Systems Engineer - One Media

$85,000 - $100,000/Yr

Sinclair Broadcast Group - Cockeysville, MD

Full-time - Entry Level

Cockeysville, MD

101-250 employees

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Systems Engineer will join the ONE Media Lab team to innovate, build, and support a next-generation IP broadcast platform. This full-time in-office role focuses on supporting ATSC 3 and mobile initiatives, ensuring the platform's robustness and compatibility with future technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support Sinclair's ATSC 3 and mobile initiatives in the US and abroad.
• Support verification, validation and conformance testing for ATSC 3 specifications and receivers.
• Participate and contribute to the ONE Media Lab innovation and ideation process.
• Develop requirements and acceptance plans for qualifying software and station equipment.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, virtual machines, and management tools to keep lab servers/broadcast air chains up to date.
• Develop, maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies for the Lab.
• Support plug-fests, interop events and integration in the lab.
• Participate and support technology demonstrations at key events (NAB, CES, etc.).
• Participate in standards and other industry alignment activities at A3SA, ATSC, IETF, W3C and 3GPP.
• Support other ONE Media initiatives.

Requirements

• BS degree or equivalent experience
• Familiar with broadcast TV systems
• Understand concepts with test strategy and test plan development
• Familiar with the ATSC 3 and 3GPP standards
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Familiar with Linux/Unix and Android environments
• Familiar with video streaming technologies
• Good communication skills and a team player.

Benefits

• Participation in a retirement plan
• Life and disability insurance
• Health, dental and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• 15 paid vacation days
• 2 paid personal days
• 9 paid holidays
• 40 hours of paid sick leave
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan