Broadcast Automation Engineer

Job Title: Broadcast Automation Engineer

Location: West London, UK

Job Type: Full-time contract, 6 months

Work Model: Hybrid

Summary

This role focuses on automating gallery workflows for live broadcast environments, ensuring seamless support for live and near-live productions.

Responsibilities

Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot automated rundown-driven workflows, including:

• Vision mixer control
• Graphics triggering
• Clip and source recall

Support live and near-live productions, ensuring automation behaves predictably during editorial and time‑critical changes.

Participate in testing, validation, and operational readiness for automation updates, templates, and gallery changes.

Essential

• Strong hands‑on experience with Ross OverDrive and Caprica in live broadcast environments
• Proven understanding of newsroom‑to‑gallery workflows using OpenMedia, Ross Inception, and iNews
• Deep understanding of MOS workflows and editorial metadata flow
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across editorial, automation, and gallery layers during live output

Desirable

• Experience in news production environments
• Understanding of how graphics systems (VizRT, Chyron, Unity) integrate with studio automation
• Familiarity with template‑based automation design and gallery standardisation
• Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS) and modern operational practices

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