Museum AV & Interactive Media Specialist

LAUKOA; New London, Northern (CT, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid vacation

Job summary

LAUKOA in New London, Connecticut, is seeking an AV Media Specialist to maintain the National Coast Guard Museum’s galleries, theater, and interactive media experiences. The role emphasizes reliability, accessibility, and presentation readiness while handling asset deployment and system calibration.

The candidate will troubleshoot AV hardware and software, support content digitization and captions, and assist with events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in digital media, film/video production, audio engineering, or a related technical field.
• Three to five years of professional AV experience in museum galleries, high-end theaters, live-event production, or comparable high-uptime environments.
• Portfolio demonstrating successful multimedia installations, professional video production, or comparable AV systems work.
• Working knowledge of HDMI, HDBaseT, SDI, NDI, audio signal flow, Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Audition, and Crestron, Extron, or Q-SYS control environments.

Responsibilities

• Load, update, synchronize, and quality-check approved digital content across museum media players and interactive displays.
• Calibrate projectors, gallery audio, and theater systems; perform routine cleaning, firmware updates, and equipment-health checks.
• Troubleshoot failures across AV hardware, software, media players, signal paths, network routing, and centralized control systems.
• Support Government-approved content digitization, formatting, remastering, and accessible-media features, including captions, assistive-listening support, and audio descriptions.
• Support approved lectures and events with microphones, presentations, multi-camera streaming, and related AV systems.
• Coordinate with the IT Specialist and Exhibits Maintenance Technician on high-bandwidth video distribution, cable routing, discreet equipment integration, and exhibit uptime.

Skills

Multimedia installation

Project coordination

Portfolio development

Public-facing presentation

Education

Bachelor degree in digital media/film/video/audio engineering

Tools

HDMI

HDBaseT

SDI

NDI

Audio signal flow

Adobe Premiere

After Effects

Audition

Crestron

Extron

Q-SYS

Job description

LAUKOA in New London, Connecticut, is seeking an AV Media Specialist to maintain the National Coast Guard Museum’s galleries, theater, and interactive media experiences. The role emphasizes reliability, accessibility, and presentation readiness while handling asset deployment and system calibration.

The candidate will troubleshoot AV hardware and software, support content digitization and captions, and assist with events.