Broadcast Engineer, Technical Operations

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life, showcasing our products, services and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events, this team is charged with managing the end-to-end planning, production, in person experiences and all the unique details that make these events special. The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design, management, operations, broadcast, and production. We’re looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative fields. If that’s you, then your next home may be here! We're seeking a hands-on senior broadcast engineer to work across permanent facilities and temporary event environments. You'll work at the intersection of traditional broadcast engineering and modern IP media systems, helping ensure the technical systems that carry video, audio, and data from source to screen are ready, reliable, and resilient when it matters most. Your work is directly visible, in the clarity of a signal path during a live keynote, in the run-book that guides a team through a flawless remote production, and in the infrastructure decisions that shape how Apple communicates at scale.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on broadcast engineering experience in live events, broadcast facilities, production operations, or similarly demanding media environments.
• Experience operating or supporting one or more broadcast platforms such as Imagine, Evertz, TAG, Providius, EVS, AWS Elemental, Ateme, Appear, or Nimbra.
• Strong working knowledge of IP media transport technologies, including SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS IS-04/05, JPEG-XS, SRT, AES67 and Dante.
• Understand IP networking in a broadcast context, including multicast, PTP/IEEE 1588, VLANs, QoS, IGMP.
• Hands-on experience with network infrastructure in a broadcast, media, or production environment.
• Comfortable administering, troubleshooting, and supporting Linux and macOS systems used in broadcast operations.
• Can diagnose complex signal, network, timing, and system issues under live production conditions.
• Use sound judgment to balance technical risk, production impact, and operational continuity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud media services or hybrid workflows, including AWS MediaConnect or related platforms.
• Familiarity with VMware virtualization supporting broadcast or media applications.
• Background supporting corporate events, technology-sector events, product launches, town halls, or executive communications.
• Experience contributing to technical operations center buildouts, facility upgrades, or infrastructure migrations.
• Scripting or automation experience with Python, Bash, or similar tools applied to broadcast infrastructure.
• Familiarity with professional broadcast communications systems, including intercom, IFB, and program audio distribution.
• Experience with Arista network infrastructure in a broadcast, media or production environment.

Responsibilities

• Provides hands-on engineering support for broadcast facilities, transmission operation centers, and event production environments.
• Works across live production, infrastructure readiness, signal routing, media transport, encoding, monitoring, and troubleshooting, with a strong focus on IP-based media workflows.
• Partners with production, engineering, infosec, operations, vendors, and cross-functional teams to plan, deploy, operate, and maintain systems that support high-visibility events.
• Requires sound technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to stay focused under live production conditions.
• Comfortable moving between rack-level work, system configuration, documentation, real-time troubleshooting, and longer-term infrastructure improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed