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Broadcast Automation Engineer – Live Production
We are seeking an experienced Broadcast Automation Engineer to support and enhance automated gallery workflows for live and near-live broadcast productions. This role is central to ensuring newsroom-driven automation operates reliably, predictably, and at pace in time-critical editorial environments.
You will work across editorial, automation, and gallery systems, helping production teams deliver seamless live output while diagnosing and resolving workflow issues under pressure.
The role
As a Broadcast Automation Engineer, you will configure, maintain, test, and support rundown-driven studio automation workflows. You will ensure that technical systems respond accurately to editorial changes and that gallery teams can rely on automation throughout live transmission.
Key responsibilities include:
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot automated gallery workflows in live broadcast environments.
- Support rundown-driven automation, including vision mixer control, graphics triggering, clip playback, source recall, and studio device control.
- Work closely with editorial, production, gallery, and engineering teams to ensure workflows operate effectively from the newsroom through to transmission.
- Provide hands-on support during live and near-live productions, responding quickly to technical issues and last-minute editorial changes.
- Diagnose faults across newsroom, MOS, automation, graphics, and gallery-control layers.
- Participate in testing, validation, and operational-readiness activities for automation updates, templates, workflow changes, and gallery upgrades.
- Help improve workflow resilience, consistency, documentation, and gallery standardisation.
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Essential experience
- Strong practical experience with Ross OverDrive and Caprica in a live broadcast or production environment.
- Proven knowledge of newsroom-to-gallery workflows using OpenMedia, Ross Inception, and iNews.
- Deep understanding of MOS workflows, newsroom integration, and editorial metadata flow.
- Experience supporting live output, with the ability to remain calm and effective during time-critical incidents.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across editorial, automation, control-room, and gallery systems.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, production staff, journalists, and editorial users.
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Desirable experience
- Experience working in a news-production or rolling-news environment.
- Understanding of how graphics platforms such as VizRT, Chyron, and Unity integrate with studio automation workflows.
- Familiarity with template-based automation design, workflow governance, and gallery standardisation.
- Exposure to AWS or cloud-based technologies.
- Awareness of modern operational practices, including structured testing, release validation, incident management, and continuous improvement.
What we’re looking for
You will be a practical, detail-oriented broadcast technology professional who understands the realities of live television production. You will be comfortable working at the intersection of editorial and engineering, able to investigate issues quickly, explain technical topics clearly, and make sound decisions when live output is at stake.
This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in the reliability and evolution of modern live broadcast automation workflows.
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