Apple AR/VR Job | Senior Media Production Engineer
Job（岗位）: Senior Media Production Engineer
Citys（岗位城市）: Newport Beach, CA, California, United States
Date（发布日期）: 2023-5-10
Summary（岗位介绍）
Apple is looking for a Senior Media Production Engineer with a track record of delivering outstanding video, audio and IT support for live event productions. The Senior Media Production Engineer will be responsible for the technical operation and management of various OB trucks, flight packs, production operations centers, studios and other media production systems. The candidate will be the go-to technical resource for identifying future technical trends to ensure the content creation systems always exceed the creative, technical and rigorous quality standards required of Apple projects.
If working with cutting edge technology and supporting exciting projects sounds familiar and exciting, this could be the opportunity you’ve been working towards!
Qualifications（岗位要求）
5+ years of experience working in the following areas:
Operating, architecting, or managing professional grade production systems such as OB production trucks, flight packs, video and/or audio production facilities, transmission operation centers, or other technical environments during high profile sports, music, or entertainment productions.
Hands on operational experience and technical expertise working with UHD, HDR, HFR, and IP based video and audio production technology.
Technical commissioning, user operation, and in-situ troubleshooting of media production hardware, software and protocols typical of media production environments.
Conducting quality control of all production elements such as camera and audio feeds, serial and IP data, graphics, and encoded contribution feeds.
Excellent troubleshooting skills while under time and resource constraints with strong prioritization and triage skills.
Working in international, highly metropolitan, and underdeveloped locations as key technical staff. This role may require *50% travel both domestically & internationally. It will be physically demanding at all times.
Description（岗位职责）
The Senior Media Production Engineer will join a team of technical and creative stakeholders working on a wide variety of projects for Apple. In support of these efforts, this individual will exercise their previous production engineering expertise for initial system design, deployment, on-site user operation, and post-operational support of various media production technologies used to enable content capture.
You will work closely with the production technology, R&D, and content teams to ensure the creative vision is well supported by exciting and cutting edge technical solutions. As a primary technical resource for each event, the candidate will find themselves actively involved with the technical care & operation of mobile OB units, flight packs, audio production infrastructure, video production infrastructure, operations centers, and other media production systems in highly dynamic and time critical production environments. The candidate will be expected to troubleshoot complex technological and creative workflow challenges in real time, with an ability to clearly communicate issues and offer solutions on the fly.
The Senior Media Production Engineer will also serve as a domain expert and a savvy, hands-on technician in their field, keeping up on the latest and greatest in media production technology to engineer improvements to current workflow, bring up of R&D and test systems, as well as work with a wide variety of internal and external engineering teams and technology vendors to drive innovation in next generation media production capabilities.
Additional Requirements（额外要求）
- Experience architecting, operating, or servicing live broadcast production facilities.
- Experience working with professional grade production tools included but not limited to: video switchers, media routers, graphics engines, audio consoles, comms systems, video replay, NLE & DAW systems, media encoders & transport mechanisms, monitoring & telemetry, fiber based A/V transport.
- Strong familiarity with SMPTE 2110 IP audio and video workflows.
- Strong IT skills as applicable to typical media production engineering tasks - Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP networking and standards, IPv4 addressing, multicast routing, PTP, SNMP, and IGMP/PIM.
- Experience with ‘ground up’ system design and system integration.
- Experience in REMI (remote integration) based production environments.
- QC of media signals in a media production environment for noise, compression artifacts, sensor based issues, quantization errors, aliasing, audio/video sync, etc.
