A globally leading consumer device company headquartered in Cupertino, CA is seeking an elite-level Video Broadcast Engineer to support a high-profile global live broadcast. This is a zero-tolerance-for-failure environment delivering to multi-million concurrent viewers worldwide. The right candidate arrives ready to execute from day one, thrives in high-stakes broadcast environments, and holds themselves to the same bar we hold this event: extraordinary.
Responsibilities:
Pre-Event (Weeks 1–5)
- Review existing transmission workflows and failsafe plans; identify risks and recommend updates
- Validate all redundancy, failover, and backup procedures
- Review, update, and test existing encoding configuration files and their execution
- Prepare a detailed run-of-show checklist
- Participate in all pre-show tests and platform validations
- Assist with content QC to confirm proper asset delivery through all transmission pipelines
During the Event (Week 5/6)
- Operate HLS encoders for looping test cycles, platform tests, rehearsals, and the live show
- Continuously monitor the full signal path from Encoder to CDN boundary
- Verify quality and health of encoding, delivery, and encoders in real time
- Validate player output and behavior across multiple platforms
- Serve as Point of Contact for the CDN team
- Execute failover procedures as needed; provide real-time technical guidance
- Manage state changes to the .com player
- Perform test encodes and segment preparation for VOD
- Maintain live incident logs throughout the broadcast
- Assist with HLS VOD upload to CDN
Post-Event (Week 6)
- Deliver a technical debrief and report documenting lessons learned
- Restore all media and resources to archival locations
- Complete all required documentation to GitHub and NAS
- Perform any post-event asset corrections, including re-encodes or content replacement
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in online broadcast / live streaming operations at organizations that regularly deliver to >5 million concurrent viewers internationally
- Deep, expert-level command of HLS, including advanced manifest manipulation, multi-variant playlist generation, and adaptive bitrate (ABR) optimization
- Proven, recent operational experience with both on-premises and cloud-based encoding systems. On-prem AWS
- Elemental experience is critical
- Understanding of CDN behavior as it relates to encoding and packaging output, including packaging, downstream caching, origin configuration and ingest design.
- Demonstrated experience deploying and operating real-time stream health monitoring systems — dashboards, telemetry, alerting across HLS manifest health, segment availability, bitrate laddering, and viewer QoE metrics
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of accessibility and subtitle formats: WebVTT, TTML, CEA-608/708
- Familiarity with audio broadcast standards including Dolby Atmos and multi-channel formats
- Comfort coordinating with international partners across varying technical levels
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 weeks
Work Location: Cupertino, CA (onsite)
Pay rate: $141.00 - $156.00/ph (DOE)
No 3rd party agencies allowed and no C2C allowed
Abel Lara | 408.550.2800 x119
Abel@OSIengineering.com
