Duration: (~3 weeks / ~145 hours)
Location: Cupertino, CA
Engagement: May 26 - June 11, 2026
Schedule: Week 1: 10-hour days, business hours | Weeks 2-3: Extended days up to 14 hours, including evenings and weekend
About This Engagement
Client's Worldwide Events and Experiences team is seeking a contract Broadcast/Transmission Engineer to support a high-profile global live broadcast. This is a zero-failure environment delivering to concurrently to multiple platforms worldwide.
This is a highly focused, operationally intensive ~3-week engagement. You'll work directly alongside our facility EIC, supporting transmission infrastructure, signal path validation, and failover readiness. The right candidate has solid hands-on broadcast experience, is eager to contribute in a high-stakes environment and is ready to execute from day one under direction from senior engineering staff.
Facility & equipment familiarization, transmission workflow review, failsafe plan review, pre event rehearsals
Redundancy procedures documentation (Mon - Wed)
Signal path testing & validation checks (Thu - Sun)
Event: Live broadcast & signal monitoring (Mon)
Post-event support and wrap-up documentation (Tue - Thu)
Event Week Detail: The 'event' spans Thursday 6/4 through Monday 6/8. The first 4 days (6/4-6/7) are asset preparation,
staging, and signal validations. 6/8 is the live broadcast day. Extended and overnight availability will be required for signal path
monitoring and failover readiness.
What You'll Do
Pre-Event (Weeks 1-2)
- Review existing transmission workflows, signal routing, and failsafe plans alongside the facility EIC; flag potential infrastructure risks for review
- Assist in validating redundancy and backup procedures across the complete signal path - from source through destination
- (equipment room patches, feeds to various on-campus locations)
- Help document signal routing diagrams, failover procedures, and recovery timelines
- Support preparation of run-of-show checklists for signal monitoring and failover execution
- Assist with end-to-end signal path tests, including backup/redundancy activation and restoration
- Work closely with the EIC/Facility Engineer to verify network stability, fiber receives/sends to remote sites, and backup
- circuits
- Participate in all pre-show tests, rehearsals, and platform validations to help confirm signal quality and integrity
During the Event (Week 3)
- Monitor signal path health continuously from source through all delivery points, escalating anomalies to the EIC
- Support real-time verification of transmission infrastructure status - equipment health, signal quality, delivery endpoints
- Assist in executing failover procedures as directed; maintain clear communication with the EIC and operations team
- Maintain live incident logs documenting all signal events, interventions, and resolutions
- Support output/ingress validation and platform-specific signal behavior across multiple delivery endpoints
Post-Event (Week 3)
- Complete incident logs and contribute to root cause analysis for any signal events
- Assist with restoring infrastructure and monitoring systems to baseline/archival state
- Complete required documentation to team systems
Required Qualifications
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in broadcast transmission or signal engineering, with exposure to live event or live
- broadcast workflows
- Working knowledge of redundant transmission systems, including familiarity with failover procedures and backup circuits
- Solid understanding of broadcast signal distribution concepts - signal routing, encoding, and transmission protocols
- Familiarity with video signal formats and transmission standards - including SDI, fiber optics, IP-based signal transport,
- and real-time monitoring tools
- Experience working with broadcast-grade monitoring systems - dashboards, signal health metrics (jitter, latency, packet
- loss), and basic incident response
- Comfort operating in fast-paced, high-pressure broadcast environments - live event experience is a strong plus
- Ability to follow and contribute to run-of-show documentation and incident logs
- The Right Person
- This role is a great fit for a broadcast engineer who has solid technical foundations and experience working in a world-class live
- event environment - with experienced senior engineers alongside you every step of the way. The right candidate:
- Has real-world, hands-on experience with signal path workflows and broadcast transmission systems
- Is collaborative and communicative - comfortable taking direction from the EIC and proactively flagging issues before
- they escalate
- Is ready for operational intensity - extended days, high focus, and live event pressure
- Is thorough and detail-oriented - understands that clean documentation and clear communication are as important as
- technical skill
- Understands that signal is the product - every technical decision is ultimately judged by the viewer's experienc