Transmission Compression Engineer

Role
Support of 24/7 365 television transmission facilities which provide primary network distribution and contribution resources to the News, Sports, and Entertainment divisions of Warner Bros. Discovery. The support functions include network restoral, problem diagnoses, quality control, preventive maintenance, installation, and documentation of sophisticated television transmission systems. As a Transmission Compression Engineer, you will be responsible for the setup, configuration, and testing of new transport systems, as well as the maintenance of existing transport systems. You will also be expected to provide documentation of signal flow and procedures to support workflow. Participation in 24/7 shift coverage is expected. Interface with Warner Bros. Discovery engineering groups, end users, and personnel from Warner Bros. Discovery companies as required.

Responsibilities

Maintenance – troubleshooting, repair, calibration, and preventative maintenance of equipment and systems.

Projects – participation in the planning, installation and integration of new or replacement equipment and systems; may act as lead on smaller projects.

Quality Control – ensuring outgoing and incoming signals and content are of the highest quality by applying best business practices; quality control of installations equipment and documentation utilized by the terminal gear rooms.

Customer Service – providing the highest quality of customer service to primary customers including Teleport operations, Distribution technology, CNN satellites/SNG, TEN and the TBS networks.

Qualifications

5 to 8 years Compression Engineering Experience or Equivalent

4‑Year Technical Degree or 2‑year technical degree with equivalent experience

Understands networking/routing protocols such as UDP, unicast, multicast

Understanding of Video standards related to transport (SD/HDSDI, ASI, IP and other compression formats)

Proficient in AutoCAD and Visio

MPEG encoding systems

Experience with Cisco, Arris and Harmonic

Desirable Skills

Studio, Network Operations and Digital Television distribution

IT Data certifications

Cable TV and IPTV experience

Remote Monitoring and Control System experience (SNMP based)

Good working knowledge of MPEG‑2, MPEG‑4, J2k, multiplexes and conditional access

Must possess the legal right to work in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Employment Statement
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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