Senior IP Broadcast Engineer - Live Event Operations

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Stock awards

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Apple seeks a hands‑on senior broadcast engineer to support IP-based media workflows across permanent facilities and remote event environments. You’ll work at the intersection of traditional broadcast engineering and modern IP systems, ensuring reliable signal paths for live keynote events and scalable infrastructure decisions.

You’ll collaborate with production, engineering, infosec, and vendors while maintaining systems, documenting runbooks, and guiding improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on broadcast engineering experience in live events, broadcast facilities, production operations, or similarly demanding media environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot IP-based broadcast systems within facility transmission operation centers.
• Deploy to remote event sites to support setup, signal path validation, system commissioning, and live engineering operations.
• Engineer and support end-to-end IP media workflows, including video and audio routing, ingest, play-out, encoding, contribution, and distribution feeds.
• Maintain and troubleshoot IP and non-IP media systems and technologies.
• Support broadcast network infrastructure and related services.
• Operate and maintain systems across broadcast platforms.
• Support Linux- and macOS-based systems used in broadcast operations, along with VMware-virtualized broadcast applications.
• Perform preventive maintenance, firmware management, equipment validation, and lifecycle planning for broadcast infrastructure.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including signal flow diagrams, IP addressing plans, operational run-books, and support procedures.
• Resolve real-time technical issues during live events with clear escalation, communication, and decision-making.
• Evaluate emerging IP broadcast technologies and help guide practical improvements to the team’s infrastructure and workflows.

Skills

IP broadcast

SMPTE ST 2110

IP networking

Troubleshooting

Live production

Tools

Imagine

Evertz

AWS Elemental

VMware

Ateme

Job description

Apple seeks a hands‑on senior broadcast engineer to support IP-based media workflows across permanent facilities and remote event environments. You’ll work at the intersection of traditional broadcast engineering and modern IP systems, ensuring reliable signal paths for live keynote events and scalable infrastructure decisions.

You’ll collaborate with production, engineering, infosec, and vendors while maintaining systems, documenting runbooks, and guiding improvements.