Senior Broadcast Engineer – Live Sports & IP Production (On-Site)

NBCUniversal Intl.; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 87,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal’s Stamford facility seeks a Senior Broadcast Production Engineer to maintain reliability across NBC Sports production environments and lead complex troubleshooting, system design, and technology projects. The role blends hands-on day-of-air support with systems engineering and cross-team leadership.

You will translate production requirements into reliable technical solutions, mentor engineers, and drive improvements in IP media workflows and orchestration for high-availability

Qualifications

• Five+ years of progressively responsible experience in broadcast engineering, production engineering or a comparable live-production technology environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Communications or related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot integrated broadcast production systems in high-pressure environments.
• Experience leading system installations, upgrades, integration, testing or commissioning.
• Strong knowledge of video, audio, timing, synchronization, signal transport, monitoring and production-control-room workflows.
• Strong understanding of IP networking and media-over-IP production technologies.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex or high-impact issues affecting live and recorded productions.
• Lead advanced troubleshooting across video, audio, communications, replay, graphics, routing, monitoring, compute, storage and network-connected production systems.
• Provide senior day-of-air engineering coverage and coordinate technical response during production-impacting incidents.
• Lead technical projects from requirements definition and design through installation, integration, testing, commissioning and handoff.
• Develop system architecture, signal-flow diagrams, equipment specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate workflows and recommend improvements to increase reliability and efficiency.
• Lead maintenance windows, upgrades, capacity expansions and technology refreshes with minimal production disruption.
• Work with Network Engineering and IT to support IP media environments (SMPTE ST 2110, multicast transport, synchronization).
• Coordinate work by system integrators, manufacturers and vendors; validate deliverables and oversee testing.
• Perform root-cause analysis after incidents and implement corrective actions and documentation.
• Develop engineering standards, SOPs, as-built drawings and recovery procedures.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and provide technical training.
• Represent Production Engineering in cross-functional discussions.
• Support budgeting and lifecycle recommendations for assigned systems.
• Participate in rotating schedule and on-call coverage.

Skills

Broadcast engineering

Troubleshooting

System design

IP networking

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Communications or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Visio

Lucidchart

Sony equipment

EVS

Evertz

Grass Valley

RTS

Calrec

Tektronix

Leader

Avid

Chyron

Job description

NBCUniversal’s Stamford facility seeks a Senior Broadcast Production Engineer to maintain reliability across NBC Sports production environments and lead complex troubleshooting, system design, and technology projects. The role blends hands-on day-of-air support with systems engineering and cross-team leadership.

You will translate production requirements into reliable technical solutions, mentor engineers, and drive improvements in IP media workflows and orchestration for high-availability