Live Broadcast Systems Support Engineer

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg’s Broadcast Engineering Group in New York seeks a experienced Broadcast Support Engineer to join our Media Technology Engineering team. You will support, maintain, upgrade, and install complex broadcast and media systems for live television, radio, studio production, contribution, and digital distribution.

You will work across the media signal chain—from cameras and audio to IP routing and cloud interfaces—solving production-critical issues and collaborating with engineering,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a technical engineering or support role. Broadcast, media, or live production experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work quickly and independently during high-pressure, production-critical situations.
• Working knowledge of television and radio broadcast systems including cameras, robotics, audio, intercom, production switchers, routing, signal processing, automation, monitoring, and contribution technologies.
• Understanding of broadcast signal flow, SDI/baseband systems, and IP-based media transport and routing.
• Strong understanding of IT technologies including TCP/IP networking, Windows, Linux, macOS, servers, storage, and system administration.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to learn new technologies and adapt as broadcast systems continue to evolve toward IP, virtualization, cloud, and software-defined architectures.
• Willingness and flexibility to work a schedule that will include evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and support for critical production events.

Responsibilities

• Support and troubleshoot broadcast and media systems used for live Television, Radio, studio production, contribution, and digital distribution.
• Respond to on-air and production-critical issues, diagnosing problems across broadcast, networking, compute, storage, and application technologies.
• Install, configure, upgrade, test, and maintain broadcast equipment, servers, applications, storage, and supporting infrastructure.
• Monitor critical systems, logs, alarms, and scheduled processes to identify and resolve issues before they impact production.
• Perform system diagnostics, preventative maintenance, performance tuning, and hardware and software upgrades.
• Work with engineering, operations, networking, infrastructure, vendors, and other technology teams to resolve issues and implement new systems.
• Participate in technology refreshes, system commissioning, testing, and acceptance.
• Create and maintain engineering documentation, system diagrams, procedures, and configuration records.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging broadcast, IP, cloud, and software-defined media technologies.

Skills

Broadcast engineering

Troubleshooting

IP/networking basics

Team collaboration

Job description

Bloomberg’s Broadcast Engineering Group in New York seeks a experienced Broadcast Support Engineer to join our Media Technology Engineering team. You will support, maintain, upgrade, and install complex broadcast and media systems for live television, radio, studio production, contribution, and digital distribution.

You will work across the media signal chain—from cameras and audio to IP routing and cloud interfaces—solving production-critical issues and collaborating with engineering,