute to CI/CD pipelines while ensuring media metadata compliance and high code quality. Fluent English is required; German is a plus.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in broadcast/post-production or MAM environments.
• Solid knowledge of codecs and containers listed in the Must-have section.
• Experience with FFmpeg and media analysis tools.
• Programming experience in Java/.Net/C# and REST APIs.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm, plus Git-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain media-handling features: ingest, analysis, transcoding, proxy generation, and delivery in broadcast-grade formats.
• Analyze and resolve format-related issues (non-conformant files, interlace/frame-rate problems, audio channel mapping, timecode and metadata errors).
• Integrate and tune transcoders and media tools (e.g. FFmpeg, MediaInfo, commercial transcoding engines) in containerized workflows.
• Map and validate technical and descriptive metadata against broadcast standards and customer specifications.
• Support customer projects and escalations with media-domain expertise.
• Contribute to code quality and security (SonarQube, Mend) and to CI/CD pipelines.
• Document format and workflow knowledge so it spreads across the team.

Skills

Broadcast experience

Post-production

MAM environments

Video formats

Codecs knowledge

MXF/MP4 expertise

FFmpeg experience

REST API experience

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

Java/C#/C++

English fluency

German preferred

Tools

FFmpeg

MediaInfo

SonarQube

Mend

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

Maximized Media Potential Vidispine is seeking an engineer with deep broadcast and video knowledge to build reliable software for our MAM platform. You will own video formats, codecs, and media handling within Kubernetes-based, GitOps-delivered services.

You will work with senior architects and contribute to CI/CD pipelines while ensuring media metadata compliance and high code quality. Fluent English is required; German is a plus.